Professor Kim Dovey

Professor of Architecture and Urban Design; Director, the Informal Urbanism Research Hub Infur–, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne

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Environment

Informal settlements are where cities are made

Far from the superficial notion of ‘slums’, informal settlements shape urban development across most of the world’s cities

Environment

Transforming informal settlements

Informal settlements house over a billion people in cities of the Global South; it’s time to maximise their potential as diverse and dynamic neighbourhoods