Rethinking the Informal City

Rethinking the Informal City
Author :
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 265
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780857456076
ISBN-13 : 0857456075
Rating : 4/5 (075 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Rethinking the Informal City by : Felipe Hernández

Download or read book Rethinking the Informal City written by Felipe Hernández and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Rethinking the Informal City Related Books

Rethinking the Informal City
Language: en
Pages: 265
Authors: Felipe Hernández
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

GET EBOOK

Latin American cities have always been characterized by a strong tension between what is vaguely described as their formal and informal dimensions. However, the
Cities From Scratch
Language: en
Pages: 302
Authors: Brodwyn Fischer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-28 - Publisher: Duke University Press

GET EBOOK

This collection of essays challenges long-entrenched ideas about the history, nature, and significance of the informal neighborhoods that house the vast majorit
Photography and Writing in Latin America
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Marcy E. Schwartz
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: UNM Press

GET EBOOK

This is the first book to document the extensive collaboration between writers and photographers in Latin America from the Mexican Revolution through the twenti
Rock en Español
Language: en
Pages: 177
Authors: Ernesto Lechner
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Chicago Review Press

GET EBOOK

Looks at the careers and musical contributions of alternative rock musicians who are writing and recording songs in Spanish.
Tongues of Fire
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: David Martin
Categories: Evangelicalism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

"Martin, a leading authority in the sociology of religion, here looks at a recent and largely unstudied phenomenon: the rapid growth of evangelicalism in Latin