Scenarios Actions Mechanisms and tools

UN-Habitat Support to Sustainable Urban Development in Kenya Addressing Urban Informality (UN-Habitat, 2016)

Digital platforms for urban plannig

Decidim.org

Up-grading the informal RE-using the formal

1. Mapping and profiling all informal settlements to understand how they develop and grow over time, their availability of public amenities and facilities, how they sat in the landscape, and their ways to connect to the city.

2.Through participatory in-situ settlement upgrading as a cost-effective way to enable informal settlements to transform into dense and liveable places.

Profiling tools

Settlement Profiling tool a spatial analysis framework for settlements accomodating displaced populations. (UN-Habitat,2020)

Urban Profiling Manual (UN-Habitat,2020)

Participatory slums upgrading

Practical guide to designing, planing,and implementing citywide slum upgrading programs (UN-Habitat, 2020)

Caribbean Strategy for Informal Settlements Upgrading (UN-Habitat, 2020)

1. Make use of the many secondary units that exist within the city,such as garages, warehouses, unused buildings, abandoned insdustries plots

Adaptive reuse

Re-using existing structures can saved time and resources compared to building completely new spaces

Program

Scenarios Actions Mechanisms and tools

Adaptive reuse of office buildings: opportunities and risks of conversion into housing. Building Research and Information (42) 3, pp 381-390. Remøy, H. and T. van der Voordt (2014)

Reuse into housing Olivadese, R., H. Remøy, et al. (2017)

Adaptive reuse of office buildings into housing: opportunities and risks. Building Research & Information 42(3): 381-390. Remøy, H. and T. van der Voordt (2014).

Well-built housing

Informal housing as an affordable housing.

Ephemeral architecture

1. Allow the community and encourage architects to conceive an architecture with an expiration date that aims to meet specific moment's needs, and where new types of housing, materials, and technologies could be explored.