Learning from the Slums for the Development of Emerging Cities

Part I. Introduction

1. Slums and Precarity in Developing Countries
Jean-Claude Bolay, Jérôme Chenal, Yves Pedrazzini

Part II. Spatial Typology of Slums: Confronting the Dogmatic and the Obvious

2. Slums: Note for an Urban Theory
Yves Pedrazzini, Jérôme Chenal, Jean-Claude Bolay

3. Tentative Classification of Various Slum Types
Jérôme Chenal, Yves Pedrazzini, Jean-Claude Bolay

Part III. Case Studies

4. Reading Case Studies
Marija Cvetinovic

5. Ciudad Bolivar, Bogota: Scorned Territories
Yafiza Zorro

6. Villa El Salvador: From a Self-Management Project to Territorial Marketing
Diana Burgos-Vigna

7. Rocinha, Favela Beyond a Shelter Issue
Fernanda Lonardoni

8. Poor Neighbourhood and Natural Disaster
Anie Bras, Abigaïl-Laure Kern, Georges Eddy Lucien, Evens Emmanuel

9. (Re)Urbanization of Villa 31 Carlos Mugica
Javier Fernández Castro

10. Social Housing in Nova Luz Project
Simone Gatti

11. Slum Improvement Lessons in Africa: Kibera
Christoph Lüthi

12. Urbanisation Prospects for a Traditional Lakeside Habitat
Raphaël Chatelet

13. The Experience of Private Investments and Funding: The Relocation of the Karyan Thomas and Douar Skouila Households
Olivier Toutain

14. Village Model of Urban Housing
Aude Nikiema

15. Dharavi: Where the Urban Design Episteme Is Falling Apart
Camillo Boano

16. A Competition for Land
Valérie Clerc

17. Informal Settlements and Public Policies in Bulgaria During the Post-Socialist Period
Aleksandar D. Slaev, Sonia A. Hirt

18. Participative Urban Planning and Civil Society

19. Precarious Housing in Detroit
Margaret Dewar

20. Lessons Learned from Case Studies
Jean-Claude Bolay, Jérôme Chenal, Yves Pedrazzini

Part IV. Theory, Practice and Interventions: How Slums Challenge the City

21. From the Field to the Theory
Jérôme Chenal, Yves Pedrazzini, Jean-Claude Bolay

22. Learning from the Slums, Learning for the Slums…
Jean-Claude Bolay, Yves Pedrazzini, Jérôme Chenal

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Human Geography, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology