Resilient Urban Regeneration in Informal Settlements in the Tropics: Upgrading Strategies in Asia and Latin America (Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements)

This book focuses on the implementation of slum upgrading projects and the last generation of citywide programmes that define the future urban configuration of informal settlements, from a citywide perspective, in the Earth’s tropical region. The book presents a study on regeneration experiences in Asia and Latin America and it identifies important points of connection and similarities between the two cases, while also determining that, compared to Asia, informality in Latin America is in its ‘second generation.’ Front Matter ....Pages i-xxxiii Introduction, Findings, and Reflections (Oscar Carracedo García-Villalba)....Pages 1-8 Front Matter ....Pages 9-9 Street-Led Citywide Slum Upgrading: Connecting the Informal and the Formal City Through Area-Based Planning and Infrastructure Improvement (Claudio Acioly)....Pages 11-35 Resilient Slum Upgrading in Indonesia. Improving Spatial Connections from Bottom and Top (Oscar Carracedo García-Villalba)....Pages 37-51 Front Matter ....Pages 53-53 Regenerating Informal Settlements Through Mapping and Public Space: The Case of BaSECo Compound in Manila (Francesco Rossini)....Pages 55-82 Medellín, Urban Renewal of Informal Settlements Through Public Space: The Case of the North-Eastern Integral Urban Project (PUI) (Armando Arteaga)....Pages 83-99 Front Matter ....Pages 101-101 Capacity Building and Education in Latin America. Contributions and Limitations of the Venezuelan and Colombian Experiences, Lessons Looking into the Future (David Gouverneur)....Pages 103-126 Balancing Participatory Design Approaches in Slum Upgradation: When Top-Down Meets Bottom-Up! (Reena Tiwari, Jessica Winters, Neeti Trivedi)....Pages 127-147 Front Matter ....Pages 149-149 Governance, Institutional Coordination, and Socio-Spatial Justice: Reflections from Latin America and the Caribbean (Clara Irazábal)....Pages 151-173 Community-Driven Forms of Governance in Thailand. City-Wide On-Site Upgrading of Informal Settlements (Oscar Carracedo García-Villalba)....Pages 175-207