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Friday, May 9, 2008

'INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS'

Improving Informal Settlements: Ideas from Latin America: Prevailing strategies for addressing non-formal settlements have shifted away from large-scale slum clearance and relocation...approach favored today is on-site upgrading and improvement, with the goal of integrating low-income communities into their larger urban contexts.- Harvard Design Magazine


Resisting Representation: The Informal Geographies of Rio de Janiero: As geographers, architects, or planners, accepting our inability to articulate urban boundaries is infinitely useful for describing the contemporary city.- Harvard Design Magazine
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