Abstract
Precarious housing -slums and informal settlements- represents a key challenge, both for academia and the policy community involved in the design and decision making processes related to the finance, regulation and intervention in the built environment. The main theoretical approaches that have been developed to describe the emergence and state interventions in informal settlements during the twentieth century have been unable to catch up with the scale, complexity and multifaceted socio-environmental entanglements between contemporary slums and cities. The justification behind the creation of the Center for Studies on Slums is to fill this gap, generate and disseminate new knowledge to increase our understanding of the phenomenon, as well as the limits and potential of upgrading programs and policies in the contemporary urban setting. It will do so through a work plan that articulates three dimensions: (i) Slum analytics and modeling; (ii) Slum dynamics in critical urban studies; and (iii) Statecraft for slum upgrading. (AU)
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