Informality through Sustainability : Urban Informality Now (Paperback)

Preface David Turnbull  Introduction Antonino Di Raimo, Steffen Lehmann and Alessandro Melis  Part 1 Part 1. Introduction - What does Informality have to say to Architecture?: Decolonising the Enquire and the Enquirer Antonino Di Raimo  1. Visualizing the Political: Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman, in conversation with Kathy Waghorn Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman, in conversation with Kathy Waghorn  2. From a Marxist Arcadia to High-tech Favelas: The Latency of Informality in Archizoom and Andrea Branzi Pablo Martinez Capdevila  3. "I’m an imposter" [a Godel-Cassandra incompleteness] Francois Roche - New-Territories  4. Informality and Dissent: The Culture of Self-sufficiency of the American Rural Poor David Franco Santa Cruz  5. The Urbanism of Individual Arrangements: Understanding Specific Realities - The Case of Tirana Sotir Dhamo  6. Informality and Temporary Appropriation in Atlanta as a Prototype for Resilient Communities William Carpenter  7. Effected Butterflies: Informal Urban Migration of Monarchs and Humans Across the US-Mexico Border Mitchell Joachim and Nicholas Gervasi  8. Informality and Commons Simone Sfriso, Massimo Lepore, Raul Pantaleo, Barbora Foerster  Part 2  Part 2. Introduction - Informality as a Mode of Sustainability Steffen Lehmann  9. The Self-Organising City and Its Modus Operandi: Informal Urbanism and Public Space Steffen Lehmann  10. Housing the Majority, Destroying Agrarian Land: The Irreconcilable Dilemma of Cairo’s Informal areas Charlotte Malterre-Barthes  11. Informality and Mass Housing in Seoul: The Role of Informal Settlements in the Formation of Megaprojects Dario Pedrabissi  12. The Role of Adaptation in Changing the Micro-Morphology of Informal Settlements Paul Jones  13. Urban (in)formality and the New Unsustainable Landscape of the Global South: Case Study of Megacity Dhaka Mohammad S,H, Swapan, Atiq Zaman and Steffen Lehmann  14. Landscape - Infrastructure: Formal - informal Entanglements across Political Ecologies of Resource Use Daniela Perrotti  15. ‘AQUI ESTAMOS Y NO NOS VAMOS’: Contested Ground, Sustainable Informal Settlement and Human Consequence in the Urban Landscape of South Los Angeles Danny H. Ortega  16. The Hill and the Asphalt: a 50-year Perspective on Informality in Rio de Janeiro Janice Perlman  Part 3  Part 3. Introduction - Informal Behavior as a Form of Community Resilience Alessandro Melis  17. Informal Microclimates: Study on Self-Built Settlements and Human Comfort in Amman Ata Chokhachian, Daniele Santucci, Thomas Auer  18. Urban Form of Informal Settlements in the Western Balkans Dorina Pojani  19. Understanding Temporary Appropriation and the Streetscape Design: The case of Algiers, Auckland and Mexico City J. Antonio Lara- Hernandez, M. Yazid Khemri and Alessandro Melis  20. Reinventing City Planning in a Context that "Hates" Planning!: A New Role for Architects, City Planners, and Institutions Besnik Aliaj  21. Roman Lessons: What if Informality was not a bug to be Corrected but a Bacterium Capable of Reactivating a Dormant Urban Metabolism? Alessandra Lai and Francesco Careri  22. Informality in Formality: The Case of a Neighbourhood in a Nigerian City Olufunto, Ayoola, Melis  23. Achieving Community Resilience through Informal Urban Practices: The Case of El Houma in Algiers Yazid Khemri and Alessandro Melis  24. Learning Place Attachment from the Informal City Cristina Dreifuss  25. Designing the "Off-Grid" City: Empowering the Transactions of Infrastructure Aseem Inam  Index