Overview
- Highlights historically developed trends and approaches in the context of urban regeneration
- Methodologically structured and featuring revealing case studies
- Showcases the connections between Asia and Latin America, with theory and illustrations
Part of the book series: Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements (ACHS)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Infrastructure. Urban Regeneration Through Spatial Connection
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Public Space. Urban Regeneration Through Public Space
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Education and Pedagogy. Urban Regeneration Through Training
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Integrated Planning and Governance. Urban Regeneration Through Institutional Coordination
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Resilient Urban Regeneration in Informal Settlements in the Tropics
Book Subtitle: Upgrading Strategies in Asia and Latin America
Editors: Oscar Carracedo García-Villalba
Series Title: Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7307-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-7306-0Published: 16 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-7309-1Published: 17 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-7307-7Published: 15 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2198-2546
Series E-ISSN: 2198-2554
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIII, 207
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 36 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Sustainable Development, Human Geography, Economic Geography, Cultural Heritage