在许多发展中国家，各种各样的非正式和非合法的定居点——通常被称为棚户区、贫民窟或街垒——是城市土地利用的主要类型。联合国的估计表明，全世界有近9亿人居住在棚户区，这个数字在未来几十年预计还会增加。
拉丁美洲的非正规城市化调查了解决非正规住区问题的主流战略，在过去40年里，通过改善公共空间、基础设施和设施，非正规住区开始从大规模的贫民窟清理转向拉丁美洲的现场改造。这本书中的案例从一个微观干预（布宜诺斯艾利斯的维拉·坦莱纳项目）到三个大型政府运营项目：里约热内卢著名的贫民窟-拜罗项目，圣保罗的社会住房项目和麦德林著名的Proyectos Urbanos Integrates方法。这些案例展示了景观和公共空间的合作和敏感转变，并为设计师和规划师提供了工具，以制定更好的策略，缓解非正规社区居民面临的波动。这本书是所有对全球城市化和社会公平感兴趣或工作的人的必读读物。
Informal Urbanization in Latin America: Collaborative Transformations of Public Spaces
Various kinds of informal and extra-legal settlements―commonly called shantytowns, favelas, or barrios―are the prevailing type of urban land use in much of the developing world. United Nations estimates suggest that there are close to 900 million people living in squatter communities worldwide, with the number expected to increase in the coming decades.
Informal Urbanization in Latin America investigates prevailing strategies for addressing informal settlements, which started to shift away from large-scale slum clearance to on-site upgrading in Latin America over the last 40 years, by improving public spaces, infrastructure and facilities. The cases in this book range from one micro intervention (the Villa Tranquila Project in Buenos Aires) to three large-scale government-run projects: the celebrated Favela Bairro Program in Rio de Janeiro, the social housing program in São Paulo and the famous Proyectos Urbanos Integrales Approach in Medellín. The cases show a collaborative and sensitive transformation of landscape and public space, and provide designers and planners with the tools to develop better strategies that can mitigate the volatility that the residents of non-formal neighborhoods are exposed to. The book is a must-read for all who are interested or working in the global urbanization as well as social equity.
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