presentazione/introduction
Informal community text by Marco Casamonti
slum history: timeline by Laura Arrighi

editoriale/editorial
Re-thinking the informal city text by Rahul Mehrotra

letture critiche/critical lectures
Gran Horizonte: Taking a Walk in the Urban Planet text by Urban-Think Tank, Alfredo Brillembourg & Hubert Klumpner
JR / Agence VU Women are heroes

scenari di architettura/architectural scenario
Emilio and Matteo Caravatti / Community School
Kéré Architecture / Gando Library
Urban Nouveau* / Incremental Housing Strategy
TYIN tegnestue Architects / Klong Toey Community Lantern
Hong Kong Rooftop Communities photo by Stefan Canham and Rufina Wu text by Massimiliano Giberti
ELEMENTAL / Quinta Monroy Housing
Urban Think Tank – Alfredo Brillembourg, Hubert Klumpner / Torre David
Urban Think Tank – Alfredo Brillembourg, Hubert Klumpner / Caracas Metro Cable
Vigliecca & Associados / Parque Novo Santo Amaro V
M3 Arquitetura / H30 PARK
Jan Kudlicka / Favela Rocinha
Archea Associati/ Favela Babilonia e Chapéu Mangueira

fotografia/photography
Leonardo Finotti / Babilonia and Chapeu Mangueira favelas

informal community bibliography

itinerario contemporaneo/contemporary itinerary Santiago de Chile itinerary

esiti concorsi/competitions

recensioni mostre e libri/ exhibition and book reviews

new media


Informal Community

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If images of slums, informal and spontaneous communities, favelas or whatever we want to call urban areas of poverty and hardship dominated the first room of the Corderie dell’Arsenale at…

slum history: timeline

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The expression slum is being used far too indiscriminately today. One speaks of informal settlements in more or less scientific terms, referring to different realities. However, the facility with which…

Re-thinking the informal city

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Today in most cities around the world there exist several forms of urbanism that coexists on the same space. These varied concepts of urbanism (whether Everyday Urbanism, New Urbanism, Post-Urbanism…

Gran Horizonte: Taking a Walk in the Urban Planet

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“The city is not prepared for the people, and the people are not prepared for the city” – the Perez family; Caracas, Venezuela In the last two years we have…

Women are heroes

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Women – The Project Worldwide Always faithful to his 28mm lens, which gets close to the model in a way that makes it as expressive as possible, JR takes his…

Community School

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The building of a public school in the village of Fansirà Corò is part of a public infrastructure program promoted by AFRICABOUGOU, an Italian non-profit organization that furthers education initiatives…

Gando Library

area 128 | informal community

The success of Kéré Architecture’s Primary School in Gando, Burkina Faso, attracted many more children from the surrounding area and an extension had to be built. As part of this…

Incremental Housing Strategy

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The Incremental Housing Strategy is the legalization of a natural construction process developed globally by the urban poor. When Urban Nouveau* arrived in India the Lehman brothers had recently collapsed….

Klong Toey Community Lantern

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Klong Toey is currently the largest and oldest areas of informal dwellings in Bangkok. More than 140.000 people is estimated to live here, and most are living in sub-standard houses…

Hong Kong Rooftop Communities

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The problem may at first seem complex and multifaceted, but the solution is disarmingly simple. How do we meet the need for a shelter meeting minimal requirements for the most…

Quinta Monroy Housing

area 128 | informal community

The challenge of our first project was to accommodate a hundred families using a subsidy of $7,500 dollars that in the best of the cases allowed for thirty-six square meters…

Caracas Metro Cable

area 128 | informal community

The first part of this project involved a new and revolutionary approach to urban planning. Our extensive past experience working in the barrios and with their community leaders has taught…

Torre David

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Torre David, a 45-story office tower in Caracas designed by the distinguished Venezuelan architect Enrique Gómez, was almost complete when it was abandoned following the collapse of the Venezuelan economy…

Parque Novo Santo Amaro V

area 128 | informal community

We understand residence as a synonym of city. And we do understand that housing production on a large scale constitutes a basic part of the city production. Collective architecture projects…

H3O PARK

area 128 | informal community

H3O PARK is located along the third fountainhead of the city o Belo Horizonte in the middle of Favela da Serra, an informal settlement with a population of 50,000 inhabitants…

Favela Rocinha

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After 3 months spent in fall 2010 by research in Rio de Janeiro‘s biggest slum, so called Favela Rocinha, the concept of regeneration became clear. The way of demolition, isolation…

Favela Babilonia and Chapéu Mangueira

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The project “Living the Community” has focused on the favelas of Babilonia and Chapéu Mangueira, located behind the Bairro do Leme, which have already been involved in the Morar Carioca…

Babilonia and Chapeu Mangueira favelas

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photo by Leonardo Finotti photo by Leonardo Finotti photo by Leonardo Finotti photo by Leonardo Finotti photo by Leonardo Finotti photo by Leonardo Finotti photo by Leonardo Finotti photo by…

contemporary itinerary: Santiago de Chile

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