Informality through Sustainability : Urban Informality Now
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University of Portsmouth
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 25933613
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780367354770
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Additional information
- This output comprises the introduction, an individual chapter, and edited book that contains them: Informality Through Sustainability Urban Informality Now (2020, Routledge). Di Raimo was the lead and corresponding editor, co-wrote the book introduction, peer-reviewed all 25 chapters, and worked with the Routledge team to address all communications and corrections during the pre-publication process.
This volume explores the phenomenon of informality within urban settlements and unravels the subtle link between informal settlements and sustainability. It addresses informality and sustainability at various levels, from city planning and urban design to public space and architectural education. It also discovers the understandings of informality at various scales (region, precinct, neighbourhood and individual building). This text comes at a time when common notions of ‘informality’ are being challenged, and opposes simplistic calls to legalise informal settlements or to view them as ‘problems’, addressing required knowledge about the interplay between informality and sustainability to ensure that cities can meet the future needs of their inhabitants.
Informality Through Sustainability bridges the worlds of informality, sustainability, the environment, and community to architecture and urban design. At a time when informality is under increasing investigation, this book sheds further light on the extraordinary value that informality can add in the near future, if turned into an opportunity. The applied nature of the book - with its theoretical investigations, design scenarios, policy recommendations - makes it relevant to a range of audiences including a wide spectrum of disciplines and transdisciplinary scholars, professionals, policy makers, advocates for sustainable development, planning and design students and general audience.
Di Raimo’s single-authored chapter ‘What does Informality have to say to Architecture?: Decolonising the Enquire and the Enquirer’ (pp. 7-22) aims at promoting a decolonized understanding of urban and architecture informality by highlighting its indigenous value within a geographical context.
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