Rethinking the Informal City
Subtitle: Critical Perspectives from Latin America
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781845455828
Table of contents: title: List of Figures; title: Acknowledgements; title: Foreword by Rahul Mehrotra; title: Introduction: Reimagining the Informal in Latin America by Felipe Hernández and Peter Kellett
label: 1.; title: PART ONE: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES; title: The Form of the Informal: Investigating Brazilian Self-Built Housing Solutions by Fernando Luiz Lara
label: 2.; title: Informal Practices in the Formal City: Housing, Disagreement and Recognition in Downtown São Paulo by Zeuler R. Lima and Vera M. Pallamin
label: 3.; title: The Formal Architecture of Brasilia: An Analysis of the Contemporary Urban Role of its Satellite Settlements by Annalisa Spencer
label: 4.; title: The Evolution of Informal Settlements in Chile: Improving Housing Condition in Cities by Paola Jirón
label: 5.; title: Housing for the Poor in the City Centre: A Review of the Chilean Experience and a Challenge for Incremental Design by Margarita Greene and Eduardo Rojas
label: 6.; title: PART TWO: CRITICAL PRACTICES; title: Rules of Engagement: Caracas and the Informal City by Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner
label: 7.; title: Integrated Informality in the Barrios of Havana by Ronaldo Ramirez
label: 8.; title: Formal–Informal Connections in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro: The Favela-Bairro Programme by Roberto Segre
label: 9.; title: Spatial Strategies and Urban Social Policy: Urbanism and Poverty Reduction in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro by Jorge Fiori and Zeca Brandão
label: 10.; title: Urban and Social Articulation: Megacities, Exclusion and Urbanity by Jorge Mario Jáuregui
label: 11.; title: Public-city in Manifesto: The Formal City In-formed by Public Interest by Claudio Vekstein
label: 12.; title: Notes on Contributors; title: Index