Miscellaneous
In this episode, join Brittany, Ali, Lubna, and Victoria as we discuss informal settlements as both sites of state neglect and community innovation. Informal settlements manifest extraordinary creative resourcefulness in establishing their own self-regulating service provision, entrepreneurship, and governance. Theorizing the slum as an agent of urban transformation reveals another layer of what the modern city can be – socially, culturally, economically, and materially. For current and future city builders, the so-called rehabilitation of the slums must mean learning how to integrate them into the city.