The fifth issue of SLUM Lab is dedicated to research, mapping, infrastructural analysis, participatory planning, stakeholder outreach, and integrated design of youth facilities in a dense, low-income edge city east of Amman, Jordan. Produced as a free newspaper to coincide with and document the Spring 2010 Columbia University GSAPP design studio that took place in Amman and Rusaifah in collaboration with Columbia University’s Middle East Research Center and the Amman Institute for Urban Development, the publication includes contributions from Lucas Oesch and Sandra Hiari, as well as a selection of student work.

SLUM Lab 5: Amman Rusaifah

Publications

The fourth issue of SLUM Lab explores the creation of bridges, connectors, and overlaps as opportunities for a new generative architecture, which focuses on catalytic site interventions that unify the fragmented urban fabric of developing world megacities. Produced as a free newspaper to coincide with and document the Spring 2010 Columbia University GSAPP design studio that took place in São Paulo, Brazil, the publication includes contributions from Andreas Rudolph, Ligia Nobre, Kazuo Nakano, Pedro Rivera, Denise Hoffman-Brandt, Eric Rothstein, Marcos Rosa, Maria Paola Sutto, Jorge Mario Jáuregui, and Teddy Cruz, as well as a selection of student work.

SLUM Lab 4: São Paulo Architecture Experiment

The third issue of SLUM Lab focuses on human and capital flows between the Netherlands and Morocco to explore how urban ‘islands’ or ghettos can be conceived as laboratories of resource management and sustainable practices with the potential to reduce poverty and address marginalization through spatial tactics. Supported by Utrecht Manifest, and produced as part of the ‘Hoograven Invites You!’ project presented at the 3rd Biennal for Social Design in October 2009, the publication includes contributions from Pieter Hooimeijer, Henk Ovink, Wim Marseille, Simone Rots, Ghita Skalli, Henk Oosterling, Madelon Vriesendorp, and Bureau E.A.S.T., as well as students from Columbia University GSAPP and Utrecht University.

SLUM Lab 3: Hoograven

The sixth issue of SLUM Lab is the first to have a global scope, presenting an array of projects from around the world that reveal facets of the destructive capacity of contemporary city-making and ideas for alternative futures. Produced as a free newspaper bringing together studio material or directed projects from Columbia University GSAPP, the City College of New York’s landscape architecture program, and ETH Zürich, as well as invited essays, the publication was launched during New York’s Urban Design Week and includes contributions from Charlie Koolhaas, Michael Sorkin, SUPERFRONT, Lydia Kallipoliti, Michael Young, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Interboro Partners, and David Grahame Shane.

Release	September 2011
Editors	Alfredo Brillembourg, Hubert Klumpner, Denise Hoffman Brandt
Associate Editor	Julia Farr
Design	Paperwhite Studio
Production	Kjirsten Alexander, Marielly Casanova, Michael Contento, Allison Schwartz, Lindsey Sherman
Sponsors	Columbia University GSAPP, City College of New York
Pages	96

SLUM Lab 6: Last Round Ecology