TY - THES A1 - Manzano Gómez, Noel A. T1 - The reverse of urban planning. Towards a 20th century history of informal urbanization in Europe and its origins in Madrid and Paris (1850-1940) N2 - The objective of this thesis was to understand the 20th-century history of informal urbanisation in Europe and its origins in Madrid and Paris. The concept of informal urbanisation was employed to refer to the process of developing shacks and precarious single-family housing areas that were not planned by the public powers and were considered to be substandard because of their below-average materials and social characteristics. Our main hypothesis was that despite being a phenomenon with ancient roots, informal urbanisation emerged as a public problem and was subsequently prohibited in connection with another historical process occurred: the birth of contemporary urban planning. Therefore, its transformation into a deviant and illegal urban growth mechanism would have been a pan-European process occurring at the same pace that urban planning developed during the first decades of the 20th century. Analysing the 20th-century history of informal urbanisation in Europe was an ambitious task that required using a large number of sources. To contend with this issue, this thesis combined two main methods: historiographical research about informal urbanisation in Europe and archival research of two case studies, Madrid and Paris, to make the account more precise by analysing primary sources of the subject. Our research of these informal areas, which were produced mainly through poor private allotments and housing developed on land squats, revealed two key moments of explosive growth across Europe: the 1920s and 1960s. The near disappearance of informal urbanisation throughout the continent seemed to be a consequence not of the historical development of urban planning—which was commonly transgressed and bypassed—but of the exacerbation of global economic inequalities, permitting the development of a geography of privilege in Europe. Concerning the cases of Paris and Madrid, the origins of informal urbanisation—that is, the moment the issue started to be problematised—seemed to occur in the second half of the 19th century, when a number of hygienic norms and surveillance devices began to control housing characteristics. From that moment onwards, informal urbanisation areas formed peripheral belts in both cities. This growth became the object of an illegalisation process of which we have identified three phases: (i) the unregulated development of the phenomenon during the second half of the 20th century, (ii) the institutional production of “exception regulations” to permit a controlled development of substandard housing in the peripheral fringes of both cities, and (iii) the synchronic prohibition of informal urbanisation in the 1920s and its illegal reproduction. KW - Stadtplanung KW - Verstädterung KW - Historische Soziologie KW - Urban Planning KW - Informal Urbanization KW - Comparative History KW - Historical Sociology KW - European Urban Studies Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20220119-45693 ER - TY - THES A1 - Pantzier, Richard T1 - In Neuer Frische. Die Sommerfrische Schwarzatal als regional selbstbestimmte Form des historischen Phänomens Sommerfrische? N2 - Als Frühform des Tourismus war die Sommerfrische ab Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts eng mit der flächendeckenden Verstädterung in Mitteleuropa und der Herausbildung eines urbanen Bürgertums verknüpft. Nachdem sich der Begriff in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts im Sprachgebrauch verlor, erfährt er gegenwärtig - auch im Zuge einer neuen positiven Konnotation des Ländlichen - eine Art Renaissance. Im Schwarzatal als einer historischen Zielregion dieser Reisepraxis arbeitet der lokale Verein Zukunftswerkstatt Schwarzatal gemeinsam mit der IBA Thüringen an einer zeitgenössischen Form der Sommerfrische, die auch Antworten auf den tiefgreifenden Strukturwandel nach 1989 geben soll. Die Arbeit thematisiert die programmatische Renaissance der Sommerfrische im Schwarzatal und stellt sie dem historischen Phänomen der Sommerfrische des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts unter den drei Forschungsfragen gegenüber. Die Forschungsfragen nehmen Bezug auf die soziale, die materielle sowie die symbolische Dimension der Raumkonstitution beider Sommerfrischen, indem nach den jeweiligen Akteuren, den Regeln der physischen Umgestaltung sowie den hegemonialen Vorstellungen über die Zielorte gefragt wird. Die Arbeit ordnet sich entsprechend in eine sozialkonstruktivistische Geographie des Ländlichen ein. Sie gibt schließlich Auskunft darüber, warum es sich bei der Sommerfrische Schwarzatal um eine regional selbstbestimmte Form der Sommerfrische handelt. T3 - IfEU.OPEN - 4 KW - Sommerfrische KW - Stadt-Land-Beziehung KW - Thüringen KW - Verstädterung KW - Kulturlandschaft KW - Raumproduktion KW - historischer Vergleich Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20210924-45055 ER - TY - THES A1 - Kalugila, Shubira T1 - HOUSING INTERVENTIONS AND ITS INFLUENCE ON URBAN DEVELOPMENT: Opportunities and Challenges in Mixed Informal Settlements, in Dar es Salaam - Tanzania N2 - Rapid urbanisation that is not accompanied by socio-economic development strains the capacity of local and national governments to provide even basic services such as shelter. Informal settlements i.e. settlements not built or developed according to the formal regulations have become a solution to many urban dwellers in developing countries. In Tanzania informal settlements accommodate people from low, middle and high income groups. The study explores the nature of potentials and challenges posed by the existence of mixed socio-economic groups in informal settlements, including an assessment of what can be done to optimise utilisation of potentials and mitigation of conflicts. Using a case study strategy, the study was conducted in Dar es Salaam city focusing on Makongo mixed informal settlement. The results show that mixed informal settlements are as a result of several factors including uncoordinated energies of people. The urban development forces that bring change in the development of the city are stronger than the public states capacity to coordinate and manage them. Informal settlements also offer user-friendly land tenure, flexibility in house construction and proximity to livelihoods. Other factors include the nature of socio-economic living patterns and extension of urban boundaries. Community members operate using social norms. Advantages of mixed informal settlements include availability of plots according to needs and affordability while a disadvantage is, people of different socio-economic groups perceive problems differently. For policies to be effective, their formulation should be derived from what is happening on the ground i.e. addressing informal settlements according to their heterogeneity. Moreover, empowered local authorities can assist in implementing national development plans; also actors in land development including government institutions, non-governmental institutions, financial institutions, private sector, professionals, political leaders, research institutions, policy-makers and training institutions need to recognise, understand and respect each other’s roles, and pull resources together to minimise problems related to informality in land development; utilise potentials and minimise challenges in mixed informal settlements in Dar es Salaam. Key words: Informal settlements, land development, urbanisation KW - Informal Settlements KW - Land development KW - Verstädterung KW - Urbanität KW - Urbanisation KW - Landentwicklung Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20140902-22930 ER -