Order and Disorder in Urban Space and Form

Paul Jenkins is Emeritus Professor of Architecture Research at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and Visiting Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He has also been a visiting professor in São Paulo, Brazil, and Maputo, Mozambique. For five decades he has engaged with a wide range of aspects of the built environment: architecture, construction, housing, planning, urban design and wider social studies. Much of his work has focused on sub-Saharan Africa, where he has been based for more than half of his working life, and he focuses on social engagement and cultural change in the ‘urban’, including the role of different forms of knowledge. He has published extensively, including three prior books with Routledge. Now retired, he lives primarily in Maputo, Mozambique. Harry Smith is Professor of Global Urbanism at The Urban Institute, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland. He has over 30 years of experience working with urban design and development issues, having worked as an architect and planner in the Global North and then having become an academic engaged in urban research in Europe, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. Much of his research has focused on issues in so-called ‘informal’ settlements – ranging from housing, through access to land, to community-based disaster risk management – and has often taken an action-research approach linked to achieving changes in policy and practice. He has published previously with Routledge on planning and housing in the rapidly urbanising world, waterfront regeneration, and place-keeping.

1. The beginnings of ordering urban space and form in the modern era 2. Aspiring to polite society: the transfer of Enlightenment urban design to Rio de Janeiro 3. Garden city planning is translated into São Paulo 4. The Functional city and Brasília 5. Functionalism translated into Brazil and then re-exported: Curitiba 6. Parallel innovations in urban space and form: Alphaville in Brazil and New Urbanism in the United States 7. Innovations in engaging with urban disorder in Brazil: slum upgrading 8. A change of focus from physical to social urban order in Brazil: the right to the city and participatory planning 9. New forms of urbanism re-exported: gated communities, waterfronts and consumerism-oriented order in Angola 10. Understanding order and disorder in urban space and form: discourse and praxis