The morphogenesis of villages-in-the-city: Mapping incremental urbanism in Hanoi city

Thinh, Ngo Kien; Kamalipour, Hesam

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2022.102706

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“…Drawing on case study research in Jakarta, Yogyakarta, and Bandung in Indonesia, Suhartini and Jones [26] provide a better understanding of self-organisation in the context of urban kampungs. While there is also emerging literature on the morphogenesis of informal settlements [27][28][29], the shaping of public space has remained understudied in informal settlements.…”

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“…Lynch [42] discusses five spatial rights, namely the rights of presence, use/action, appropriation, modification, and disposition. Public space can become dysfunctional in informal settlements due to excessive appropriations and/or escalations of incremental adaptations where implicit/informal processes of control fall short of preventing the emergence of slum conditions [16,22,29]. The appropriation of public space for more or less unplanned activities/uses is related to what has been referred to as "loose space" [43].…”

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Shaping Public Space in Informal Settlements: A Case Study

Kamalipour

2023

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Informal settlement has become one of the critical ways of producing space and accessing affordable housing, particularly in the context of the global South. Much of the established literature on the shaping of public space focuses on cities of the global North, and little is known about how public spaces are being shaped in more congested and less formal cities of the global South. This paper engages with the challenge of understanding the shaping of public space in informal settlements with a focus on exploring the spatial structures and increments of change in a case study in Medellin (Colombia). This is primarily an urban design exploration, which deploys direct observation, extensive urban photography, and field notes as key research methods. This paper contributes a critical case study, which has experienced forms of informal and formal transformations. The spatial structures and increments of change are explored in the selected case study and further discussed in the context of the relevant literature. This paper argues that much of the shaping of public space in informal settlements can be considered as “unfinished” in the sense that their “incompleteness” enables a degree of flexibility for possible adaptations in relation to individual/collective needs and desires. The article also reflects on how producing mixed morphologies can be considered as an attempt that may possibly facilitate future forms of formalisation and/or upgrading by enabling a degree of visual resemblance with what is considered as the formal city. The findings of this study can inform the related upgrading practices by providing a better understanding of how public spaces are being shaped in informal settlements.

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Shaping Public Space in Informal Settlements: A Case Study

Kamalipour

2023

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“…The difficulty of access to urban land, the scarcity of housing alternatives due to their high cost, and the lack of adequate housing policies forced massive settlement in remote or inaccessible areas [12][13][14]. These developments are the product of squatting, experiencing rapid processes of land intensification and urban consolidation [9,15]. Thus, urban informality is encouraged as a mode of production by the need to develop economic activities as a form of survival for the population, involuntarily establishing a morphogenic assemblage with formal structures with the capacity to create new informal fabrics according to their needs [16,17].…”

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“…As the primary mapping technique, 270.00 m × 70.00 m boundary squares were established for the inner and outer areas. The squares have been referenced from studies with similar comparative intentions [15,30,40,41]. For the comparative development of the cases, satellite images obtained from Google Earth and Google Street View were used as the main tools to determine typologies in existing informal buildings.…”

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Adaptability and Interconnectedness in Latin American Innerburbs: An Assessment of the Public/Private Interface in Informal Settlements

Muñoz,

Ramos

2024

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An “Innerburb” is an urban structure that emerged between the 1950s and 1980s, settled in rural areas, and is considered the first periphery of the Latin American city. This structure results from socio-spatial and territorial evolutionary processes, constituting the pinnacle of informal evolution. However, despite offering a comprehensive perspective on the informal problem, innerburbs have been scarcely reviewed in the literature. This article explores the Latin American innerburb by adopting as a method a comparative study of the public/private interface in the cases of San Cosme in Lima, Villa Rodolfo Ricciardelli in Buenos Aires and Vila Heliopolis in São Paulo, evaluating their adaptation and interconnection with the city through morphological indicators, using morphological mapping through satellite images as an analytical tool, and using Space Syntax as a topological approach in the analysis of connectivity and visibility indicators. The objective of the research is the detection of morphological patterns that alter the functioning of the public/private interface in innerburbs. The results show that the existence of impermeable facades, the lack of public spaces and the illegal appropriation in the development of informal practices are transgressive adaptability patterns at the micro-scale that affect the interface, drastically limiting the interconnection between the innerburb and the formal fabric, restricting its morphological openness and affecting the development of socioeconomic activities. As a discussion and conclusion, corrective measures for progressive improvement in innerburbs are established, focusing on the adaptability of housing and road space as a means of interconnection between the innerburb and the city.

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