Managing the Informal Cities 2
Type: Virtual Paper
Day: 2/27/2022
Start Time: 11:20 AM
End Time: 12:40 PM
Theme: Geographies of Access: Inclusion and Pathways
Sponsor Group(s):
Urban Geography Specialty Group
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Organizer(s):
Hsi-Chuan Wang
, James Kwame Mensah
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Chairs(s):
Hsi-Chuan Wang, University of Toronto
; James Kwame Mensah, University of Ghana
Description:
Organizers: Hsi-Chuan Wang, University of Toronto, hc.wang@utoronto.ca, James Kwame Mensah, University of Ghana, jamesmensah@ug.edu.gh
Urban informality, considered out of order or with its features and ways of life, is already prominent in urbanscape worldwide. Beyond the earlier idea of dualism, which believes that formality can be thoroughly deprived of informality, the ongoing debates and literature in urban theories have re-grounded our understandings that urbanity should be explored and understood based upon place, context, and time. There are no simple answers to the complex question of managing informal cities; likewise, there should be no identical solutions to the diverse cities immersed in different cultures and countries. Upon focusing on this complex subject, we invite authors to exchange their experiences and research focusing on informal cities.
Possible paper themes may include, but are not limited to:
• Informal Economy and the Cities
• Informal Urbanization and the Driving Forces
• Informal Transportation for the Commons
• Morphogenesis of Informal Settlements
• Collaboration, Conflict, and Compromise of Settlement Interventions
• Slum Politics and the Contrasting Interests
• Innovations on informal Settlement Management
• New Directions for informal Settlement Transformation
Presentation(s), if applicable
Coline Chevrin, CUNY - Graduate Center; Where the informal is: the case of Villa Itatí and the struggle over urban formalization in the city of Rosario, Argentina |
Juan Moreno, ; Trash and Urban Informality: A Study on Spatial Segregation in Bogotá, Colombia |
Patricia Basile, Indiana University; The Favela and the University: illuminating the contested politics of urban informality |
Indivar Jonnalagadda, University of Pennsylvania; Disciplining the Planet of Slums: Habitat Improvement in Hyderabad before the Infrastructural Turn |
Priscila Coli, University of California Berkeley; “Authoritarian Enclaves:” The New Spatial Segregation in the Peripheries of Rio de Janeiro |
Non-Presenting Participants Agenda
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Managing the Informal Cities 2
Description
Virtual Paper
Contact the Primary Organizer
Hsi-Chuan Wang - andrewwang@wustl.edu
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