‘Aqui Estamos Y No Nos Vamos’: Contested Ground, Sustainable Informal Settlement and Human Consequence in the Urban Landscape of South Los Angeles
Document Type
Book Section
Publication Date
2020
Publication Title
Informality through Sustainability
Publisher
Routledge, Taylor and Francis
Publisher Location
London
Edition
1
First page number:
225
Last page number:
236
Abstract
The theme of this text, Informality through Sustainability Urban Informality Now, welcomes an investigation into how everyday practices performed within the urban landscape can serve as critically determinant factors in the shaping of our contemporary understanding of a sustainable, informal, urban settlement. Urban Farm as a viable example of sustainable informal settlement(s), it is the author's contention that the farm's most significant contribution to the lexicon of urban design far transcends that context. While the terms urban and landscape offer well-understood and often dichotomous definitions, the combined phrase urban landscape is somewhat less distinctive. In 1986, the City of Los Angles took possession of the property from its owner, real estate developer Ralph Horowitz, by implementing eminent domain. The farmers also filed a lawsuit claiming that their constitutional and statutory rights to due process had been violated and that they were entitled to a prescriptive easement and, therefore, the right to continue to farm the land.
Keywords
Sustainable Urbanism, Informal Settlements
Disciplines
Urban, Community and Regional Planning | Urban Studies
Repository Citation
Ortega, D. H.
(2020).
‘Aqui Estamos Y No Nos Vamos’: Contested Ground, Sustainable Informal Settlement and Human Consequence in the Urban Landscape of South Los Angeles.
Informality through Sustainability
225-236.
London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis.