Dynamics and Resilience of Informal Areas : International Perspectives - Attia, Sahar; Shabka, Shahdan; Shafik, Zeinab; Ibrahim, Asmaa; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016)
Part I. Innovative Policies & Strategies to Informal Urbanism -- 1. Urbanization, Collective Action and Coping Strategies in Informal Areas of African Cities: A Polycentric Environmental Planning Perspective - Samson R. Akinola -- 2. From Informal To Formal: What Can Be Learned From Reviewing Fifty Years of Portuguese Models, Policies and Politics - Paulo Silva -- 3. Application of Upgrading Strategies and Urban Farming Principles to Mangueira Complex, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil - Alessandra Battisti -- 4. Slum Tourism: A Catalyst for Urban Development? Reflections from Cairo's Ashwa'iyat (informal areas) - Mennatuallah Hendawy -- 5. Between Formal Structure and Informal Practice Public Space as Catalyst of Change: a Case Study - Riccardo Maroso -- Part II. Production, Operation and the Life-World of Urban Space -- 6. Right to Urban Space in Post-revolution Cairo: A Study for Street Vending Phenomenon - Nezar A. Kafafy -- 7. Social Production of Urban Space in Informal Areas in the G.C.R "Missing Values & Probable Potential" - Randa A. Mahmoud -- 8. Operative Public Space for Informal Nairobi: The why not Junior Academy Experience - Silvia Cimini -- 9. "Slum" Upgrading In South Africa: Defamiliarising the Global Neighbourhood Aesthetic - Kristen Kornienko -- 10. Informal Urbanism as a Product of Socio-Cultural Expression: Insights from the Island Pacific - Paul Jones -- Part III. The Dynamics of Informal Settlements.-11. Top-Down and Bottom-Up Strategies for Housing and Poverty Alleviation in Indonesia: The PNPM Programme in Yogyakarta - Sonia Roitman -- 12. A South-South Dialogue on Housing; the Facilitator Model and its Limitations in Brazil and India - Hector Becerril -- 13. Residential Mobility in Egypt; a Must or a Myth - Rania Nasr Eldin -- 14. A Proposed Statistical Model for Real Estate Appraisal in Historical Mixed use - Asmaa Abdel Aty Mohamed Ibrahim -- 15. Water, Food and Energy Nexus, Investigating the Feasibility of the Concept through the Application of a Sustainable Sanitation System, the Case of Zerzara, Hurghada - Anas Alhowaily.
Keywords: Urban geography; Regional economics; Spatial economics; Sustainable development; Sociophysics; Econophysics; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Regional/Spatial Science; Sustainable Development; Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building