Title & Author:

Cidade de Deus! : working with informalized mass housing in Brazil / Georgios Anagnostakis [and others] ; MAS Urban Design ; [edited by Marc Angélil & Rainer Hehl in collaboration with Something Fantastic].

Publication:

Berlin : Ruby Press, [2013]
©2013.

Description:

352 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 27 cm

Notes:
"The content of this publication was realized by students of the Master of Advanced Studies in Urban Design at ETH Zurich"--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references.
Photo essay -- Cidade de Deus -- CDD past present context : Incremental urbanism ; Some buildings in CDD ; CDD history ; Standardized mass housing in Brazil ; Cingapura ; Our city, our life -- CDD visions futures prospects : Cidade de Deus +20 ; Advocating the compact city -- Rio as hybrid network city -- Jacarepaguá -- CDD as iconic condenser -- Channeling the informal -- Grafting the informal -- Underpinning the informal -- Stratifying the informal -- Luring the informal -- Upgrading the multi-family house -- Upgrading the modernist slab -- CDD techniques materials devices : Technology exchange.
Text in English and Spanish.

Summary:

Rio de Janeiro serves as the inspiration and case study for this publication, a widely relevant study of the appropriation and customization of standardized mass housing over time. The citys once notorious favelas, which grew out of a government housing programme, are today safe and vibrant neighbourhoods, not to mention a viable counter-model to gated condominiums. This research-based design study from the ETH Zurich unpacks the implications of the hybrid environment of Cidade de Deus as it exists today. What results is a model for improving mass housing programmes using the ingenuity of informal practices a model that is also globally applicable.

ISBN:

9783944074023 (pbk.)
3944074025 (pbk.)

Subject:

Working class Dwellings Brazil Rio de Janeiro.
Architecture Brazil Rio de Janeiro.
Public housing Brazil Rio de Janeiro.
City planning Brazil Rio de Janeiro.
Slums Brazil Rio de Janeiro.
Travailleurs Habitations Brésil Rio de Janeiro.
Logement social Brésil Rio de Janeiro.
Architecture.
City planning.
Public housing.
Slums.
Working class Dwellings.
Cidade de Deus (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Brazil Rio de Janeiro.
Brazil Rio de Janeiro Cidade de Deus.
Cidade de Deus (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Buildings, structures, etc.
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Buildings, structures, etc.

Added entries:

Anagnostakis, Georgios, 1985-
Angelil, Marc M.
Hehl, Rainer.
Something Fantastic (Firm)
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich.

English title from cover: City of God!
Working with informalized mass housing in Brazil

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283024
Call No.: BIB 220994
Status: Available