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Learning from the Slums for the Development of Emerging Cities

Part of the GeoJournal Library Book Series (volume 119)

Editors: Bolay, Jean-Claude; Chenal, Jérôme; Pedrazzini, Yves

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-31794-6

ISBN: 978-3-319-31792-2

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jul 30, 2016

1 - 10 of 22 Chapters

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Slums and Precarity in Developing Countries

Bolay, Jean-Claude; Chenal, Jérôme; Pedrazzini, Yves

Pages: 3 –16

[Today, urbanisation is a global process that characterises the rapid development of a majority of emerging and developing countries, giving rise to important social, spatial and economic changes. In such a context, urban issues systematically couple with rural migration phenomena and increasing...
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Slums: Note for an Urban Theory

Pedrazzini, Yves; Chenal, Jérôme; Bolay, Jean-Claude

Pages: 19 –29

[Regarding the critique of urbanism and sociology of the fragmented city, slum theory aims at understanding in what ways slums reflect the segregated city and dominant urban order, when its inhabitants generally have neither the opportunity nor the means to resist this order, other than by...
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Tentative Classification of Various Slum Types

Chenal, Jérôme; Pedrazzini, Yves; Bolay, Jean-Claude

Pages: 31 –41

[This chapter proposes a typology of slums based on spatial indicators at two scales: the neighbourhood scale and the urban scale. By classifying, we are able to understand neighbourhoods based on their urban location (central, peripheral, etc.) and the built environment it generates. This...
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Reading Case Studies

Cvetinovic, Marija

Pages: 45 –46

[Today, with half of the Earth’s population living in cities, urbanisation has become a kind of common ground for the social, spatial and environmental changes taking place worldwide. In this, the slum stands out as a symbol of extensive and rapid urban growth – the antithesis of balanced urban...
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Ciudad Bolivar, Bogota: Scorned Territories

Zorro, Yafiza

Pages: 47 –58

[Even if in Latin America the term most frequently used by their inhabitants to identify informal settlements is the generic word “neighbourhood” (barrio), slums and urban precarity phenomenon are frequent in all main cities of Colombia. They are called “comunas” or “barrios de invasion”...
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Villa El Salvador: From a Self-Management Project to Territorial Marketing

Burgos-Vigna, Diana

Pages: 59 –69

[Villa El Salvador is situated a few kilometres south of Lima and has more than 445,000 residents. In this respect, it may be called a city, rather than a neighbourhood or a slum. This “pueblo joven”, an expression used to refer to informal settlements in Peru, has become a benchmark for urban...
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Rocinha, Favela Beyond a Shelter Issue

Lonardoni, Fernanda

Pages: 71 –80

[Brazil’s early urbanisation was tightly connected with the rise of informal settlement, popularly known as favelas. As a political object, the growth of such favelas has been not only very much intertwined with the idea of poverty and lack of shelter, but also associated with territorial...
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Poor Neighbourhood and Natural Disaster

Bras, Anie; Kern, Abigaïl-Laure; Lucien, Georges Eddy; Emmanuel, Evens

Pages: 81 –91

[In Port-au-Prince, the urban insecurity resulting from the multiplication of disadvantaged neighbourhoods is juxtaposed with a lack of urban planning, which gave rise to uncontrolled urban sprawling and social and economic segregation of urban population. The process of unplanned urbanization of...
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(Re)Urbanization of Villa 31 Carlos Mugica

Castro, Javier Fernández

Pages: 93 –103

[Villa 31 is the most significant of all “informal” settlements in Buenos Aires. It is the largest low-income housing entity and the oldest shanty town in the city. The possibility of replacing Villa 31 with highly profitable real estate developments have obscured the existence of the...
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Social Housing in Nova Luz Project

Gatti, Simone

Pages: 105 –114

[A dynamic process of public and private investments in São Paulo illustrates how the fluctuations in real estate market trace urban development. It is an emblematic example of how the development of suburban centres has driven away public investment and interest from the city centre. Reduced...

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