27/06/2014

Mendoza analyses socio-spatial patterns in urban planning at a conference in Milan

Dr Carmen Mendoza, Co-Director of the Master's Degree in Cooperation and lecturer in the field of urban planning at ESARQ-UIC, gave a speech entitled ?Socio-spatial Patterns: The Backbone of Informal Settlement Regeneration? at the international conference ?Cities to be Tamed??, which took place between 15 and 17 November at the Politecnico di Milano, in Milan.

The design of the informal city in comparison to the formal design of the city, stereotypes and sustainable realities, and the power of planning before land is taken over through planning are the three themes around which the content of the conference is based.

In her speech, Dr Mendoza analysed the socio-spatial patterns which become the "backbone” of the regeneration of informal urban settlements.