“In the energetic cities of the future, your most important business partners will be squatters, hawkers, smugglers and pirates. Get used to it."
Robert Neuwirth - Journalist, author, and investigative reporter
In February, Foresight For Development turns the spotlight on informal city futures .
Featured in Bibliozone this month is a collection of publications related to the future of informal cities. The selection of documents is partial and based on accessible material. Therefore, we would like to invite everyone to supplement our library with additional materials.
Here are the publications available in our library:
“The shanty city is by and large the real African city."
Prof Edgar Pieterse - South African Research Chair in Urban Policy & Director of African Center for Cities
The initiative is a survey of South Africa’s most relevant and innovative design and research projects, featuring explorations and interventions in the informal sector from across the country. The aim is to open up dialogue and discussion around the critical issues of informality and urban development. As such, the month-long exhibition was accompanied by a one-day seminar exploring the opportunities and challenges around informality.
The exhibition explores South Africa’s own conditions of informality by providing a showcase for the work being done locally to address these important issues; and it also provides a platform for comparison and an opportunity for peer-to-peer knowledge sharing.
The Informal City Dialogues is a year-long project supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and conducted by Forum for the Future. It homes in on six cities: Accra, Bangkok, Chennai, Lima, Manila and Nairobi. In each of these cities, it aims to foster a conversation about the informal urban realm, and how it can be cultivated and harnessed for the benefit of all.
