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ItemInformal Settlement as a Mode of Production(Routledge, 2019-05-29)The essays in this volume are organized in three parts: Part I: Comparative Urbanism; Part II: Challenges; and Part III: Opportunities.
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ItemIncremental urbanisms(Routledge, 2017-01-01)Those who have studied the micro-morphology include Arefi (2011), Bhatt and Rybczynski (2003) and Ribeiro (1997). Informal settlements are mostly undocumented (Patel and Baptist 2012; Robinson 2002), yet documentation is critical for any kind of integration with the formal city.
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ItemAssembling Architecture(EDINBURGH UNIV PRESS, 2013)
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ItemInformalising Architecture: The Challenge of Informal Settlements(Wiley - John Wiley & Sons, 2013)Abstract Transgression is often driven by the power to exercise choice and consciously cross the line. As Kim Dovey, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Melbourne, explains, informal settlements, which have grown up globally out of immediate need for shelter and community, and are legally precarious, transgress established codes of ‘land tenure, urban planning, design and construction’. Their condition requires transgression, even if they are subversion through necessity rather than by design. So what is architecture's future role in informal settlements? And what can be learnt from this more ad hoc and incremental model of urban design?
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ItemPlace as Multiplicity(ROUTLEDGE, 2016)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableInformal Settlement and Assemblage Theory(Sage Publications, 2017)
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ItemGraffiti as character(Taylor & Francis, 2017)In order to explore the relationships between graffiti and urban character, it is worth revisiting briefly the debates over graffiti’s status as vandalismversus-art. Here, it is worth noting that vandalism and art are commonly defined as opposites (destruction versus creation), yet both can also be seen as different forms of transgression. While vandalism transgresses the law, art transgresses normal ways of seeing the world. With authorised public art serving instrumental roles such as place branding, stimulating consumption or celebrating history, graffiti is often the most transgressive of public arts. The criminality of graffiti is based on a perception of violated property rights and of damage to neighbourhood image or place identity. Yet neither the ownership of blank urban walls nor questions of place identity are stable concepts. The question of vandalism-versus-art calls for an interrogation of conceptions and experiences of place.
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ItemTransport in suburbia(Taylor & Francis, 2017)Everyday urban life involves multiple choices of transport mode, route path and time budgets as individuals seek to move between places and projects in various parts of any city. In this chapter we map the time/space zones of accessibility (isochrones) as a means to understand the ways we make choices between modes - a space/time phenomenology of everyday mobility. Harvesting data from Google Maps and other online sources, we map isochrones for four primary transport modes - car, public transport, walking and cycling - and the inevitable mix between them. We seek to map the morphological and infrastructural conditions under which people may choose public transport and active modes of walking and cycling over the private car. This is also a form of design research in that we test the ways in which designed infrastructural change can transform the accessibility of the city. Our case studies are in the suburbs of Melbourne under conditions of high car-dependency and low public transport provision.
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ItemUrban Design Pedagogy(Routledge, 2017)This chapter is an account of the use of urban mapping to introduce undergraduate students to spatial analysis and urban design thinking - to multiple ways of seeing, observing and analysing the city. A key task here is to prevent students from reducing the city to any 'correct' way of seeing or analysing it. There is no one thing that explains cities, no single way of designing them, no singular mapping of urbanity. All great cities are different and the best urban design teaching inspires lifelong learning about them.
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ItemThe City as a Mix of Mixes(Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne, 2016)