The volume of research literature and plain observation reveals as an undeniable reality that the common future is an urban one. This unprecedented condition proposes a new set of challenges for which longstanding political, social and spatial planning approaches are overwhelmed when confronted with the scale of such an urban phenomenon. This thesis seeks to systematically examine the causes and effects of the contemporary urban situation across geographical scales. The comparison between global and local scales – which in this discourse highlights South Africa and one of its largest informal settlements of Khayelitsha as a case study – is a strategy employed to investigate the underlying features of the contemporary and future urban reality. From this survey of varying urban actualities the intention is to gain a more equipped knowledge base from which re-visioned planning and design approaches may be appropriately implemented.
La letteratura scientifica insieme alla semplice osservazione mostrano come innegabile tendenza mondiale una nuova realtà: le prossime generazioni nasceranno e cresceranno in aree urbane. Mai nella storia lo status quo delle istituzioni politiche, delle strutture sociali e spaziali si era trovato a far fronte ad una tendenza di crescita urbana così marcata. Questa tesi vuole esporre ed analizzare i rapporti di causa ed effetto nei cambiamenti urbani che stanno avvenendo, contrapponendo e confrontando i loro sviluppi su scala globale e locale per poi soffermarsi su uno degli esempi più eclatanti: l’”insediamento non autorizzato” di Khayelitsha, in Sud Africa. Attraverso questa ricerca, il lavoro di tesi volge ad integrare l’Architettura con le nuove tendenze urbane a livello globale per poter trarne spunti di discussione su quali possano essere gli impatti e gli sviluppi oggigiorno e in futuro di queste realtà.
Revisioning informality as a contemporary urban condition. An examination spanning global to local scales in search of the tools for improved informal integration
KRAMER, CARINA NICOLA
2010/2011
Abstract
The volume of research literature and plain observation reveals as an undeniable reality that the common future is an urban one. This unprecedented condition proposes a new set of challenges for which longstanding political, social and spatial planning approaches are overwhelmed when confronted with the scale of such an urban phenomenon. This thesis seeks to systematically examine the causes and effects of the contemporary urban situation across geographical scales. The comparison between global and local scales – which in this discourse highlights South Africa and one of its largest informal settlements of Khayelitsha as a case study – is a strategy employed to investigate the underlying features of the contemporary and future urban reality. From this survey of varying urban actualities the intention is to gain a more equipped knowledge base from which re-visioned planning and design approaches may be appropriately implemented.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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