Resilient Urban Regeneration in Informal Settlements in the Tropics

Introduction, findings, and reflections.- Part I: Infrastructure. Urban regeneration through spatial connection.- Street-led citywide slum upgrading: Connecting the informal and the formal city through area-based planning and infrastructure improvement.- Resilient slum upgrading in Indonesia. Improving spatial connections from bottom and top.- Part II: Public space. Urban regeneration through public space.- Regenerating informal settlements through mapping and public space: The case of BaSECo compound in Manila.- Medellín, urban renewal of informal settlements through public space: The case of the North-Eastern integral urban project (PUI).

Oscar Carracedo García-Villalba is an Architect, Urbanist and Educator, currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore. He is the director of the Master of Urban Design at NUS and director of the DRIA-Designing Resilience in Asia International Research Programme, where he develops his research on urban resilience, climate change, sustainability, integrated urban planning and informal urbanism practices and processes. His work explores the intersections between contemporary and future urbanization processes, climate change and sustainable futures, hybrid dense cities and urban resilience, and changing economies and societies.




Oscar is the author of numerous books and articles, and drawing on his rigorous research, he has recently published "Designing Resilience in Asia. Planning the unpredictable, designing with uncertainty" (ACTAR, 2020), "Silicon Singapore. Urban Projects for Hybrid and Resilient Innovation Districts" (Basheer, 2020), "Ibid./ In the same place. Nine Lessons and Six Possibilities about On-site Resilient Revitalization Strategies for Informal Neighbourhoods" (ORO, 2016), 'Indus_ hoods. From industries to Neighbourhoods' (CASA-JTC-i3, 2016), and 'Naturban. Barcelona's Natural Park, A rediscovered relation' (CoAC, 2015), among other books. He has also co-edited the book 'Advanced Studies in Energy Efficiency and Built Environment for Developing Countries' (Springer, 2019).




Oscar has been invited to present as a keynote speaker in 14 countries worldwide including South Africa, Malaysia, Germany, Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Ecuador, Colombia, and Spain. He has also lectured at many universities such as Pratt Institute (USA), Stevens Institute of Technology (USA), IUA di Venezia (Italy), TU Darmstadt (Germany), NCKU (Taiwan), PUCE (Ecuador), EAFIT Medellín (Colombia), King Mongkut's University of