Planning and Design for Future Informal Settlements: Shaping the Self-Constructed City

This is the first book to address future informal settlements at the global scale. It argues that to foster favourable conditions for the sustainable evolution of future informal cities, planners must consider the same issues that are paramount in formal urban developments, such as provision of:

• balanced land uses
• energy efficiency and mobility
• water management and food sufficiency
• governance and community participation
• productivity and competitiveness
• identity and sense of place

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