Dynamics and Resilience of Informal Areas

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