Title & Author:

Informalize! / ETH Zurich, Werk 11 ; edited by Marc Angelil & Rainer Hehl ; [with contributions by Tom Avermaete, Fran Tonkiss, Milica Topalović, Ananya Roy].

Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Ruby Press, [2012]
©2012

Description:

142 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 18 cm.

Series:

Essays on the political economy of urban form ; vol. 1

Notes:
"WERK 11: A Laboratory for Contemporary Urban Design and Research"--Title page verso.
At head of title: ETH Zurich Werk 11.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / by Rainer Hehl -- Accommodating the Afropolis: Michael Ecochard's alternative approach to the modern city / by Tom Avermaete -- Informality and its discontents / by Fran Tonkiss -- Brick and gold: the urbanism and architecture of informal Belgrade / by Milica Topalović -- Slumdog cities: rethinking subaltern urbanism / by Ananya Roy.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Centring Africa: Postcolonial Perspectives on Architecture", 2019-2021, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Summary:

Informalize! is the first book in the forthcoming Essays on the Political Economy of Urban Form series developed at WERK 11, a research hub of the ETH Zurich bringing together the various fields that have an impact on today's urban conditions. Edited by Marc Angélil and Rainer Hehl, this collection of four essays presents a cross-section of urban informality drawing on broader theoretical frameworks as well as case studies from Casablanca, Belgrade, and the Global South. Reading the city of yesterday as the physical manifestation of the failure of the urban economy to meet the needs of a growing population, Informalize! turns to the city of today and tomorrow as the representation of a paradigmatic shift toward new social, political, and economic orders and ways of collecting and applying urban knowledge.

ISBN:

9783981343663 (pbk.)
3981343662 (pbk.)

Subject:

Squatter settlements Economic aspects.
Urban economics Political aspects.
Urbanization Economic aspects.
Illegal buildings Serbia Belgrade Case studies.
Illegal buildings Morocco Casablanca Case studies.
Illegal buildings Developing countries Case studies.
Bidonvilles Aspect économique.
Économie urbaine Aspect politique.
Urbanisation Aspect économique.
Illegal buildings
Verstädterung
Spontansiedlung
Stadtplanung
Politische Ökonomie
Internationaler Vergleich
Developing countries
Morocco Casablanca
Serbia Belgrade
byplanteori
selvgroede byer

Form/genre:

Case studies
Études de cas.

Added entries:

Angelil, Marc M., editor.
Hehl, Rainer, editor.
Avermaete, Tom.
Tonkiss, Fran.
Topalović, Milica.
Roy, Ananya.
Angelil, Marc M.
Hehl, Rainer
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, author, sponsoring body.
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Departement Architektur, author, sponsoring body.
Singapore-ETH Center, sponsoring body.
Future Cities Laboratory, sponsoring body.
Essays on the political economy of urban form ; v. 1.

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 279606
Call No.: BIB 215725
Status: Available