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Rethinking the Informal City: Critical Perspectives from Latin America

Rethinking the Informal City: Critical Perspectives from Latin America

Hernández, Felipe
Kellett, Peter
Allen, Lea Knudsen

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Series: Remapping Cultural History: Perspectives on Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, Book 11

General ArchitectureGeneral Latin American HistoryGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0857456075
ISBN13: 9780857456076
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Mar 1 2012
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Latin American cities have always been characterized by a strong tension between what is vaguely described as their formal and informal dimensions. However, the terms formal and informal refer not only to the physical aspect of cities but also to their entire socio-political fabric. Informal cities and settlements exceed the structures of order, control and homogeneity that one expects to find in a formal city; therefore the contributors to this volume - from such disciplines as architecture, urban planning, anthropology, urban design, cultural and urban studies and sociology - focus on alternative methods of analysis in order to study the phenomenon of urban informality. This book provides a thorough review of the work that is currently being carried out by scholars, practitioners and governmental institutions, in and outside Latin America, on the question of informal cities.

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