Palgrave Handbook of Bottom-Up Urbanism

Mahyar Arefi is Professor of Planning at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA. He received his PhD in Planning from the University of Southern California. His publications have appeared in edited volumes and peer-reviewed flagship journals. Conrad Kickert is Assistant Professor of Urban Design at the University of Cincinnati, USA. He has worked as an urban researcher and designer in The Netherlands, the UK, and the USA.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Insurgency Meets Institution in Urban Placemaking.- 3. Guerrilla Architecture & Humanitarian Design.- 4. The Practice of Urbanism: From Public Participation to Community Development.- 5. Lean Urbanism is About Making Small Possible.- 6. Informal Urbanism and the American City.- 7. DIY Neighborhoods.- 8. The Self-Made City: Alternative Living and Urban Development Models.- 9. Bottom-up urbanism in Greece.- 10. Making Good Urbanism in Central Africa.- 11. New Trends in Bottom-up Urbanism & Governance: Reformulating Ways For   Municipalities to Engage with Citizen-Led Urban Initiatives.- 12. Unplanned Creativity? Islam, Muslims and Urban Innovation in Germany.- 13. Endurance, Compliance, Victory: Learning from Informal Settlements in Five Iranian Cities.- 14. Space, Time & Agency on the Indian Street.