The increasing development of informal settlements and slums in the years to come is a
humanitarian challenge we are facing worldwide. The reasons for this development are …

Informal settlements in cities of the global South are generally identified by a dense, small-
grain and irregular urban morphology. Such neighbourhoods are rarely entered by those …

This paper engages with how the incremental production of space works in informal
settlements. As one of the critical challenges of urbanism in the cities of the global South …

This paper discusses two distinct interpretations of self-organisation with regard to civic
initiatives in urban development. One concerns urban developments in which citizens …

A recurrent framework for defining informal settlements (IS) is in the singular goal of
reaching formality. As such, development agencies define “slums” as areas that “lack” …

Urbanization is one of the defining trends of our time and appropriate models are needed to
anticipate the changes in cities, which are largely determined by human behavior. In the …

While the shaping of urban places and public spaces can be traced back to thousands of
years ago when cities emerged, the term “urban design” has been popularised since the …

Nation-states have long used representational architecture to create symbolic identities for
public consumption both at home and abroad. Government buildings, major ensembles and …

While complexity theory has become influential in the understanding, analysis and
modelling of cities, it has been far less influential in planning and designing them. In …

This study evaluates whether imagery and geospatial-based measures show differences
between urban and suburban informal settlements. A secondary focus is to determine if …