..".a worthwhile and timely contribution to the field of Latin
American urban studies, which will help to fill the current gap in
literature on the Latin American city...this book's major
contribution is in its exploration of the social, spatial, cultural
and aesthetic processes which constitute the informal city, which
is (re)presented as fluid, dynamic, and most importantly, as part
of the city. This aspect should ensure its interest to scholars of
space and culture; as in rethinking the informal city, we are
forced to re-evaluate our understandings of the city itself." .
Space and Culture
Latin American cities have always been characterized by a strong
tension between what is vaguely described as their formal and
informal dimensions. However, the terms formal and informal refer
not only to the physical aspect of cities but also to their entire
socio-political fabric. Informal cities and settlements exceed the
structures of order, control and homogeneity that one expects to
find in a formal city; therefore the contributors to this volume -
from such disciplines as architecture, urban planning,
anthropology, urban design, cultural and urban studies and
sociology - focus on alternative methods of analysis in order to
study the phenomenon of urban informality. This book provides a
thorough review of the work that is currently being carried out by
scholars, practitioners and governmental institutions, in and
outside Latin America, on the question of informal cities.
Felipe Hernandez is an Architect and lecturer in architectural
design, history and theory at the University of Cambridge. He has
an MA in Architecture and Critical Theory and received his PhD from
the University of Nottingham. He taught previously in the School of
Architecture at the University of Liverpool, and has also taught at
the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), the Universities of
Nottingham, East London and Nottingham Trent. Felipe Hernandez has
published extensively on contemporary Latin American cities,
focusing on the multiplicity of architectural practices that
operate simultaneously in the constant re-shaping of the
continent's cities. He is the author of "Beyond Modernist Masters:
Contemporary Architecture in Latin America" (Birkhauser 2009) and
"Bhabha for Architects" (Routledge 2009) and co-editor of
"Transculturation: Cities, Space and Architecture in Latin America"
(Rodopi 2005).
Peter Kellett is senior lecturer in the School of Architecture,
Planning and Landscape at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He
is a qualified architect with an M.A. in Social Anthropology and
has worked and researched in Latin America for many years. His
Ph.D. is an ethnographic study of informal housing processes in
northern Colombia, and his research continues to focus largely on
housing, particularly on understanding how disadvantaged households
create, use and value dwelling environments in cities in the
developing world. He has lectured and published widely, and in
addition to his work in Latin America he has worked on large
comparative research projects in Asia and Africa, as well as in the
U.K.
Lea Knudsen Allen completed her Ph.D. in the Department of
English Literatures and Cultures at Brown University. She has
worked extensively on issues to do with postcolonial discourse,
transmigration and cultural representation. Her doctoral thesis,
entitled 'Cosmopolite Subjectivities and the Mediterranean in Early
Modern England', explored these topics in the context of early
modern English drama, poetry and travel literature. She has
published on exoticism and international trade in the work of
Jonson and Marlowe. Additionally, Allen has an interest in
representations of urban and social space, a topic on which she has
also published. Currently Lea lives in the United Kingdom and
teaches for the Universities of Maine (USA) and Liverpool (UK).
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