Faiza Moatasim
Biographic Data
| ID | 6008913 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Faiza Moatasim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Faiza |
| FAMILY NAME | Moatasim |
| SIGNATURE | MOATASIM F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5829-9736 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Direct Action at Home: Performative Spaces of Tenant Resistance in Los Angeles
Given the rising number of evictions in the United States, self‐organised and housing‐insecure tenants actively fight back against their harassment and displacement. Because of the high rate of informal evictions, housing struggles between tenants and landlords are not only fought in courts; they often take place at the homes that they themselves and their landlords occupy. How do precariously housed tenants resist their displacement, and turn do…
Walls and openings: The politics of containment of informal communities in Islamabad
In many large cities today, spaces of extreme wealth and poverty often exist in proximity. City officials, private developers and wealthy residents often ‘correct’ this cheek-by-jowl situation of proximate yet drastically unequal communities by building physical walls and fences between them. What is the interface between spaces inside and outside the walls built around low-income communities in elite neighbourhoods? How do people living inside t…
Safe storage and parking lots: Anti-homeless laws and homeless service spaces in Los Angeles
A new architecture that provides essential services (like property storage and vehicle parking) to unhoused people now exists in cities like Los Angeles, where thousands of people live on streets and sidewalks. This paper shows how homeless storage spaces are historically linked to mandatory “homeless sweeps” and laws that restrict the amount of personal property an unhoused person can legally keep. Similarly, the paper highlights how officially …
Informality Materialised: Long‐term Temporariness as a Mode of Informal Urbanism
This paper establishes an important link between the architectural strategies and long‐term sustenance of “ordinary” informal spaces in the planned modernist city of Islamabad. By focusing on the modalities of street hawking in Islamabad, this paper demonstrates that the architecture of ordinary informality follows an aesthetic and materiality of temporariness, and invokes design criteria based on the rituals of daily assembly and disassembly, an…
Entitled urbanism: Elite informality and the reimagining of a planned modern city
This article traces a history of an elite yet informal neighbourhood of Bani Gala in the planned modern city of Islamabad in Pakistan. By focusing on the role of elite homebuilders in the informal development of Bani Gala, this study expands on recent scholarship on urban informality that recognises the participation of the urban elite in informal spatial practices, traditionally associated with the urban poor. This article highlights the content…
Entitled urbanism: Elite informality and the reimagining of a planned modern city
This article traces a history of an elite yet informal neighbourhood of Bani Gala in the planned modern city of Islamabad in Pakistan. By focusing on the role of elite homebuilders in the informal development of Bani Gala, this study expands on recent scholarship on urban informality that recognises the participation of the urban elite in informal spatial practices, traditionally associated with the urban poor. This article highlights the content…
Informality Materialised: Long‐term Temporariness as a Mode of Informal Urbanism
This paper establishes an important link between the architectural strategies and long‐term sustenance of “ordinary” informal spaces in the planned modernist city of Islamabad. By focusing on the modalities of street hawking in Islamabad, this paper demonstrates that the architecture of ordinary informality follows an aesthetic and materiality of temporariness, and invokes design criteria based on the rituals of daily assembly and disassembly, an…
Direct Action at Home: Performative Spaces of Tenant Resistance in Los Angeles
Given the rising number of evictions in the United States, self‐organised and housing‐insecure tenants actively fight back against their harassment and displacement. Because of the high rate of informal evictions, housing struggles between tenants and landlords are not only fought in courts; they often take place at the homes that they themselves and their landlords occupy. How do precariously housed tenants resist their displacement, and turn do…
Walls and openings: The politics of containment of informal communities in Islamabad
In many large cities today, spaces of extreme wealth and poverty often exist in proximity. City officials, private developers and wealthy residents often ‘correct’ this cheek-by-jowl situation of proximate yet drastically unequal communities by building physical walls and fences between them. What is the interface between spaces inside and outside the walls built around low-income communities in elite neighbourhoods? How do people living inside t…
Safe storage and parking lots: Anti-homeless laws and homeless service spaces in Los Angeles
A new architecture that provides essential services (like property storage and vehicle parking) to unhoused people now exists in cities like Los Angeles, where thousands of people live on streets and sidewalks. This paper shows how homeless storage spaces are historically linked to mandatory “homeless sweeps” and laws that restrict the amount of personal property an unhoused person can legally keep. Similarly, the paper highlights how officially …
Informality Materialised: Long‐term Temporariness as a Mode of Informal Urbanism
This paper establishes an important link between the architectural strategies and long‐term sustenance of “ordinary” informal spaces in the planned modernist city of Islamabad. By focusing on the modalities of street hawking in Islamabad, this paper demonstrates that the architecture of ordinary informality follows an aesthetic and materiality of temporariness, and invokes design criteria based on the rituals of daily assembly and disassembly, an…
Entitled urbanism: Elite informality and the reimagining of a planned modern city
This article traces a history of an elite yet informal neighbourhood of Bani Gala in the planned modern city of Islamabad in Pakistan. By focusing on the role of elite homebuilders in the informal development of Bani Gala, this study expands on recent scholarship on urban informality that recognises the participation of the urban elite in informal spatial practices, traditionally associated with the urban poor. This article highlights the content…
Safe storage and parking lots: Anti-homeless laws and homeless service spaces in Los Angeles
A new architecture that provides essential services (like property storage and vehicle parking) to unhoused people now exists in cities like Los Angeles, where thousands of people live on streets and sidewalks. This paper shows how homeless storage spaces are historically linked to mandatory “homeless sweeps” and laws that restrict the amount of personal property an unhoused person can legally keep. Similarly, the paper highlights how officially …
Direct Action at Home: Performative Spaces of Tenant Resistance in Los Angeles
Given the rising number of evictions in the United States, self‐organised and housing‐insecure tenants actively fight back against their harassment and displacement. Because of the high rate of informal evictions, housing struggles between tenants and landlords are not only fought in courts; they often take place at the homes that they themselves and their landlords occupy. How do precariously housed tenants resist their displacement, and turn do…
Walls and openings: The politics of containment of informal communities in Islamabad
In many large cities today, spaces of extreme wealth and poverty often exist in proximity. City officials, private developers and wealthy residents often ‘correct’ this cheek-by-jowl situation of proximate yet drastically unequal communities by building physical walls and fences between them. What is the interface between spaces inside and outside the walls built around low-income communities in elite neighbourhoods? How do people living inside t…
Urban Planning and Governance (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Architecture (3 works) · Architecture (3 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (3 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (3 works)