Resilient Urban Regeneration in Informal Settlements in the Tropics (eBook)

This book focuses on the implementation of slum upgrading projects and the last generation of citywide programmes that define the future urban configuration of informal settlements, from a citywide perspective, in the Earth's tropical region. The book presents a study on regeneration experiences in Asia and Latin America and it identifies important points of connection and similarities between the two cases, while also determining that, compared to Asia, informality in Latin America is in its 'second generation.'

Oscar Carracedo García-Villalba is an Architect, Urbanist and Educator, currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore. He is the director of the Master of Urban Design at NUS and director of the DRIA-Designing Resilience in Asia International Research Programme, where he develops his research on urban resilience, climate change, sustainability, integrated urban planning and informal urbanism practices and processes. His work explores the intersections between contemporary and future urbanization processes, climate change and sustainable futures, hybrid dense cities and urban resilience, and changing economies and societies.

Oscar is the author of numerous books and articles, and drawing on his rigorous research, he has recently published 'Designing Resilience in Asia. Planning the unpredictable, designing with uncertainty' (ACTAR, 2020), 'Silicon Singapore. Urban Projects for Hybrid and Resilient Innovation Districts' (Basheer, 2020), 'Ibid./ In the same place. Nine Lessons and Six Possibilities about On-site Resilient Revitalization Strategies for Informal Neighbourhoods' (ORO, 2016), 'Indus_ hoods. From industries to Neighbourhoods' (CASA-JTC-i3, 2016), and 'Naturban. Barcelona's Natural Park, A rediscovered relation' (CoAC, 2015), among other books. He has also co-edited the book 'Advanced Studies in Energy Efficiency and Built Environment for Developing Countries' (Springer, 2019).

Oscar has been invited to present as a keynote speaker in 14 countries worldwide including South Africa, Malaysia, Germany, Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, the  Philippines,  Ecuador,  Colombia,  and  Spain.  He has also lectured at many universities such as Pratt Institute (USA), Stevens Institute of Technology (USA), IUA di Venezia (Italy), TU Darmstadt (Germany), NCKU (Taiwan), PUCE (Ecuador), EAFIT Medellín (Colombia), King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (Thailand), Faculty of Architecture of the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), and Kyushu University (Japan) among others. He is also actively engaged as an expert with UN-Habitat, World Bank and many other reputable international institutions.

Oscar is also the CEO of CSArchitects, an urban planning, urban design and architecture firm based in Barcelona, Spain. Spanning over 20 years of international professional experience, he has been responsible for more than 60 masterplans  and urban-scale commissions, an extensive number of projects and consultancies in urban design, site, physical and spatial planning, over a dozen architecture and public space projects, as well as many projects with underprivileged communities. Oscar has won two national urban planning and design prizes, and his work and research has been awarded in more than 40 national and international competitions and published nationally and internationally.

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This book focuses on the implementation of slum upgrading projects and the last generation of citywide programmes that define the future urban configuration of informal settlements, from a citywide perspective, in the Earth's tropical region. The book presents a study on regeneration experiences in Asia and Latin America and it identifies important points of connection and similarities between the two cases, while also determining that, compared to Asia, informality in Latin America is in its 'second generation.'