Criterios de orden de la ciudad informal: la morfologia de asentamiento informal de Busan, Corea del Sur

Abstract

The growth of informal settlements is a global phenomenon in cities with a population explosion. In the case of Busan, the second city of South Korea, there was rapid population growths on three occasions: colonization, war and industrialization. The urban area expanded, without time to plan, absorbing the geographical borders like the mountains and the rivers, where they appear informal settlements that are denominated “moon town” in Korea. Although these dwellings started as a shanty town many of them urbanized in their own way over the course of the decades. Thus, there must be their own logic or code that shared by the inhabitants. The study focuses on the physical elements that condition its growth and transformation. Once its morphology is understood, the difference between the formal and the informal would be only in the easiness of perceiving its order.