Informal Urbanization in Latin America: Collaborative Transformations of Public Spaces

ISBN-13: 9780367545901 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 182 str.

Christian Werthmann

Opis

Informal Urbanization in Latin America investigates prevailing strategies for addressing informal settlements, which started to shift away from large-scale slum clearance to on-site upgrading in Latin America over the last forty years, by improving its public spaces, infrastructure and facilities.

Spis treści

Part I: Informal Neighborhoods – An Incomplete Taxonomy for a Diverse Universe  Part II: Lessons from Latin America  Case Study I: Buenos Aires – Step by Step  Interview with Flavio Janches and Max Rohm  Case Study II: Rio de Janeiro – Equality through Public Space  Interview with Lu Petersen  Case Study III: São Paulo – Protecting Water  Interview with Elisabete França and Marta Maria Lagreca de Sales  Case Study IV: Medellín – Scaling Mountains  Interview with Alejandro Echeverri  Part III: And Now?

O autorze

Christian Werthmann is a Professor of Landscape Architecture and Design at the Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany, with extensive professional and academic experience in Europe and the United States. During his time as an Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (2004–2012), he started to investigate informal urbanization and disaster zones with a focus on Latin America. His investigations have led to numerous publications, exhibitions and conferences since. In the past few years, he published with, Jessica Bridger, Metropolis Nonformal (2016), curated the "Dangerous Landscapes" conference in Hannover (2017) and co-curated the exhibition "Out There. Landscape Architecture on Global Terrain" at the Architectural Museum Munich (2017). His latest research project, Inform@Risk, is concerned with the development of integrative early warning systems in the barrios of Medellín (2020).