Loose Fit City

Maurice Mitchell, author of The Lemonade Stand and Learning from Delhi, practised in the slums of Ghana and Sudan, and as both architect and carpenter, upgraded the Victorian slums of south London. Since 2000, he has sought to unlock the huge physical and cultural reserve trapped within informal urban settlements in Kosovo, India, Sierra Leone and Nepal.Bo Tang, co-editor of Learning from Delhi and The Architecture of three Freetown Neighbourhoods, is a senior research fellow and lecturer in the Architecture of Rapid Change and Scarce Resources. Her research is focused on collaborative live projects and making as a catalyst for civic engagement and social change.

• AcknowledgementsList of Illustrations and Credits00 IntroductionPart One: Context01 The Idea of Loose Fit02 Dimension and Fit03 The Remoteness of Mass Production and PlanningPart Two: Practice04 Exploring Loose Fit Within the City: Survey and IntentArchitect as Detective and Storyteller05 Fabricating Within the City: Process and ProductArchitect as MakerPart Three: Timely City-Making06 Form, Familiarity, Fit, Urban Order and the Human Horizon07 Loose Fit CityGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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