Linking the Formal and Informal: Favela Urbanisation and Social Housing in São Paulo
São Paulo is Brazil's largest city with over 20 million inhabitants, 14 per cent of which live in informal settlements. Here author, critic and editor Fernando Serapião describes various housing initiatives led by Elisabete França during her two stints at the city's Secretaria de Habitação...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Architectural design 2016-05, Vol.86 (3), p.70-79 |
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Zusammenfassung: | São Paulo is Brazil's largest city with over 20 million inhabitants, 14 per cent of which live in informal settlements. Here author, critic and editor Fernando Serapião describes various housing initiatives led by Elisabete França during her two stints at the city's Secretaria de Habitação (SEHAB – Housing Secretariat), which employed design as a tool to upgrade and more fully integrate the city's favelas in the formal city. |
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ISSN: | 0003-8504 1554-2769 |
DOI: | 10.1002/ad.2048 |