Mutirão

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“…During this period, members of São Francisco's 'community from zero' was divided up into work canteens composed of to-be residents and municipal engineers, each of which built starter housing that was serviced with infrastructural plenums, and as is typical with 'sites and services' developments elsewhere (Laquian, 1983;Felipe, 1997). Resident members of each work group subsequently adapted and expanded the starter house across a slightly larger lot (Stiphany, 2019a). As they did, the land surrounding São Francisco's mutirão was occupied by illegal invasions, which continues to be the case today.…”

Incremental production of urban space: A typology of informal design

“…468-470). The bulk of this research has been undertaken in the context of Latin American cities (Bazant, 2003;Peek, 2015;Peek, Hordijk, & d'Auria, 2018;Stiphany, 2019;Ward, Jiménez Huerta, & Di Virgilio, 2015;Ward, Jiménez Huerta, & Di Virgilio, 2014). Drawing on evidence from Egyptian cities, Soliman (2010, p. 136) has identified several steps in the process of incremental housing: construction of walls to demarcate plot perimeters, construction of a room to enable a de facto recognition of tenure, horizontal addition of extra room(s), vertical extension of existing buildings, and connection to electricity/water supply to enable a de jure recognition.…”