III. Methodology: Three Parameters of Documentation Our research seeks to create an archive to capture the transient conditions characterizing the contemporary moment. It was undertaken in anticipation of the potentially imminent establishment of a new “corrective� order, against which the informal practices in question might continue to push back.
TYPOLOGICAL
The project aims to explore alternative, yet dominant and proliferating, urban orders through the documentation of informal spatial practices. By critically engaging emerging trajectories for urban development it becomes possible, moreover, to envision potential scenarios to help renegotiate the formal-informal relationship. The first stage of research focused on the production of an index of the geographical, temporal and typological dimensions
GEOGRAPHICAL
TEMPORAL
of informal practices in public space. Definitions of these three axes of analysis are followed here by the elaboration of two case studies addressing street vendors and roadside development, which help illustrate principal points defining the transitions currently sustained by the city.
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