Resilient Cities in the Global South: Rethinking Informality in Urban Planning and Design [Hardcover]

This book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to examine how diverse social and spatial behaviours within informal urban environments, particularly in developing countries, can provide fresh insights for robust urban planning and development.?It? positions informality as a dialogue for enabling resilience.

List of Figures. Acknowledgements. List of Contributors. Foreword By Nezar AlSayyad. 1 Informality, resilience, and dialogue: Towards an alternative southern framework. PART 1 North-South Relations. 2 A marginalised spatial structure in Melbournes public housing estates: Evaluating public spaces, infrastructure, and citizen participation. 3 Accessing the city via informal urbanism: Kampungs, multiculturalism, and kebabs. 4 Reporting from the front: How socio-economic nonconformities revolutionise architecture as a political act. 5 Re-conceptualising the relationship between informalities, livelihoods, and governance towardsurban resilience. PART 2 Grassroots. 6 Never let a good crisis go to waste : Lessons on dialogical transformations of public agency and space. 7 Havanas informal settlements: Strengthening resilience through grassroots infrastructures. 8 Resilient co-production of peripheral popular urbanisation in Buenos Aires Metropolitan Region: The case of Guernica land reappropriation. PART 3 Institutional Strategies Professional Alliances. 9 Resilience to colonial modernity: Shaping slum rehabilitations in Pune, India. 10 Urban informality in the making: Public actors spatial strategies in Gimpo, South Korea. 11 Architecture of engagement: Site, action, and possibilities for reinvention. 12 Revisiting social resilience in informal settlements: The strength and the limits of Parais?polis community action during the COVID-19 pandemic in S?o Paulo. 13 Conceptual implications: An emerging urban informality dialogical framework ?