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Anthony Boanada-Fuchs, Monika Kuffer and Jota Samper
Slums are a structural feature of urbanization, and shifting urbanization trends underline their significance for the cities of tomorrow. Despite their importance, data and knowledge on slums are very limited. In consideration of the current data landsca...
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Jota Samper and Weichun Liao
This article challenges the narrow definition of informal settlements as solely lacking a formal framework, which overlooks the dynamic city-making and urban design processes within these areas. Communities? self-building processes and areas? constant gr...
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Nastaran Peimani and Hesam Kamalipour
The imperative to address the challenge of transforming car-dependent cities and promoting sustainable mobilities requires that we engage with the relationships between urban morphology and forms of urbanity in public spaces surrounding transit nodes. Wh...
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Valerio Di Pinto, Antonio M. Rinaldi and Francesco Rossini
This paper explores the link between the current vision of the ?smart city? and the notion of urban autopoiesis understood as self-organized/managed urban systems. It seeks to highlight how the use of GIS analysis, applied to the study of informal settle...
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Liora Bigon
This commentary points to the problems inherent in critical place names studies in terms of classic research topics, methodologies and geographies. It expounds the limits of the official ?index?, that is, the variety of traditional urban inscriptions on ...
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Yuan Gao, Sina Shahab and Negar Ahmadpoor
Urban villages play an important role in providing affordable housing to urban migrants in Chinese cities. They are considered as supplementary to the dual rural-urban system in China. Of central importance to studying urban villages is how the morpholog...
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Giovanni Vecchio
Everyday mobility practices are increasingly an element of interest for urban policy, as well as for suggesting alternative solutions to urban issues. Amongst their manifold contributions, practices can be relevant for securing individuals? access to pla...
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Amy Richmond, Ian Myers and Hafisa Namuli
Urbanization increasingly means that the poorest, most vulnerable people move into large, highly distressed informal areas. These areas exhibit high levels of poverty and inequality. This paper uses Kampala, Uganda to identify drivers of vulnerability in...
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Hesam Kamalipour
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Informal settlements have become integral to the urban imagery of the cities across the global South. Forms of urban informality emerge and grow through some generative processes of self-organisation and incremental adaptations. While formal intervention...
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