Resilient Cities in the Global South : rethinking informality in urban planning and design / Lakshmi Priya Rajendran, Nezhapi-Dellé Odeleye, Ayşegül Can.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rajendran, Lakshmi Priya, author.

Odeleye, Nezhapi-Dellé, author.

Can, Ayşegül, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Social aspects.

Cities and towns.

Resilience (Ecology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages)

Edition:

1 ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Taylor & Francis, 2025.

Summary:

Post-pandemic cities face new challenges in adapting to global changes, while also addressing the needs, practices, and capabilities of diverse populations. Resilience, as a key factor, enables cities to adapt and transform in response to these challenges. Development driven by resilience is crucial for urban society's ability to adapt and evolve on multiple levels. However, in developed countries, increasingly standardised planning and development practices often hinder citizen engagement and participation, which are essential for building resilient cities. 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. The book is structured in three parts: 1. North-South Relations - This section explores the global discourse on informality, highlighting its presence in both the Global North and South.2. Grassroots - This part focuses on grassroots initiatives and community-driven resilience within urban informality.3. Institutional Strategies & Professional Alliances - The final section delves into the role of institutions and professional collaborations in shaping urban informality. By presenting a range of perspectives and experiences, the book contributes to a unique Southern framework that positions informality as a dialogue for enabling resilience. It will appeal to a multidisciplinary audience, including professionals from fields such as sociology, history, environmental psychology, cultural studies, human geography, urban design and planning, architecture, and anthropology.

Contents:

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 Melbourne's 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 Havana's 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 Paraisópolis community action during the COVID-19 pandemic in São Paulo. 13 Conceptual implications: An emerging "urban informality dialogical framework"? Index.

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ISBN:

1-04-038227-4

1-04-038231-2

9781003336709

OCLC:

1501647516