Informal Urbanism?
Earl Schrader
http://encounteringurbanization.wordpress.com/
Informal Urbanism?
Top: http://www.generationenterprise.org/mission.html
Is it world-wide?
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Bottom: multiple images from internet, composed by Earl Schrader
Informal Urbanism? synonyms
Slum
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Tent village
homeless people’s settlement
Unplanned settlements
shack
Inadequate housing
Informal Settlement
marginal Settlements
Favela Sahakhum “poor settlement” Villa miseria (poor city)
Shanty town
Ukumbashi “squatters people without shelter”
Periphery Squatter town
Hoovervilles
Villas de emergencia (emergency dwellings)
illegal occupation
Unconventional dwellings
Precarious settlements Inappropriate for human habitation
illegal settlement multiple sources including last years students
Informal Urbanism? definiting it
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David Harvey believes
Urbanism = captialist construct; and is about consumerism and is a class phenomenon. He shows how this is continually maintained through debt that is always followed by crisis. throughout the world and all of history. He believes we need to shift to a “right to the city.”
Friedrich Engels
“... bourgeoisie has only one method of solving the housing question after its fashion—... This method is called ‘Haussmann’ . . . the result is always the same; the scandalous alleys and lanes disappear to the accompaniment of lavish self-praise from the bourgeoisie on account of this tremendous success, but they appear again immediately somewhere else . . . The same economic necessity which produced them in the first place, produces them in the next place” http://www.planetizen.com/node/38216
Informal Urbanism? defining it
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Many scholars that study the issue suscribe to and continue to further theorize on Henri Lefebvre’s ideas of Right to the City
Right to the City is an idea that completely challenges the existing idea about cities. It would shift to a more socialist ideas based on justice of all inhabitants of the city in many complex ways. Much is vary vague on how to accomplish it but dreams of what can be. All versions would seem to lift up the importance of informal urbanist and the populations within.
B r a z i l i a n 1 9 8 8 Constitutional text recognized the Right to the City as a ´´fundamental`` right.
more available in Bulletin_on Housing Rights and the Right to the City in Latin America 2008 | #04 by the CENTRE ON HOUSING RIGHTS AND EVICTIONS
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Informal Urbanism?
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temporary?
Occupy Wall Street - Zuccotti Park Picture from: http://synccity.blogspot.com/2011/10/zuccotti-park.html
Informal Urbanism?
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only new?
Hoovervilles - 1920s-30s all over U.S. Picture from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hoooverville_williamette.jpg
Informal Urbanism? South America •
in every country
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typical concerns •
infrastructure can’t keep up sewage water basic services • • •
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structural safe buildings access to politics access to economy/jobs
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Informal Urbanism?
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2 very different S. American Realities Lima, Peru - typical to most settlement examples found; most info found dealt with problematic Curitiba, Brazil a different sense of development, more positive, is it related to Right to the City inclusion in the constitution
Informal Urbanism? hope?
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‐Rebecca Tuhus‐Dubrow Journalist
“But among architects, planners, and other thinkers, there is growing realization that they [slums] also possess a unique strength, and may even hold lessons in successful urban development”
‐Teddy Cruz Architect
“They have sophisticated, participatory practices, and a light way of occupying the land. Because people are trying to survive, creativity flourishes.”
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