Metropolis Nonformal

authored by

Christian Werthmann, Jessica Bridger

Abstract

Nonformal urbanization will be the dominant mode of urban growth in the coming decades. The results of this growth go by many well-known names, including: slums, favelas, and shantytowns. The precarious conditions of these settlements, excluded from legal, social, and infrastructural systems, present a central challenge - and opportunity - in our current and future cities. Short texts explain a range of projects and initiatives, complimented by photographs and personal insight, to present a diversity of responses to the global phenomenon known here as "Metropolis Nonformal".

Organisation(s)

Institute of Landscape Architecture

Type

Monograph

No. of pages

238

Publication date

2015

Publication status

Published

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities