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1st Edition

Resilient Cities in the Global South Rethinking Informality in Urban Planning and Design

Edited By Lakshmi Priya Rajendran, NezHapi-Dellé Odeleye, Aysegul Can Copyright 2026

242 Pages 60 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

Description

Post-pandemic, cities face new challenges in adapting to global changes, while also addressing the needs, practices, and capabilities of diverse populations. Resilience, as a key factor, enables cities to adapt and transform in response to these challenges. Development driven by resilience is crucial for urban society’s ability to adapt and evolve on multiple levels. However, in developed... Read more

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Foreword By Nezar AlSayyad

1 Informality, resilience, and dialogue: Towards an alternative southern framework

LAKSHMI RAJENDRAN, NEZHAPI-DELLE ODELEYE AND AYSEGUL CAN

PART 1 North-South Relations

2 A marginalised spatial structure in Melbourne’s public housing estates: Evaluating public spaces, infrastructure, and citizen participation

MAJDI FALEH, SANDRA CARRASCO AND NEERAJ DANGOL

3 Accessing the city via informal urbanism: Kampungs, multiculturalism, and kebabs

SIDH SINTUSINGHA, TAHJ ROSMARIN AND JAMES CONNOR

4 Reporting from the front: How socio-economic nonconformities revolutionise architecture as a political act

ALIKI-MYRTO PERYSINAKI

5 Re-conceptualising the relationship between informalities, livelihoods, and governance towardsurban resilience

DAVID CORBETT, MARCUS FOTH, NANCY ODENDAAL AND MARKUS RITTENBRUCH

PART 2 Grassroots

6 "Never let a good crisis go to waste": Lessons on dialogical transformations of public agency and space

ROBERT BROWN AND HUGO TEMPELMAN

7 Havana’s informal settlements: Strengthening resilience through grassroots infrastructures

OSKAR LUBIŃSKI

8 Resilient co-production of peripheral popular urbanisation in Buenos Aires Metropolitan Region: The case of Guernica land reappropriation

FRANCESCA FERLICCA, RICARDO APAOLAZA AND JUAN PABLO VENTURINI

PART 3 Institutional Strategies Professional Alliances

9 Resilience to colonial modernity: Shaping slum rehabilitations in Pune, India

HARSHAVARDHAN JATKAR

10 Urban informality in the making: Public actors’ spatial strategies in Gimpo, South Korea

SANGWON CHAE AND HAERAN SHIN

11 Architecture of engagement: Site, action, and possibilities for reinvention

BRUNA FERREIRA MONTUORI AND MARCOS L. ROSA

12 Revisiting social resilience in informal settlements: The strength and the limits of Paraisópolis community action during the COVID-19 pandemic in São Paulo

HIGOR CARVALHO, LUCIANA ROYER, BEATRIZ KARA JOSÉ AND ROBERTO ROCCO

13 Conceptual implications: An emerging "urban informality dialogical framework"?

NEZHAPI-DELLE ODELEYE, AYSEGUL CAN AND LAKSHMI PRIYA RAJENDRAN

Index

Editor(s)

Biography

Lakshmi Priya Rajendran is Associate Professor in Environmental and Spatial Equity, Bartlett School of Architecture, The Bartlett Faculty of Built Environment, University College London (UCL), UK.

Nezhapi-Dellé Odeleye is Associate Professor in Urban Design & Planning, and MSc Planning Course Director, School of Engineering and Built Environment, Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), Chelmsford, UK.

Aysegul Can is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Institute of Regional Studies, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany.

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