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.”