Authors/oscar carracedo garcia villalba
Oscar Carracedo is an Architect, Urbanist, Educator and currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture of the National University of Singapore. He is the director of the Master of Arts in Urban Design Programme and director of the DRIA-Designing Resilience in Asia International Research Programme, where he develops his research on urban resilience (resilience by design/designing resilience), sustainability, informal urbanism and low-income housing policies, practices and processes, and integrated planning. His expertise also includes urban development and urban regeneration, with a special focus on developing countries.
Oscar is the author of numerous books and articles, and drawn on his research he has recently published ‘Ibid. In the same place’, about on-site resilient revitalisation strategies for low-income neighbourhoods, ‘Indushoods. From industries to Neighbourhoods’ a study on how to renew and reposition industrial areas, and ‘Naturban’ about the relationship and integration between urban and natural milieu in cities.