Learning from the Slums for the Development of Emerging Cities

This book deals with slums as a specific question and a central focus in urban planning. It radically reverses the official version of the history of world cities as narrated during decades: slums are not at the margin of the contemporary process of urban

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Jean-Claude Bolay Jérôme Chenal Yves Pedrazzini Editors

Learning from the Slums for the Development of Emerging Cities

GeoJournal Library Volume 119

Managing Editor Daniel Z. Sui, College Station, USA Founding Series Editor Wolf Tietze, Helmstedt, Germany Editorial Board Paul Claval, France Yehuda Gradus, Israel Sam Ock Park, South Korea Herman van der Wusten, The Netherlands

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/6007

Jean-Claude Bolay • Jérôme Chenal Yves Pedrazzini Editors

Learning from the Slums for the Development of Emerging Cities

Editors Jean-Claude Bolay Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Lausanne, Switzerland

Jérôme Chenal Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Lausanne, Switzerland

Yves Pedrazzini Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Lausanne, Switzerland

Springer excludes French language rights, which will remain with the Editor. ISSN 0924-5499 ISSN 2215-0072 (electronic) GeoJournal Library ISBN 978-3-319-31792-2 ISBN 978-3-319-31794-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-31794-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016944003 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland

Contents

Part I 1

Introduction

Slums and Precarity in Developing Countries ..................................... Jean-Claude Bolay, Jérôme Chenal, and Yves Pedrazzini

Part II

3

Spatial Typology of Slums: Confronting the Dogmatic and the Obvious

2

Slums: Note for an Urban Theory ......................................................... Yves Pedrazzini, Jérôme Chenal, and Jean-Claude Bolay

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3

Tentative Classification of Various Slum Types ................................... Jérôme Chenal, Yves Pedrazzini, and Jean-Claude Bolay

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Part III

Case Studies

4

Reading Case Studies.................................

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