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Urban Informality and the Built Environment
Infrastructure, Exchange and Image
Urban Informality and the Built Environment demonstrates the value of greater and more diverse forms of engagement of built-environment disciplines with what constitutes urban informality and its politics. This collection lays forth a range of new methodologies to the study of urban informality, by exploring case studies from multiple geographies, including the creative place-making of street artists in Accra, the morphological evolution of urban Tirana, urban agriculture in la Habana, and social reproduction in Greece. Together these case studies offer ways to promote cross-fertilization between disciplines, lenses, geographies, and methodologies. Drawing on recent research by architects, planners, political scientists, geographers, and urban theorists, this book brings a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of informality and the built environment in diverse contexts.
226 pages | 17 color plates, 3 halftones, 23 line drawings | 6.14 x 9.21
Architecture: Architecture--Criticism
Table of Contents
List of figures and tables
List of contributors
Series editors’ preface
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: foregrounding the built environment
Nerea Amorós Elorduy, Nikhilesh Sinha and Colin Marx
2 Informality and infrastructure
Swati Chattopadhyay
3 Informalities of exchange
Fran Tonkiss
4 The image of informal settlements
Kim Dovey
5 The role of change maker painters: graffiti and street art in Accra, Ghana
Claire Tunnacliffe
6 Informal everyday water infrastructures in the in-between territories of Galicia
Lucia Cerrada Morato
7 A morphogenetic approach to informality: the case of post-socialist Tirana
Blerta Dino
8 Informal structures of welfare: emerging spaces of social reproduction in Athens
Isabel Gutiérrez Sánchez
9 Rhythmanalysis as exploration of urban informality in Havana, Cuba Susan Fitzgerald
10 The death and life of Jian-Cheng Circle: a negative lesson to the built informality of urban places
Chin-Wei Chang
11 Informality as pedagogy: collective design in the Mariamma Nagar settlement
Nicola Antaki
12 Informality as an urban trend in mainstream architectural publications
Fani Kostourou and Paul Goodship
13 Conclusion: foregrounding positionality Nerea Amorós Elorduy, Nikhilesh Sinha and Colin Marx
Index