Rethinking the Informal City : : Critical Perspectives from Latin America / / ed. by Felipe Hernández, Peter Kellett, Lea Knudsen Allen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• HerausgeberIn: Allen, Lea Knudsen,; Hernández, Felipe,; Kellett, Peter,
• MitwirkendeR: Brandão, Zeca,; Brillembourg, Alfredo,; Fiori, Jorge,; Greene, Margarita,; Hernández, Felipe,; Jirón, Paola,; Jáuregui, Jorge Mario,; Kellett, Peter,; Klumpner, Hubert,; Lara, Fernando Luiz,; Lima, Zeuler R.,; Mehrotra, Rahul,; Pallamin, Vera M.,; Ramírez, Ronaldo,; Rojas, Eduardo,; Segre, Roberto,; Spencer, Annalisa,; Vekstein, Claudio,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Remapping Cultural History ; 11
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

Latin American cities have always been characterized by a strong tension between what is vaguely described as their formal and informal dimensions. However, the terms formal and informal refer not only to the physical aspect of cities but also to their entire socio-political fabric. Informal cities and settlements exceed the structures of order, control and homogeneity that one expects to find in a formal city; therefore the contributors to this volume - from such disciplines as architecture, urban planning, anthropology, urban design, cultural and urban studies and sociology - focus on alternative methods of analysis in order to study the phenomenon of urban informality. This book provides a thorough review of the work that is currently being carried out by scholars, practitioners and governmental institutions, in and outside Latin America, on the question of informal cities.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Reimagining the Informal in Latin America -- Part I: Critical Perspectives -- Chapter 2 The Form of the Informal: Investigating Brazilian Self-Built Housing Solutions -- Chapter 3 Informal Practices in the Formal City: Housing, Disagreement and Recognition in Downtown São Paulo -- Chapter 4 The Informal Architecture of Brasilia: An Analysis of the Contemporary Urban Role of its Satellite Settlements -- Chapter 5 The Evolution of Informal Settlements in Chile: Improving Housing Conditions in Cities -- Chapter 6 Housing for the Poor in the City Centre: A Review of the Chilean Experience and a Challenge for Incremental Design -- Part II: Critical Practices -- Chapter 7 Rules of Engagement: Caracas and the Informal City -- Chapter 8 Integrated Informality in the Barrios of Havana -- Chapter 9 Formal–Informal Connections in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro: The Favela-Bairro Programme -- Chapter 10 Spatial Strategies and Urban Social Policy: Urbanism and Poverty Reduction in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro -- Chapter 11 Urban and Social Articulation: Megacities, Exclusion and Urbanity -- Chapter 12 Public-City in Manifesto: The Formal City In-formed by Public Interest -- Notes on Contributors -- Index