Date: June 19th, 2009

Retrofitting informal housing

19 June, 2009 (21:45) | Configuration, Embryo house, Global news, Innovations, Slums, Theory | No comments

If slums disappear only through conflagration (natural or man-made) or by assimilation into the formal city, then we will need to take existing informal housing and gradually formalize it.

Because you are what you live in, urbanization requires formality:

But as cities imply increasing physical density (more [...]