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Interfaces of informality: when experts meet informal settlers

dc.contributor.authorAscensão, Eduardo
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-10T12:01:03Z
dc.date.available2018-12-10T12:01:03Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractWhat happens at the interface of states and urban poor populations that live in informal settlements? How are academic disciplines, such as law, architecture or economics, and technical instruments, such as computer software, summoned to the interactions between experts from state or city governments and the laypeople whose housing and lives the former’s work is meant to improve? This paper reflects on these questions as it examines two different experiments, one historical and another from the recent past, in housing provision or amelioration for the residents of informal settlements. In post-revolutionary Portugal, the SAAL (Servic¸o de Apoio Ambulato´ rio Local) housing program (1974–76) included ‘technical’ brigades of legal, architectural and economic experts tasked to help shanty town dwellers improve their housing conditions, either by assisted self-building or classic new-build. It was a clear example of the progressive urban politics of the time, or dialogical technical democracy avant la lettre. Some 30 years later, in Lisbon during the late 2000s, as a part of an urban regeneration program devised within the framework of multicultural urban politics and delegative forms of democracy, a detailed survey of non- and sub-standard houses was carried out with a bespoke computer software, which aimed at representing the technical feasibility of rehabilitation, rather than replacement, of those dwellings. Both experiments constituted platforms with the stated objective of working for the community and through which new state–citizen relationships were to be forged with the urban poor, but how were the latter’s knowledges and wishes integrated?pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationAscensão, Eduardo. (2016). Interfaces of informality: when experts meet informal settlers. City, 20(4), 563-580. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2016.1193337pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13604813.2016.1193337pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn1360-4813
dc.identifier.issn1470-3629
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/35731
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherTaylor & Francispt_PT
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13604813.2016.1193337?needAccess=truept_PT
dc.subjectUrban informalitypt_PT
dc.subjectState interventionpt_PT
dc.subjectExperts and slum dwellerspt_PT
dc.subjectAssisted selfbuildingpt_PT
dc.subjectAssessment of non-standard housingpt_PT
dc.titleInterfaces of informality: when experts meet informal settlerspt_PT
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.endPage580pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue4pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage563pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleCitypt_PT
oaire.citation.volume20pt_PT
person.familyNameAscensão
person.givenNameEduardo
person.identifier.ciencia-idD511-F457-05D8
person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-1927-359X
person.identifier.ridJ-4619-2013
person.identifier.scopus-author-id55754869800
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typearticlept_PT
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