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Informal settlements and sustainable urban planning for developing countries

Cities contain both order and chaos. In them reside beauty and ugliness, virtue and vice.... Cities are the materialization of humanity´s nobles ideas, ambitions and aspiration but when not planned or governed properly, can be the repository of society´s ills. Un-Habitat, State of the world´s cities 2008-2009

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What can we professional town planners and architects learn from unplanned or informal settlements?

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The laboratory: two cases

The screening in Guayaquil

The screening in Dar es Salaam

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The laboratory: two cases

The revelatory case Neighborhood in Guayaquil

The representative case Neighborhood in Dar es Salaam

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The subjects I am addressing / the good genes / the virtues

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Leadership and management → housing affordability & community harmony

Territoriality → Tool to fight segregation in the city

Liminality → Tool for security in the communities

Seasonality → Tool for urban and cultural harmony

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Monolog 1

Monolog 2

Political leaders Professional urban planners

Community leaders /Slums residents Non Professional urban planners

→ Knowledge!

→ Knowledge!

practical tacital I: Observer and listener

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What can we professional town planners and architects learn from unplanned or informal settlements?

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What can we professional town planners and architects learn from unplanned or informal settlements?

01 Gearbox - Staging the Message - ResArc Maria Isabel Rasmussen - Assignment 1