This interdisciplinary seminar series on Informal Settlements and Health will explore the complex relationships between informal urbanization and health, with a focus on urban areas across Latin America. The series brings together faculty, students, and invited speakers from public health, urban planning, and the social sciences to examine how structural, spatial, and environmental factors intersect with health outcomes in informal settlements and other precarious urban contexts.
The series is co-sponsored by the Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for Health Equity in Latin America, the Center on Climate Change and Urbanism, and the Program on Sustainable Urbanism at the Tulane School of Architecture and the Built Environment.
H. J. Pando, “Historia Urbana de Buenos Aires”, Diseño 2014. See chapter VII “El Medio Ambiente y el Habitat Construido”, pages 420-436 (document attached).
Description of the origin and different cases on informal settlements in Buenos Aires that represent a similar set of issues shared by many other similar cases in Latin America and the world. Its focus in the ‘Villas’ start in page 430, and it is important to notice that the informal settlement topic is part of the chapter “Environment and Built Environment”.
I. Alday, M. Jover, J. Arcos, F. Mesonero, “Cities and Rivers”, ACTAR 2023. See pages 294-307 (Elevated Park on Barrio 31 in Buenos Aires) and 308-317 (Kelani River Park) (document attached).
Design proposals for two case studies of informal settlements and urban-rural unplanned development under the threat of floods and their correspondent mitigation strategies.
More information here: https://actar.com/product/cities-rivers/.
Ch. Werthmann, J. Bridger, “Metropolis Nonformal”, AR+D, 2015. See Introduction. (Available at Howard Tilton library).
Overview of informal settlements of different typologies and origins, with a brief introduction framing the topic and a rich visual account of them. Multiple voices provide very short different points of view on the built environment and its social impact of informal settlements.
I. Alday, P.V. Gupta, “Yamuna River Project. New Delhi Urban Ecology”, ACTAR 2018. (Available at Howard Tilton library).
Holistic overview of the city of New Delhi, its ecologies, infrastructures and social fabric, in which climate change, informal settlements and loss of the commons play a critical role in the past and the future of the capital city of the world’s largest democracy.
More information here: https://yamunariverproject.wp.tulane.edu.
