Beyond Houses : Architectural Thinking and Practice for Climate, Disaster and Forced Displacement Crises / edited by A. Nuno Martins, Carmen Mendoza-Arroyo, Liliane Hobeica, Jorge León, Adib Hobeica.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nuno Martins, A., editor.

Series:

The Urban Book Series, 2365-7588

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural disasters.

Geography.

Sociology, Urban.

Natural Hazards.

Urban Sociology.

Local Subjects:

Natural Hazards.

Geography.

Urban Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2024.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2024.

Summary:

This book delves into the complexities of urban crises, focusing on the efforts of researchers and practitioners who confront precarious housing and forced displacement. Originating from the 8th International Conference on Building Resilience (convened in November 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal), this book examines challenges across diverse contexts and geographies, including Chile, India, Kenya, Mexico, Portugal, and Syria. Structured in three parts, the book's 12 chapters address disaster prevention and recovery, humanitarian architecture, and issues related to housing, migration, and urban forced displacement. The narratives emphasize vulnerabilities, community-driven design, and cross-cultural perspectives, comprehensively reviewing global urban planning, slum upgrading, and incremental housing strategies. The contributions engage readers with practical insights for mitigating urban vulnerability and intellectual analyses that consider the complexities of life amid systemic injustices. Ultimately, the authors suggest integrating architectural practice with social work within communities to address intricate urban housing challenges.

Contents:

Researching crises and solutions with urgency and agency: An introduction

Part 1: Mainstreaming risk reduction in recovery and reconstruction

Disentangling governance for nature-based restoration projects

Female leadership and everyday hazards: Care practices and solidarity networks in Campamento Dignidad

Structural measures for wildfire risk reduction in informal contexts in Chile

Analyzing urban Tsunami evacuation through evacuees’ spatial behaviors

Part 2: Enhancing inclusion through humanitarian architecture

Integrating soft infrastructure in design to build community resilience in Puerto Rico

Can a gender perspective fulfill the end-user's needs in housing reconstruction projects?

Leaving the slum: International collaborative design initiatives to shape capabilities during resettlement

Architecture and incremental housing in climate change and pandemic times in Lisbon and Bhopal informal settings

Part 3: Disentangling urban forced displacement challenges

Displacement as precarious inhabiting: Care and repair at the urban margins

Improving post-conflict self-recovery programming: Addressing the complexities in Syria

Waiting in non-places: The spatialization of displacement discourses

Can urban factors enhance the integration of asylum seekers in cities?.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Nuno Martins, A. Beyond Houses

ISBN:

9783031614033