Informality and the City: Theories, Actions and Interventions

ISBN-13: 9783030999254 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 654 str.

Gregory Marinic;Pablo Meninato

Opis

This book advances the agenda of informality as a transnational phenomenon, recognizing that contemporary urban and regional challenges need to be addressed at both local and global levels. This project may be considered a call for action. Its urgency derives from the impact of the pandemic combined with the effects of climate change in informal settlements around the world. While the notion of "the informal" is usually associated with the analysis and interventions in informal settlements, this book expands the concept of informality to acknowledge its interdisciplinary parameters. The book is geographically organized into five sections. The first part provides a conceptual overview of the notion of "the informal," serving as an introduction and reflection on the subject. The following sections are dedicated to the principal regions of the Global South-Latin America, US-Mexico Borderlands, Asia, and Africa-while considering the interconnections and correspondences between urbanism in the Global South and the Global North. This book offers a critical introduction to groundbreaking theories and design practices of informality in the built environment. It provides essential reading for scholars, professionals, and students in urban studies, architecture, city planning, urban geography, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, economics, and the arts. As a critical survey of informality, the book examines history, theory, and production across a range of informal practices and phenomena in urbanism, architecture, activism, and participatory design. Authored by a diverse and international cohort of leading educators, theorists, and practitioners, 45 chapters refine and expand the discourse surrounding informal cities.

Spis treści

Foreword: Miquel Adrià (Centro University, and Arquine)

Introduction: Gregory Marinic & Pablo Meninato (University of Cincinnati & Temple University)

1/ Informality: An Overview

1.1 “Red and Green”

Jorge Jauregui (Atelier Metropolitano)

1.2 “Everything but Housing”

Pablo Meninato (Temple University)

1.3 “Street-led citywide slum upgrading: addressing the challenges of slums in the post-covid-19 era”

Claudio Acioly (Claudio Acioly Jr)

1.4 “Meeting Unmet Expectations Revisited: Has Community-based/Government Collaboration for Urban

Infrastructure Changed in 30 Years?”

Carla Chifos (University of Cincinnati)

1.5 “Forms of Informal Urbanism”

Hesam Kamalipour (Cardiff University)

1.6 “Milano Potential City”

Jacopo Leveratto (Politecnico di Milano)

1.7 “Street-level Informality across the Atlantic – The Dichotomy between Intent and Control”

Conrad Kickert (University of Cincinnati)

1.8 Urban informalities during the Covid-19 Era: A Case Study of Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY

Deborah Schneiderman (Pratt Institute)

1.9 “Megacities: Fiction, Hyper-reality, Future” Dietmar Froehlich (University of Houston)

2/ Latin America

2.0 Introduction to the Latin America Region by Pablo Meninato & Gregory Marinic

2.1 “No Time to Lose: Fostering the Predominantly Informal City in Latin America”

David Gouverneur (University of Pennsylvania)

2.2 “Exploring Critical Urbanities: Knowledge Co-transfer for Fragmented Cities in Water landscapes”

Flavio Janches, Diego Sepulveda & Lisa Diedrich (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

2.3 “Towards Social Urbanism 2.0”

Sebastian Bustamante & Isabel Basombrío (EAFIT-URBAM)

2.4 “Listening Practices. Community Learning for a Social Architecture”

Gustavo Dieguez (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

2.5 “Hopeful Rebar: Speculating on Informality in Mexico City”

Gregory Marinic (University of Cincinnati) & Pablo Meninato (Temple University)

2.6 “Local Practice and Self-Construction: Barrio 31 as an Urban Laboratory”

Marcela Riva de Monti (Politecnico de Madrid)

2.7 “Limits of Urban Design in Slum-Upgrading Processes: The case of Parque Fernanda I, São Paulo”

Solange Carvalho (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)

2.8 “Informality and Infrastructural Development in Latin America: Challenges and Opportunities”

Gabriel Duarte and Renata Bertol (Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro)

2.9 “El Amate in Guatemala City. An Urban Intervention”

Cecilia Giusti & Maria Paula Perez

2.10 “Managing Impending Change: Redefining Touristification in Machuchal”

Ariel Vazquez (University of Pennsylvania)

3/ USA-Mexico Borderlands

3.0 Introduction to the USA-Mexico Borderlands Region by Pablo Meninato & Gregory Marinic

3.1 “Remittances in Mexico”

Tatiana Bilbao (Yale University and Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO)

3.2 “A Lesson of Hope: A Case Study on Community-based Self-built Homes in Tijuana”

Rene Peralta (University of Oklahoma and Fundacion Esperanza in Tijuana)

3.3 “Informality in South Texas: The Colonia Phenomenon”

Rafael Longoria (University of Houston)

3.4 “The Stigma of Informality, Disaster, and Environmental Justice in South Texas Colonias”

Danielle Rivera (University of Colorado, Boulder)

3.5 “Quasi-informality of Latino Vendor Markets on the Border”

Edna Ledesma (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

3.6 “Informal Occupancies: Unraveling Diverse Meaning-making Processes in Minnesota Homes”

Tasoulla Hadjiyanni (University of Minnesota)

3.7 “Informal Housing in the Mississippi Delta: Lessons from Latin America”

Silvina Lopez Barrera (Mississippi State University)

3.8 “Tanks, Wells, Tacos, and Pitches”

Susan Rogers (University of Houston)

4/ Asia

4.0 Introduction to the Asia Region by Gregory Marinic & Pablo Meninato

4.1 “Understanding ‘Free Form’ Micro-Morphology in Informal Settlements”

Paul Jones (University of Sydney)

4.2 “Informality and the Production of Public Space: Publicness in Indian Cities”

Vikas Mehta (University of Cincinnati)

4.3 “Desperate City Builders”

Jörg Rekittke (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)

4.4 “(in)Formal Land Delivery Processes”

Pranita Shrestha (University of Sydney)

4.5 “A Typology of Incremental Housing Adaptation in Informal Settlements”

Ninik Suhartini & Paul Jones (University of Sydney)

4.6 “Urban Informality Strategies through the Layers of Spatial Connectivity”

Yandi Andri Yatmo & Paramita Atmodiwirjo (Universitas Indonesia)

4.7 “Intersections of Informality and Neoliberalism in Philippine Cities”

Edson Cabalfin (Tulane University)

4.8 “Carnival Heterotopia and the Reinvention of the Informal Space”

Vahid Vahdat (Washington State University)

5/ Africa

5.0 Introduction to the Africa Region by Gregory Marinic & Pablo Meninato

5.1 “Theoretical Reflections on the Meaning of ‘Informal’ in Cities of the Global South”

Tomá Berlanda (University of Cape Town)

5.2 “Hotspots Network Strategy for a Metropolitan Agriculture Revolution Eluding Informality”

Antonella Contin, Pedro Ortiz, & Valentina Galiulo (Politecnico di Milano)

5.3 “Towards an Architecture of Civil Disobedience in the Upgrade of Informal Settlements”

Carin Combrinck, Gustav Muller, & Morné du Bois (University of Pretoria)

5.4 “Re-exploiting Informal Areas: Adapting the Urban Nexus Approach in the Greater Cairo Region”

Sahar Attia (Cairo University)

5.5 “Dreamers That Do – Incremental and Resident-led Upgrading in the Kibera Public Space Project”

Chelina Odbert, Joe Mulligan, Ibrahim Maina, & Jack Campbell Clause (KDI - Kounkuey Design Initiative)

5.6 “Seeking (trans)Disciplinary Relevance in the Informal City: Rebuilding Architectural Practice through

Community Engagement”

Rudolf Perold (Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town)

5.7 “Ponte City: Reconfiguring Modernism through Informality”

Gregory Marinic (University of Cincinnati)

5.8 “Obscured Innovations? Inventiveness in Collective Infrastructure Management in Accra, Ghana”

Seth Asare Okyere, Stephen Kofi Diko, Mowa Ebashi (Osaka University, University of Memphis)

Afterword: Pablo Vila (Temple University)

 

 

 

O autorze

Gregory Marinic, Ph.D., is an architectural theorist, scholar, educator, and practitioner. He is an associate professor in the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning SAID and Director of Urbania, a grant-funded research laboratory speculating on urban futures. His ongoing research examines cities in relation to obsolescence, informality, revitalization, adaptive reuse, publicness, and identity. Widely published in books and academic journals, his work seeks to advance critical discourse and interdisciplinary design practices that foster sustainability, resilience, and social justice.

Pablo Meninato, Ph.D., is an architect, architectural critic, and educator whose research focuses on the conception and development of the architectural project. He is an associate professor in the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. His current research investigates how various contemporary architects are developing original urban design tactics that enhance the quality of life in informal settlements across Latin America. A native of Argentina, Meninato has taught and practiced architecture in Philadelphia, Buenos Aires, and Monterrey. He has been widely published in books and journals across a range of topics in architecture and urbanism.