Empowering informal settlements in Jakarta with urban agriculture: exploring a community-based approach

Nie, Xuanyi

doi:10.1080/17535069.2021.1940029

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“…It should be noted that the findings and policy implications of this research are context specific and need site-specific analysis before being replicated in other countries or regions. First, Chinese urban villages exhibit uniqueness compared to other informal settlements characterized as illegal or temporary invasions and shortage of services provision in Latin America, southeast Europe, and some countries in Asia [ 78 , 79 , 80 ]. Chinese urban villages distinguish themselves at least with their rural social life, stable kinship ties, and characteristic village textures, which are conceived as a form of informality and derived from the villages’ long cultural histories, believed to be an engine for further development of urbanization.…”

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Examining the Planning Policies of Urban Villages Guided by China’s New-Type Urbanization: A Case Study of Hangzhou City

Zhang

Han

et al. 2022

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Planning policies have greatly influenced the development of urban villages, an informal phenomenon in which rural settlements are encircled by urban environments during China’s rapid urbanization process. “The National New-type Urbanization Plan (2014–2020)” of China initiated in 2014 provides a new perspective on planning policy research on China’ urban villages. Hangzhou, a pioneer city that adopts new-type urbanization in China and combines the characteristics of rapid urban growth, mountainous urban terrains, and a long cultural history, serves as a typical case study to compare the planning policies responding to the informality of urban villages guided by traditional and new-type urbanization. This study employed the content analysis method to analyze the evolution of Hangzhou’s planning policies of urban villages since the reform and opening up and used one-way ANOVA to analyze the differences in rental levels among the urban villages developed under the planning policies of different urbanization stages, aiming to compare the influences of planning policies guided by traditional and new-type urbanization on urban village development. The results indicate that the policies allowing some degree of informality in the new-type urbanization stage achieve a higher rental level for urban villages than the policies of the traditional urbanization stages that restrict and prevent informality. The findings of this research suggest that informality may provide advantages that formality cannot replace and provides important policy implications for rapidly urbanizing countries.

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Examining the Planning Policies of Urban Villages Guided by China’s New-Type Urbanization: A Case Study of Hangzhou City

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Han

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“…However, UI scholarship has presented unbalanced analyses of policy responses to the two disparate subsets of informality. It engages with state responses to informal housing for low-income communities by examining adaptive interventions – including infrastructure upgrading (Turner, 1972), aesthetics-based governance (Ghertner, 2010) and pro-environmental interventions (Jabeen and Guy, 2015; Nie, 2021) – as an alternative to forced eviction in pursuit of housing equity (Chien, 2018; Roy, 2005; Wigle, 2014). However, this scholarship implicitly co-opts the politics of connivance encouraging state–business complicity in speculative housing informality because it has not highlighted flexible-yet-just engagements with desire-based forms of informal housing (McFarlane, 2012; Mohammad et al, 2021; Roy, 2011).…”

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“…In sum, the rationales of local states tolerating some types or parts of informality over others, regardless of demographic variation, and the subsequent state actions regarding them depend on the suitability of the housing and the degree of the construction’s externality in terms of environmental risk and additional carbon footprint. Therefore, the ‘environment’ has always played a key role in policies and protocols, and the criteria and standards regarding the evaluation of informality often link these buildings to the natural world, situating them within the environmental context (Chiu, 2020; Jabeen and Guy, 2015; Nie, 2021). Whether the state can rework the negative or potentially positive properties of the materiality inherent in extralegal buildings into use or exchange values influences how a country or city discursively constructs informality and embeds it within its political economy.…”

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Greening informality through metabolic coordination: An urban political ecology of governing extralegal housing forms in Taiwan

Chiu

2023

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Despite its significance in informing inclusive political interventions in informal settlements in different political economic contexts, the urban informality literature falls short in exploring state intervention in or policy responses towards desire-based informal housing forms characterised by extralegal construction. This article uses Kaohsiung City in Taiwan as a case study to explore how the local government has collaborated with the private sector to govern the extralegal construction prevailing in community buildings. These interventions include the use of rooftop solar power systems aimed at remodelling existing buildings and green building design prototypes created to prevent future informalities. Using an urban political ecology lens, I analyse how the municipality appropriates the values and properties of solar power systems and green architecture to unite actors, relating extralegal construction to urban metabolism. I develop the concept of ‘metabolic coordination’ to show how the state coordinates actors, resources, technologies and capital to embed an internal circuit of funding flows governing extralegal construction in a larger external circuit of capital circulation consisting of growing solar photovoltaic and green housing markets. The adopted lens of urban political ecology interrogates three interrelated aspects of embedding informality in renewed urban space: municipal interventions remaking informalities, property-led greening of informalities and its negotiation, and inequality in accessing interventions. The city uses pragmatic and adaptive approaches to control extralegal construction. These approaches allow the city to leverage informality for growth and sustainability. However, the governing schemes create new forms of injustice and inequality.

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Analysis of contextual factors influencing the development of unplanned settlements: The case of Herat City, Afghanistan

Hanif,

Zakiri,

Mirzahi

et al. 2024

City, Culture and Society

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Empowering informal settlements in Jakarta with urban agriculture: exploring a community-based approach

Cited by 5 publications

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Examining the Planning Policies of Urban Villages Guided by China’s New-Type Urbanization: A Case Study of Hangzhou City

Examining the Planning Policies of Urban Villages Guided by China’s New-Type Urbanization: A Case Study of Hangzhou City

Greening informality through metabolic coordination: An urban political ecology of governing extralegal housing forms in Taiwan

Analysis of contextual factors influencing the development of unplanned settlements: The case of Herat City, Afghanistan

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