Insurgência, planejamento e a perspectiva de um urbanismo humano | Insurgency, planning and the prospect of a humane urbanism

Conferência de Abertura do IV World Planning Schools Congress (WPSC), realizada no Rio de Janeiro, em 3 de julho de 2016. Tradução de Ester Limonad, docente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia da Universidade Federal Fluminense (POSGEO/UFF)

Forgotten Plotlanders: Learning from the survival of lost informal housing in the UK.

Colin Ward’s discourses on the arcadian landscape of ‘plotlander’ housing are unique documentations of the anarchistic birth, life, and death of the last informal housing communities in the UK. Today the forgotten history of ‘plotlander’ housing documented by Ward can be re-read in the context of both the apparently never-ending ‘housing crisis’ in the UK, and the increasing awareness of the potential value of learning from comparable informal housing from the Global South. This papers observations of a previously unknown and forgotten plotlander site offers a chance to begin a new conversation regarding the positive potential of informal and alternative housing models in the UK and wider Westernised world

Insurgencia, planificación y la perspectiva de un urbanismo humano

Este documento contiene en texto completo el articulo Insurgencia, planificación y la perspectiva de un urbanismo humano publicado en Territorios; Núm. 38 (2018): Dinámicas sociales y reconfiguraciones territoriales contemporáneas;Territorios; Núm. 38 (2018): Dinámicas sociales y reconfiguraciones territoriales contemporáneas;2215-7484;0123-8418;10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/territorios/num38.201

Insurgencia, planificación y la perspectiva de un urbanismo humano

Este documento contiene en texto completo el articulo Insurgencia, planificación y la perspectiva de un urbanismo humano publicado en Territorios; Núm. 38 (2018): Dinámicas sociales y reconfiguraciones territoriales contemporáneas;Territorios; Núm. 38 (2018): Dinámicas sociales y reconfiguraciones territoriales contemporáneas;2215-7484;0123-8418;10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/territorios/num38.201

Revisiting Informal-Sector Home Ownership: The Relevance of Household Composition for Housing Options of the Poor

This article examines the linkages between the housing options of the poor and their household composition. It gathers field data among renters and owners in low-income neighborhoods of Guadalajara, Mexico, and it argues that informal-sector home ownership is not favorable to the conditions of female householders. Thus, housing assistance programs that focus solely on conditions of housing in informal settlements and that promote home ownership in peripheral areas practice a discriminatory approach to housing that cannot serve the needs of a growing percentage of low-income households. Meanwhile, inner-city rental units, with the greatest concentration of female householders, are being allowed to deteriorate and may soon be erased from the city's landscape on account of real estate pressure. The paper calls for housing policy-makers and researchers to broaden their scope of concern to include renting and sharing as important shelter alternatives of the poor, and also to account for the variations in housing strategies of the poor based on changing patterns of household composition. Copyright Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishers Ltd 1997.

Urban Politics: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue

Urban politics is a multidisciplinary field, in other words a number of bits - so to speak - of different disciplines work on it. While those in political science might claim to produce the bulk of the work in this field, others in anthropology, economics, human geography, planning, social policy and sociology can also claim to be making a contribution. The introduction situates the six sections comprising this essay, in which contributors discuss what their respective disciplines bring to the wider field of \u27urban politics\u27 and highlight some possible areas for future work. © 2011 The Authors. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research © 2011 Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishing Ltd