Slums. Desmontando el concepto

Mazarro, Alejandro De Castro

doi:10.4067/s0717-69962018000100080

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“…Called by various names, according to language and geographic regions (Nolan, 2016;Mazarro, 2018), selfproduced settlements have traditionally been called slum when referring to lower quality housing and unhealthy conditions (UN-HABITAT, 2003: 9). Slum is currently understood as residential areas where: (1) residents have no security of tenure or housing; (2) neighbourhoods often lack basic services and infrastructure; (3) housing is precarious, overcrowded, does not comply with current planning and construction regulations and is often situated in environmentally unsafe areas (UN-HABITAT, 2003: 11).…”

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The environmental sustainability of Maputo self-produced settlements: The case of George Dimitrov Neighbourhood

Alves¹,

Salamay²

2019

Afr J Eng Res

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Urban environmental sustainability is currently essential to ensure a healthy society, especially in the Self-Produced Neighbourhoods (SPN), since poverty and urbanization embody their environmental problems. However, considering that the temporal construction of the SPN sets up urban tissues linked to cultural and social values of its residents, this research aims to analyse the possibility of requalifying the Maputo SPN taking advantage of the existing one in order to reach its environmental sustainability. For this purpose, a literature review of specialty and George Dimitrov Neighbourhood (GDN) in Maputo were used as a case study to understand and discuss the research question. As a result, it was found that, despite the apparent disorder of the urban tissue of the neighbourhood, GND shows a considerable morphological and social potential that can be taken advantage of in their environmental requalification. Moreover, it has been found that poverty and the scarcity or lack of adequate technical knowledge in the neighbourhood's self-construction is the main environmental problems detected. In this point of view, it was concluded that, it is possible to requalify environmentally Maputo SPN taking advantage of existing conditions. To this end, urban public policies must, in addition to effectively taking up the urgency of SPN environmental issues in their interventions, create sustainable solutions that understand the cultural and socioeconomic logics that guide self-construction and, thus, integrate strategically in this process.

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The environmental sustainability of Maputo self-produced settlements: The case of George Dimitrov Neighbourhood

Alves¹,

Salamay²

2019

Afr J Eng Res

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“…UN-Habitat's characterization of slums has been criticized for reproducing some traditionally negative biases, oversimplifying a heterogeneous phenomenon, setting unachievable policy goals, and legitimizing evictions in the context of slum clearance. 5 Through the practical denial of the intrinsic social dimensions of slums and the ad-hoc invention of their global history, UN-Habitat's characterization naturalizes socially constructed problems and attributes social to spatial factors, two logical flaws that enable a subjective gaze on slums 6 -especially in architectural discourse. 7 Strikingly, these critiques all reject any naturalization of precarious urban areas and share the constructivist view that sees the enthroning of the concept "slum" as an ultimately political project to legitimize the stigmatization of urban areas regardless of their particular cultural contexts and dynamics.…”

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Situating Slums in Hegemonic Urban Discourse: A Historiography of English-Language Architecture and Planning Journals

Mazarro

2022

Journal of Urban History

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Over recent years, the political critique of the characterization of slums has progressively developed within hegemonic urban planning discourse. In planning history, however, the emergence of slums remains associated with the narrative and geographies of underdevelopment in the context of modernization theory. To deconstruct this narrative and thus contribute to the decolonization of planning discourse, this paper undertakes a historiographic analysis of English-language journal publications dealing with different forms of subaltern urbanism. I show how the concept of “slums” has progressively broadened in meaning to encompass an ever-larger array of derogatory concepts, and that the term “slum” is limited to certain geographical hotspots, thereby contributing to geopolitical biases and knowledge gaps. Through the content analysis of publications, I am able to outline a historical periodization of hegemonic planning themes and proposals addressing slums in diverse geographies, along with critical views on their underlying perspectives.

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Informal settlement is not a euphemism for ‘slum’: what’s at stake beyond the language?

Dovey

Shafique

Oostrum

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International Development Planning Review

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Slums. Desmontando el concepto

Cited by 3 publications

References 2 publications

The environmental sustainability of Maputo self-produced settlements: The case of George Dimitrov Neighbourhood

The environmental sustainability of Maputo self-produced settlements: The case of George Dimitrov Neighbourhood

Situating Slums in Hegemonic Urban Discourse: A Historiography of English-Language Architecture and Planning Journals

Informal settlement is not a euphemism for ‘slum’: what’s at stake beyond the language?

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