Atlas of Informal Settlement: Understanding Self-Organized Urban Design. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Atlas of Informal Settlement: Understanding Self-Organized Urban Design

The first book to map the processes by which informal settlements and slums grow and develop, presenting 50 contemporary case studies of informal settlements from over 30 cities across the Global South.

Kim Dovey is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Melbourne.

Matthijs van Oostrum currently works with UN-Habitat, Nairobi.

Tanzil Shafique teaches at the University of Sheffield and is an Associate of the Urban Institute. He is the Convenor of the the Southern Theorising Group (STingG), as well as co-leads Sheffield Design Lab. Tanzil's research looks at informal cities and their adaptation to climate change, participatory spatial practices and decolonial/pluriversal thought. He recently won half a million pounds from UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office for a wetland revitalisation project. He also runs Platform for Housing Justice, a grassroot activism infrastructure. He is co-author of Off-Grid Toilets (2022) and Atlas of Informal Settlements (2023).

Ishita Chatterjee is Associate Professor at the Jindal School of Art and Architecture, O.P. Jindal Global University, India.

Elek Pafka is Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning and Urban Design at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses on the relationship between material density, urban form and the intensity of urban life, as well as methods of mapping the 'pulse' of the city. He has participated in research on transit orientated development, functional mix and walkability. He has co-edited the book Mapping Urbanities: Morphologies, Flows, Possibilities.