Atlas of Informal Settlement

Understanding Self-Organized Urban Design

Dovey, Kim (Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Melbourne, Oostrum, Matthijs van (University of Melbourne, Shafique, Tanzil (University of Melbourne, Chatterjee, Ishita (University of Melbourne - Atlas of Informal Settlement

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While often seen as unplanned or spontaneous, informal settlement is better understood as a mode of production: a co-evolution of architecture, urban design and planning that embodies informal rules and shapes urban development. The Atlas of Informal Settlement is a comparative study of the spatial logic of informal settlement based on mapping and analysing the evolution of urban form (morphogenesis) in 51 contemporary settlements across the planet - the first of its kind and a fundamental change in thinking for urban studies and built environment professionals. Each of the 51 case studies uses maps and aerial photographs to examine key stages of development, showing how informal settlement adapts to different contexts of political economy, topography, culture, climate and land tenure; revealing a complex range of actors from settlers and states to land mafias and pirate developers. It demonstrates the range of design processes and formal outcomes; how the informal becomes formalized and vice versa. Interspersed with short chapters introducing key theoretical concepts, the Atlas shows how such practices may or may not produce 'slums', and how settlement is already a form of 'upgrading'. Informal settlement is the primary mode of production of affordable housing and neighbourhood infrastructure within cities of the Global South; with detailed mapping and profiling of 51 settlements this book shows how such urban morphologies emerge in terms of architecture, urban design and planning.

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Writer: Dovey, Kim (Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Melbourne, Oostrum, Matthijs van (University of Melbourne, Shafique, Tanzil (University of Melbourne, Chatterjee, Ishita (University of Melbourne
Title: Atlas of Informal Settlement
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 304
Weight: 860 gr

EAN: 9781350295032
Dimensions: 246 x 192 x 18 mm
Binding format: Paperback / softback

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Understanding Self-Organized Urban Design

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