"what is urban informatlity?"
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This was a project (Project 1a) for my Andean Informal Urbanism studio; we were to define urban informality.TRANSCRIPT
Informal Urbanism?Earl Schrader
http://encounteringurbanization.wordpress.com/
Informal Urbanism?Earl Schrader
Top: http://www.generationenterprise.org/mission.html Bottom: multiple images from internet, composed by Earl Schrader
Is it world-wide?
Informal Urbanism?Earl Schrader
multiple sources including last years students
Informal Settlement
shack
Shanty town
Slum
illegal settlement
Tent village
illegal occupation
Favela Sahakhum “poor settlement”
homeless people’s settlement
Ukumbashi “squatters people without shelter” Villa miseria (poor city)
Villas de emergencia (emergency dwellings)
Unplanned settlements
Inappropriate for human habitation
Unconventional dwellings
Periphery
Squatter town
Precarious settlements
marginal Settlements
Inadequate housing
Hoovervilles
synonyms
Informal Urbanism?Earl Schrader
David Harvey believes
Friedrich Engels
http://www.planetizen.com/node/38216
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.”
“... 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”
definiting it
Informal Urbanism?Earl Schrader
Many scholars that study the issue suscribe to and continue to further theorize on Henri Lefebvre’s ideas ofRight to the City
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.
http://www.planetizen.com/node/38216
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.
more available in Bulletin_on Housing Rights and theRight to the City in Latin America 2008 | #04 by the CENTRE ON HOUSING RIGHTS AND EVICTIONS
defining it
Informal Urbanism?Earl Schrader
temporary?
Occupy Wall Street - Zuccotti ParkPicture from: http://synccity.blogspot.com/2011/10/zuccotti-park.html
Informal Urbanism?Earl Schrader
only new?
Hoovervilles - 1920s-30s all over U.S.Picture from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hoooverville_williamette.jpg
Informal Urbanism?Earl Schrader
• in every country• typical concerns
• infrastructure can’t keep up• sewage• water• basic services
• structural safe buildings
• access to politics• access to economy/jobs
South America
Informal Urbanism?Earl Schrader
Lima, Peru - typical to most settlement examples found; most info found dealt with problematic
a different sense of development, more positive,
is it related to Right to the City inclusion in the constitution
Curitiba, Brazil
2 very different S. American Realities
Informal Urbanism?Earl Schrader
http://www.planetizen.com/node/38216
hope?
‐Rebecca Tuhus‐DubrowJournalist
‐Teddy CruzArchitect
“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”
“They have sophisticated, participatory practices, and a light way of occupyingthe land. Because people are trying to survive, creativity flourishes.”