Understanding temporary appropriation and the streetscape design

Science and Urban Planning In Times of Climate Crises

“…Globally, the informal sector is estimated to account for over 60% of urban-city activities, with the vast majority of jobs in many of the world's emerging economies considered informal (http: //www.oxfordmartin .ox.ac.uk / about /). This last observation, corroborated by recent studies on the temporary appropriation of public spaces Lara Hernandez et al, 2020), implies that a large portion of urban settlements does not respond to the planned city logic and does not fall within the definition of slum. Thus, some form of dark, quantitatively and qualitatively significant, architecture exists.…”

“…As in physics, even in architecture the dark part, although marginalised by a dominant thought, is quantitatively greater than the known one and can be found anywhere: in the most distant regions; in the informal settlements of the southern hemisphere; and in the suburbs of western cities; The periphery of the world, therefore, does not belong to a specific region or city, but essentially concerns the prejudice towards non-deterministic design processes and the marginalization of diverse architectural manifestations. The images of "Architecture without Architects", El Houma of Algiers, the historic centre of Mexico City, and Shibam, Yemen, are just some of the infinite possible cases which demonstrate that indeterminism is a phenomenon that extends far beyond the informal urban fabric, and does not end with the phenomenology of the vernacular Lara Hernandez et al, 2020). Underestimation and disinterest in non-deterministic design are perhaps due to a reification of linear progress and human intelligence as a product of rationalism, both of which are fuelled by the 'mismeasure of man' (Gould, 1996).…”