Urban Labyrinths

ISBN-13: 9781032504193 / Twarda / 2024 / 232 str.

USA) Marinic Gregory (University of Houston

Opis

Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America is a coauthored book that examines intervention initiatives in informal settlements in Latin American cities as social, spatial, architectural, and cultural processes.

Spis treści

List of figures

Foreword: Francesco M. Orsini

Acknowledgements

Introduction

            Migratory Waves

            Right to the City?

            Nomenclature

            Addressing Informality

            Bibliographic Antecedents

            Structure of the Book                                               

Chapter 1. Rio De Janeiro

            Slavery. Brazil's Enduring Legacy

            Towards a New Epistemology of Favelas

            The Favela-Bairro Program

            Jorge Jáuregui. ‘Everything had to be built’

            Favela Intervention Tactics. Urbanism, Architecture, and Landscape Design

            A Preemptive Balance of the Favela-Bairro Program 

Chapter 2. Medellín

            PRIMED: Laying the Foundations

            Sergio Fajardo's Citizen Commitment

            EDU and EPM: Redefining Governance

            Alejandro Echeverri and the Catalan Connection

            PUI: Towards an Urban Design Strategy for Informal Neighborhoods

            Case Study: PUI Nororiental

            Case Study: UVA de la Cordialidad

            Social Urbanism: Critiques and Recommendations

Chapter 3. São Paulo

A Distinctive Urban History

1980s, Brazil ‘Discovering’ Favelas

The Antonico Creek Project in Favela Paraisópolis

Upgrading Favelas in ‘the Corner of Heaven’

Devising Favela-intervention Mechanisms

Chapter 4. Buenos Aires

            The Persistence of the Grid

            The Emergence of the ‘Villas Miseria’ and the Policies of Eradication

            Social Sciences, Journalism, and the Visual Arts Acknowledging the ‘Villas Miseria’

            Urbanism Approximating Informality: Flavio Janches in Villa Tranquila

            Villa 31. A Bit of history

            On Housing, Civic Buildings, and Public Spaces

            Reasons for Optimism for a Fractured Country

Chapter 5. Tijuana

            When Illicitly Dictates Urban Growth

            A Laboratory of Postmodernity

            On Paradises, Border Walls, and Canyons

            Los Laureles Canyon

            Oscar Romo, Alter Terra and the Poetics of Recycling

            Cruz & Forman: Manufacturing Informality

            Community Stations Integrating Formal and Informal Processes

            Informality in Tijuana as a Differentiated Path

Chapter 6. Theoretical Considerations

            Informal Cities

            Informality in Art

            Hélio Oiticica: Aspiring to a Large Labyrinth

            The Esthetics of the Favela: Paola Berenstein

            Debating Intervention Approaches

            The Cathedrals of Our Time

Conclusions

Afterword: Zaida Muxí Martínez

Index

O autorze

Pablo Meninato, PhD is an architect, architectural critic, and educator. A native of Argentina, Meninato has practiced and taught architecture in Philadelphia, Buenos Aires, and Monterrey, Mexico. He is Associate Professor in the Temple University Tyler School of Art and Architecture where he teaches history, theory, and urban design.  

Gregory Marinic, PhD is Associate Professor in the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning SAID and Director of URBANIA, a grant-funded research lab. His current field research is based in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Lima, La Paz, and Guayaquil where it focuses on housing, urban design, informal settlements, and urban morphology.