1st Edition
Insurgent Urbanisms in the Americas
Foreword by Peter M. Ward
Preface by Kristine Stiphany and Edna Ely-Ledesma
Introduction
1. Insurgent Urbanisms
Kristine Stiphany and Edna Ely-Ledesma
Part 1. Origins: Insurgency and Urban Housing
2. Between Local Initiatives and Policy Responses: The Chilean Experience of Rental Housing
Francisca Bogolasky Fliman
3. Between Minimum Space and Maximum Profitability: New Forms of Residential Precarity in Rental Housing in Chile
Adriana Marín-Toro, Loreto Rojas Symmes, and Carlos Bustamante Villegas
4. From Utopia to Vernacular: Social Housing, Informality, and Right to the City in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Gregory Marinic
5. Housing Struggles and Organizing in the Wake of Financialization in Mexico
Alejandra Reyes
6. Educational Insurgency in São Paulo, Brazil
Kristine Stiphany
7. A Brief Genealogy of Peripheral Insurgencies in São Paulo, Brazil
Patricia de Toledo Basile
Part 2. Iterations: Insurgency and Knowledge Co-Construction
8. Faith-Based Organizations: A Pathway to Insurgent Planning in Seattle?
Rachel Berney
9. Community Counter-Mapping for Urban Upgrading in Fortaleza, Brazil
Clarissa Freitas, Sarah Farias, and Eugênio Moreira
10. Attempts at Homogenization, Hybridization, and Contestation at the México/United States Borderlands
Germán Pallares-Avitia
11. "Socially Charged Possibilities": Are Political-Spatial Formulations in São Paulo Reflective of a Right to the City?
Marcos L. Rosa
12. Affordable but Unhealthy: A Partial Right to the City in South Texas Informal Subdivisions
Bára Šafářová
Part 3. Evolutions: Insurgency and Environmental Justice
13. From Environmental Criminalization to Insurgent Environmental Justice: Occupying and Holding Ground in São Paulo's Southern Periphery
María Arquero de Alarcón and Ana Paula Pimentel Walker
14. Balancing Access and Regenerating Habitats: Towards a Socio-Ecological Integration in the Rio Grande/Río Bravo Delta
Gabriel Díaz Montemayor
15. Designing a New City Place: Green Infrastructure on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Edna Ely-Ledesma
16. From Infrastructure to Environmental Justice: The Case of a Multiracial Unincorporated Community in North Texas
Ariadna Reyes and Bernardo R. Vargas
17. Resisting Colonialismo Ambiental and Colonialismo Desastre: The Case of Casa Pueblo in Puerto Rico
Danielle Zoe Rivera
18. Reframing Waller Creek: Landscape as an Agent of Urban Change
Jason Sowell
Conclusion: Learning from Insurgent Urbanisms
19. Conclusion: American Urbanism after a Right to the City
Kristine Stiphany and Edna Ely-Ledesma
Biography
Kristine Stiphany is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University at Buffalo and the Director of the Design for Resilient Environments Lab. Her work examines how the aftereffects of urban redevelopment have created new architectures, landscapes, and building cultures, with a particular focus on Latin America and the U.S.–Mexico border.
Edna Ely-Ledesma is an Associate Professor in the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Director of the Kaufman Lab for the Study and Design of Food Systems and Marketplaces. Her research, teaching, and mentoring focuses on understanding the development of the smart, green, and just 21st century city.
