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On urban peripheries, available at: https://utorontopress.com/9781487531065/after-suburbia/

After Suburbia presents a cross-section of state-of-the-art scholarship in critical global suburban research and provides an in-depth study of the planet’s urban peripheries to grasp the forms of urbanization in the twenty-first century.

Based on cutting-edge conceptual thought and steeped in richly detailed empirical work conducted over the past decade, After Suburbia draws on research from Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, and the Americas to showcase comprehensive global scholarship on the urban periphery. Contributors explicitly reject the traditional centre-periphery dichotomy and the prioritization of epistemologies that favour the Global North, especially North American cases, over other experiences. In doing so, the book strongly advances the notion of a post-suburban reality in which traditional dynamics of urban extension outward from the centre are replaced by a set of complex contradictory developments. After Suburbia examines multiple centralities and diverse peripheries which mesh to produce a surprisingly contradictory and diverse metropolitan landscape.

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An excellent compendium of cases of urban governance and planning in African cities. Open source 🎈:https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-031-06550-7.pdf

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An interesting one for those working in emerging countries:

In many rapidly urbanizing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, local politics undermines the effectiveness of urban planning. Politicians have incentives to ignore formal urban plans and sideline planners, and instead provide urban land and services through informal channels in order to cultivate political constituencies (a form of what political scientists refer to as “clientelism”). This results in inequitable and environmentally damaging patterns of urban growth in some of the largest and most rapidly urbanizing countries in the world. The technocratic planning solutions often advocated by governments and international development organizations are not enough. To overcome this problem, urban planners must understand and adapt to the complex politics of urban informality.

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It is now available the Instant Book ‘Figuig. Oasis du Futur’, result of the June 2022 workshop in Morocco at:https://www.ilaud.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Figuig_Instant-Book_2022.pdf

Thanks to Lorenzo Mazzali for the new layout and graphic!

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Giorgi, Cattaneo, Flores Herrera, del Socorro Aceves Tarango (2022), Design for Vulnerable Communities,
The Urban Book Series, Springer Cham.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-96866-3

With 2 ILAUD Chapters:

#4 Ceccarelli & Guerrieri, A Pandemic of Vulnerability: Is Design a Painkiller or a Vaccine?

#13 Verdini & Dean, Climate Urbanism in the Post-pandemic World: Mapping Vulnerabilities and Exploring Community Activism in East London.

Get in touch for a copy of both chapters, for academic purposes only. DM here.

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Coming soon for MIT Press: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/just-urban-design

November 2022

ILAUD at WUF11

Presenting the Figuig Climate Studio at WUF11, the World Urban Forum in Katowice, UN-HABITAT.

A panel organized by GPEAN Global Planning Education Network & UNI Habitat.

Key message: The climate emergency pushes us to rethink planning paradigms and we need to co-develop new public narratives of inclusion, adaptation and resiliency.

If you are in Katowice at WUF11 join us on 30 June!

ILAUD at WUF11

World Urban Forum, Katowice
26-30 June

Climate Adaptation and Cultural Sustainability for Spatial Equity
Figuig: Oasis of the Future

Au revoir Maroc 🇲🇦

Figuig Climate Studio
31 May - 4 June 2022

And for the group: let’s celebrate our work on 24 June 2022 for a ILAUD catch up meeting on-line. Hope to see you all!