Resilient Cities in the Global South (eBook, ePUB)

Rethinking Informality in Urban Planning and Design
Redaktion: Rajendran, Lakshmi Priya; Can, Aysegul; Odeleye, Nezhapi-Dellé

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Post-pandemic, cities face new challenges in adapting to global changes, while also addressing the needs, practices, and capabilities of diverse populations. Resilience, as a key factor, enables cities to adapt and transform in response to these challenges. Development driven by resilience is crucial for urban society's ability to adapt and evolve on multiple levels. However, in developed countries, increasingly standardised planning and development practices often hinder citizen engagement and participation, which are essential for building resilient cities.

This book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to examine how diverse social and spatial behaviours within informal urban environments, particularly in developing countries, can provide fresh insights for robust urban planning and development.

The book is structured in three parts: (1) North-South Relations - this part explores the global discourse on informality, highlighting its presence in both the Global North and South; (2) Grassroots - this part focusses on grassroots initiatives and community-driven resilience within urban informality; and (3) Institutional Strategies and Professional Alliances - the final part delves into the role of institutions and professional collaborations in shaping urban informality.

By presenting a range of perspectives and experiences, this book contributes to a unique Southern framework that positions informality as a dialogue for enabling resilience. It will appeal to a multidisciplinary audience, including professionals from fields such as sociology, history, environmental psychology, cultural studies, human geography, urban design and planning, architecture, and anthropology.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International license.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040382318
• Artikelnr.: 74923979

Autorenporträt

Lakshmi Priya Rajendran is Associate Professor in Environmental and Spatial Equity, Bartlett School of Architecture, The Bartlett Faculty of Built Environment, University College London (UCL), UK. Nezhapi-Dellé Odeleye is Associate Professor in Urban Design & Planning, and MSc Planning Course Director, School of Engineering and Built Environment, Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), Chelmsford, UK. Aysegul Can is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Institute of Regional Studies, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures. Acknowledgements. List of Contributors. Foreword By Nezar
AlSayyad. 1 Informality, resilience, and dialogue: Towards an alternative
southern framework. PART 1 North-South Relations. 2 A marginalised spatial
structure in Melbourne's public housing estates: Evaluating public spaces,
infrastructure, and citizen participation. 3 Accessing the city via
informal urbanism: Kampungs, multiculturalism, and kebabs. 4 Reporting from
the front: How socio-economic nonconformities revolutionise architecture as
a political act. 5 Re-conceptualising the relationship between
informalities, livelihoods, and governance towardsurban resilience. PART 2
Grassroots. 6 "Never let a good crisis go to waste": Lessons on dialogical
transformations of public agency and space. 7 Havana's informal
settlements: Strengthening resilience through grassroots infrastructures. 8
Resilient co-production of peripheral popular urbanisation in Buenos Aires
Metropolitan Region: The case of Guernica land reappropriation. PART 3
Institutional Strategies Professional Alliances. 9 Resilience to colonial
modernity: Shaping slum rehabilitations in Pune, India. 10 Urban
informality in the making: Public actors' spatial strategies in Gimpo,
South Korea. 11 Architecture of engagement: Site, action, and possibilities
for reinvention. 12 Revisiting social resilience in informal settlements:
The strength and the limits of Paraisópolis community action during the
COVID-19 pandemic in São Paulo. 13 Conceptual implications: An emerging
"urban informality dialogical framework"? Index.