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Informal settlements in a COVID-19 world:moving beyond upgrading and envisioning revitalisation
The COVID-19 pandemic represents a turning point in the way things are done, globally and across sectors. We reflect on approaches to informal settlements and argue for a turn from ‘upgrading’ to ‘revitalisation’. We conceptualise revitalisation as encompassing three core tenets: planetary health, transdisciplinarity, and a people-centred approach. In our vision, revitalisation approaches would take a big-picture view of informal settlements that recognises the inter-connectedness of people and nature within complex urban systems; integrates perspectives from various academic disciplines, non-academic sectors, and communities for knowledge generation; and centres informal settlement residents and communities as experts and partners in urban praxis.
Informal settlements in a COVID-19 world:moving beyond upgrading and envisioning revitalisation
The COVID-19 pandemic represents a turning point in the way things are done, globally and across sectors. We reflect on approaches to informal settlements and argue for a turn from ‘upgrading’ to ‘revitalisation’. We conceptualise revitalisation as encompassing three core tenets: planetary health, transdisciplinarity, and a people-centred approach. In our vision, revitalisation approaches would take a big-picture view of informal settlements that recognises the inter-connectedness of people and nature within complex urban systems; integrates perspectives from various academic disciplines, non-academic sectors, and communities for knowledge generation; and centres informal settlement residents and communities as experts and partners in urban praxis.
Informal settlements in a COVID-19 world:moving beyond upgrading and envisioning revitalisation
French, Matthew (author) / Ramirez-Lovering, Diego (author) / Sinharoy, Sheela S. (author) / Turagabeci, Amelia (author) / Latif, Ihsan (author) / Leder, Karin (author) / Brown, Rebekah (author)
2021-01-01
French , M , Ramirez-Lovering , D , Sinharoy , S S , Turagabeci , A , Latif , I , Leder , K & Brown , R 2021 , ' Informal settlements in a COVID-19 world : moving beyond upgrading and envisioning revitalisation ' , Cities & Health , vol. 5 , no. Sup1 , pp. S52-S55 . https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2020.1812331
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