Forms of Informality and Adaptations in Informal Settlements

Kamalipour, Hesam

doi:10.26687/archnet-ijar.v10i3.1094

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“…This also lends itself to the demarcation proposed by de Certeau [29] between tactics and strategies. Such a distinction can unravel the ways organized strategies of the state confront the self-organized tactics of citizens-what Bayat [30] termed "the quiet encroachment of the ordinary"-particularly in many cities of the global South where urban informality is integral to the everyday life of cities [31], filling the gaps of the formal city and producing a range of urban morphologies [32][33][34][35]. Lynch [36] (pp.…”

Section: Informal Trading In Public Spacementioning

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“…Forms of informality have the capacity to identify and make use of spatial possibilities through tactical practices of urban transformation. Informality incorporates an adaptive capacity that is often overlooked in many formal urban developments [32]. Shops are among the primary examples of such developments that are generally fixed and permanently located along the edges of public space.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Negotiating Space and Visibility: Forms of Informality in Public Space

Kamalipour

Peimani

2019

Sustainability

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Street trading has become integral to how public space works in cities of the global South. It cannot be considered as marginal since it gears to the urban economy and works as a key mode of income generation for the urban poor to sustain livelihoods. A poor understanding of how forms of street trading work in public space can lead to poor design and policy interventions. While many practices of formalization aim at the elimination of informality, the challenge is to explore the complex informal/formal relations and the dynamics of street trading to understand how forms of informality negotiate space and visibility in the public realm. In this paper, we propose a typology of street trading, based on the criteria of mobility within public space and proximity to public/private urban interfaces. While exploring the degrees of mobility in informal street trading can be crucial to the modes of governance and adaptability involved, of critical importance is to investigate how street trading takes place in relation to the built form—particularly the edges of public space where public/private interfaces enable or constrain exchange and appropriation. The developed typology provides a better understanding of the dynamics of street trading and contributes to the ways in which the built environment professions can most effectively engage with interventions in public space without eradicating the scope for informal adaptations.

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Section: Synergies and Contradictionsmentioning

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Negotiating Space and Visibility: Forms of Informality in Public Space

Kamalipour

Peimani

2019

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“…While it has been referred to more as a practice than a territorial formation or labor categorization [33], the term 'informal' does not mean lacking form [34]. There are different forms of informality, producing a range of urban morphologies and socio-spatial conditions [35][36][37][38][39] (Figure 1). It is then crucial to explore the relations between informal and formal as processes of urbanism often mix informality and formality.…”

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Towards an Informal Turn in the Built Environment Education: Informality and Urban Design Pedagogy

Kamalipour

Peimani

2019

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Informal urbanism, ranging from informal settlements to trading and transport, has become integral, but not limited, to the ways in which cities of the global South work. At stake here is the role of the built environment professions in responding to informal urbanism where a poor understanding of the complexities of informality can lead to poor design interventions. Providing a better understanding of how forms of informality work is then a key task for the built environment education, which arguably falls short in this regard. With a particular focus on urban design, we suggest that it is critical to move towards an informal turn in the built environment education to address informality and engage with the dynamics of informal urbanism. We first investigate the scope of urban design and then explore the ways in which urban design education can respond to informal urbanism in its curricula by developing an urban design program on informality as an illustration. The suggested approach can be considered as an initial step towards an informal turn in urban design education. We conclude that while urban design alone cannot solve social and economic problems, including poverty and inequality, its capacity to address the complex challenges of urbanization cannot be overlooked. Urban design education cannot remain isolated from the questions of informality anymore.

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“…While walking in informal settlements, it is possible to identify tactics used by the dwellers to build a community with physical and social understanding. The formal city establishes some development strategies that are often regular and predictable whereas informal citizens also develop strategies for appropriation and adaptation of space related to the established city (Kamalipour, 2016).…”

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Trading Facilities and Socio-spatial Character of Informal Settlements: The Case of Mlalakuwa in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Mbisso¹,

Kalugila²

2018

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Informal settlements constitute the largest means of habitation in the urbanizing world especially in the developing countries. In Dar es Salaam, informal settlements serve over 75% of the population. Among the often-mentioned characteristics of informal settlements include the dominance of informal economic activities. In particular, spaces for trading activities are observed to be randomly distributed in the informal settlements as they serve for the everyday life of its dwellers.However, little had been studied and analysed on the role of trading in shaping socio-spatial character of informal settlements. The aforesaid called for the need to investigate the underlying trading processes and products that characterise the setting of informal settlements. Using Mlalakuwa settlement in Dar es Salaam as a case, this paper maps and analyzes the social and institutional context of trading facilities and the resulting spatial character of informal settlements. One of the key findings in this paper is that trading activities along the main roads transform most of the bounding residential houses into trading facilities. The nature and character of trading facilities appear to define the spatial character of informal settlements in the context of the coexistence of formal and informal systems.

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Forms of Informality and Adaptations in Informal Settlements

Abstract: Informal settlements have become integral to the urban imagery of the cities

Cited by 54 publications

References 31 publications

Negotiating Space and Visibility: Forms of Informality in Public Space

Negotiating Space and Visibility: Forms of Informality in Public Space

Towards an Informal Turn in the Built Environment Education: Informality and Urban Design Pedagogy

Trading Facilities and Socio-spatial Character of Informal Settlements: The Case of Mlalakuwa in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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