Overview
- Expands the notion of “informality” toward an interdisciplinary territory
- Discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in informal settlements in the Global South
- Presents sections dedicated to Latin America, US–Mexico Borderlands, Asia, and Africa
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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 correspondencesbetween 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.
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Table of contents (42 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Informalities—An Overview
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Latin America
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Informality and the City
Book Subtitle: Theories, Actions and Interventions
Editors: Gregory Marinic, Pablo Meninato
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99926-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99925-4Published: 06 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99928-5Published: 07 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-99926-1Published: 03 October 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 654
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations, 224 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Public Policy, Urban Studies/Sociology