Informal urban design —Hesam Kamalipour seminar with InfUr-

This seminar took place on Thursday 25th July 2024 with Dr. Hesam Kamalipour.

Abstract: Forms of urban informality have become integral to how places are being made, unmade, and remade, particularly within the context of what is commonly referred to as the Global South. In this presentation, I discuss my research, which aims to explore the intersections of urban design, informal urbanism, public space, urban morphology, and comparative urbanism. I primarily focus on the challenge of understanding the dynamics of informal urbanism in relation to urban design and the ways in which different forms of informality work in a global context.

Hesam Kamalipour is the Co-Founding Director of the Public Space Observatory Research Centre at Cardiff University and the lead co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Research Methods.