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Sustainable Urban Development and Globalization

New strategies for new challenges—with a focus on the Global South

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Editors:
  1. Agostino Petrillo

    1. Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

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  2. Paola Bellaviti

    1. Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

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  • Describes sustainable solutions to challenges posed by socioeconomic, environmental, and cultural changes associated with globalization
  • Focuses especially on rapid urbanization processes in countries of the Global South
  • Covers strategies in diverse sectors, including housing, education, cultural heritage, and land management in the context of climate change
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Research for Development (REDE)

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Table of contents (34 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxx
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  2. Urban Growth and Rising Socio-spatial Inequality: Research Pathways and Approaches to Urban Planning and Governance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Development Against Sustainability? Marrakech as a Case Study

      • Laura Montedoro
      Pages 3-16

    3. Metropolitan Public Realm Frameworks for Coastal East African Urbanization: The Case of Malindi Waterfront as Socio-Ecological Infrastructure

      • Alessandro Frigerio
      Pages 17-31

    4. Mobile Urbanity in Southern Africa. The Socio-Spatial Practices of Informal Cross-Border Traders Between Johannesburg and Maputo

      • Paola Piscitelli
      Pages 33-47

    5. Humanizing Urbanism. On Embracing Informality and the Future of Johannesburg

      • Costanza La Mantia
      Pages 49-63

    6. Urban Planning in Islamabad: From the Modern Movement to the Contemporary Urban Development Between Formal and Informal Settlements

      • Daniele Beacco
      Pages 65-74

    7. Pacification of Favelas, Mega Events, and the Creation of New Inequalities in the Global South: The Case of Rio de Janeiro

      • Sebastian Saborio, Giuliana Costa
      Pages 75-84

    8. The Role of State Involvement in Slum Improvement: A Critical Examination of Cofopri Approach into a Peripheral Barrio of Lima, Peru

      • Nilva Karenina Aramburu Guevara
      Pages 85-97

    9. Undergrowth Urbanism: The Role of User-Generated Practices in the Informal City. A Methodology for Analysis and Intervention Based on the Case Study of Paraisópolis in São Paulo

      • Valentina Mion
      Pages 99-116

    10. Share for Care. Communication Technologies and Social Inclusion for Empowerment in Guayaquil, Ecuador

      • Veronica Vasilescu, Francesca Vigotti, Andrea Cominola
      Pages 117-130

    11. Enhancing Participation Through ICTs: How Modern Information Technologies Can Improve Participatory Approaches Fostering Sustainable Development

      • Domenico Vito
      Pages 131-145

  3. Design Strategies and Building Techniques for Development in Marginal and Rural Areas

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
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    2. Architectural Design in the Cities of the Global South

      • Camillo Magni
      Pages 149-155

    3. Bioclimatic Design for Informal Settlements

      • Gian Luca Brunetti
      Pages 157-171

    4. Housing in African Rural Contexts: The Nubian Vault. Opportunities for the Economic Market in the Rural Savannah Environments

      • Emilio Caravatti
      Pages 173-187

    5. National Public Primary Schools Strategic Planning: A Key Factor to Ensure Quality Education Enrollment in Developing Countries

      • Luca Bonifacio
      Pages 189-195

    6. The Tourism as Local Development Leverage: The Restaurant/Guest house of Olga’s and the Professional School YCTC in Livingstone, Zambia

      • Lidia Diappi
      Pages 197-208

    7. The Mantra of Modernity

      • Maddalena d’Alfonso, Jacopo Galli
      Pages 209-217

  4. Protection and Enhancement of Cultural Heritage Amid Conservation and Development

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      Pages 219-219
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About this book

This book equips readers with a deeper understanding of the challenges posed by radical socioeconomic, environmental, and cultural changes due to globalization and describes effective, sustainable solutions to these challenges. The focus is especially on the rapid urbanization processes in countries of the Global South, which are giving rise to dramatic new problems of spatial and social inequality and difficult environmental challenges in relation to climate change. Readers will gain skills and knowledge that will help them to develop an integrated, multidisciplinary approach to planning, design, and management of urban settlements and territories in contexts with a high level of social, economic, territorial, and landscape vulnerability. The coverage includes, for example, strategies to promote social inclusion, improve housing quality, ensure adequate education, protect cultural heritage, enhance risk management, and address issues in the food-energy-water nexus. Among the authors are leading experts from the Polytechnic University of Milan, where a multidisciplinary set of studies and research projects in the field have been undertaken in recent years.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

    Agostino Petrillo, Paola Bellaviti

About the editors

Paola Bellaviti, BA (Hons, cum laude) (Architecture), PhD (Urban Planning), has had a long career as a researcher on housing and urban policies and participatory approaches to design and planning. She has worked both within academic settings (Politecnico di Milano; Politecnico di Torino; IUAV, Venice) and at other research centers of national relevance. In 2001 she joined the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU) at the Politecnico di Milano, where she coordinates research programs, often international, focused on collaborative-participatory urban planning methods to improve living conditions and well-being in urban areas, especially in more marginalized contexts. In more recent years she has coordinated the activities of the Laboratory for International Cooperation at DAStU, applying approaches and tools for inclusive and sustainable urban development in countries of the Global South. She has also had a significant and continuing career as an Adjunct Professor on various courses and is the author of numerous book chapters and journal articles.

Agostino Petrillo, BA (Hons, cum laude) (Architecture, Philosophy), PhD (Sociology), is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU), Politecnico di Milano, Italy, where he teaches courses on Urban Sociology, Sociology, and Sociology of the Environment. Dr. Petrillo is a member of the editorial or scientific boards and a reviewer for a number of Italian journals. He is also a scientific board or doctoral college member for various academic and scientific associations. His research work focuses on cities, urban conflicts, globalization, and immigration. Dr. Petrillo has participated in international research projects such as the 2001 Program Interreg IIC on Metropolization and Peripheries (in collaboration with Genoa University) and Tresegy (2009): Transnational Research on second generation youth in Europe. He has authored seven books on subjects in his field


and co-edited a further three. He is also the author of many journal articles and book chapters.

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