Krenz, K;
Kostourou, F;
Psarra, S;
Capillé, C;
(2016)
Understanding the City as a Whole: An Integrative Analysis of Rio de Janeiro and its Informal Settlements.
In: Ding, W and Cecere, C, (eds.)
Sustainable Design and Urban Regeneration.
(pp. pp. 647-660).
U + D Edition Rome: Rome, Italy.
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Abstract
Informal settlements are an increasing global phenomenon. Since the mid-century Rio de Janeiro went through a series of paradigmatic changes, trying to cope with this phenomenon. The scope of these interventions ranged from entire eradications of these settlements in the 1960s to present in situ programmes of infrastructural upgrades. Up to now favelas are seen as independent parts of the city, spatial manifestations of urban poverty and intra-urban inequality in the need to be solved. Even recent attempts to integrate favelas socially and spatially with the city failed to remove the physical and conceptual boundaries between the formal and the informal. Underlying these approaches is the perception of those areas as something different, rather than an integral element of the complex urban system. Trying to overcome the fragmentation of the city this study combines formal and informal parts into an integrated model of the whole city. Following a syntactical analysis using GIS mapping and space syntax, this study explores the morphology of favelas in the context of metropolitan Rio throughout different scales and in relation to their topographic location. 60 different local areas are then selected and compared against each other according to their configurational characteristics. The analytic results highlight the affordances and constrains of informal and formal structures. Understanding the particularities of those two differently perceived systems and the ways in which they interact with each other can inform future analysis and policymaking.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Understanding the City as a Whole: An Integrative Analysis of Rio de Janeiro and its Informal Settlements |
| Event: | 22nd International Seminar on Urban Form |
| Location: | Rome, Italy |
| Dates: | 22 September 2015 - 26 September 2015 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://issuu.com/urbanform/docs/volume_1_part_2_i... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1555691 |
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