Organizer: Camila D’Ottaviano (University of São Paulo, FAUUSP, BR); Murat Cemal Yalcintan (Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi, Istanbul, TR); Renato Pequeno (Federal University of Ceará, BR).
Contacts: camila.dottaviano@gmail.com; m.c.yalcintan@gmail.com; renatopequeno@gmail.com
Regarding the place of residence of the low income population, the second half of the Twentieth century was characterized by the consolidation of large informal settlements: favelas in Brazil, Gecekondu in Turkey, slums in India and several other names all around developing countries.
During the last two decades it has been possible to observe the institutionalization of public interventions in informal urban areas. Interventions were initially targeted and incomplete interventions, with specific purposes as water supply or risk areas. Recently these interventions often include both large improvements in urban infrastructure and land tenure. However, most of the time they are to trigger the construction sector for the sake of economic growth rather than the improvement of the quality of life in the informal settlements.
From a legal standpoint, a number of countries have incorporated the issue of housing rights in their Federal Constitutions or in specific urban legislation and many still strive for it.
Although some of the improvements in the informal settlements are welcome, some represents forced evictions in the name of urban improvements that are not necessarily intended for informal settlements dwellers. Even with the removals, the number of informal settlements dwellers continues to grow in Latin America, Africa and Asia with more organized communities struggling against forced evictions
This session aims to understand and discuss some key issues related to informal settlements dwellers around the world:
- Who are these informal settlement dwellers?
- How do these populations live?
- What are the impacts of the recent urban and land tenure interventions politics on these communities?
- What are these communities’ dwellers daily existence/survival strategies?
- Are they organized? How do they act?
D4.1 Intervening in irregular settlements: between changes and continuity
Chairs: Organizer: Camila D’Ottaviano (University of São Paulo, FAUUSP); Murat Cemal Yalcintan (Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi, Istanbul); Renato Pequeno (Federal University of Ceará).
Contacts: camila.dottaviano@gmail.com; m.c.yalcintan@gmail.com; renatopequeno@gmail.com
Richa Bhardwaj
Assertions of the Urban Poor towards Inclusion in cities of Global South: Challenging the Spatial Plan in Chandigarh, India
Silvia Longueira Castro Obdulia Taboadela Alvarez
Penamoa:waiting 25 years in the backyard. Xenophobia and some contradictions in the eradication of a shanty town
Shitong Qiao
Dealing with Illegal Apartments: What New York City Can Learn from Shenzhen, China?
Katarina Smatanova
Housing solves it all? Lessons from informal Roma settlements in Slovakia
Asuman Turkun
Ruthless transformation efforts in the housing areas of the urban poor and implications for the right to housing
Distributed papers
Juliana Petrarolli, Rosana Denaldi, Ricardo Moretti, Fernando Nogueira
Slum upgrading in the context of the National Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) in the ABC region
Cecilia Sgolacchia
Urban informality, participation and imaginative resistance in Brazil. A case study in the peripheRemoção Branca as State-led Gentrification in the Southern Zone Favelas of Rio de Janeiroral Nordeste
D4.2 Intervening in irregular settlements: between changes and continuity
Chairs: Organizer: Camila D’Ottaviano (University of São Paulo, FAUUSP); Murat Cemal Yalcintan (Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi, Istanbul); Renato Pequeno (Federal University of Ceará).
Contacts: camila.dottaviano@gmail.com m.c.yalcintan@gmail.com renatopequeno@gmail.com
Carolina Lunetta
Remoção Branca as State-led Gentrification in the Southern Zone Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
Nadia Nur
The right to the informal city: dwelling Buenos Aires
Aisling O’Loghlen
Neoliberalism and the Right to the City; the challenge for the urban slum dweller
Sonia Roitman
Layers and networks: community organization in informal settlements in Indonesia
Urmi Sengupta
Squatters & the City: Reflecting on grassroots mobilisation through enablement policies
Distributed papers
Tara Saharan
Opportunities and constraints of asset accumulation: case study of an informal settlement in Durban, South Africa
