Overview

The following 3 galleries represent Mona Serageldin’s analog 35mm slide collection on informal settlements, as arranged in slide case M07: “Informal Housing.“

This selection of photographs includes housing diagrams, statistical maps, and images of residential structures and urban life, demonstrating the rich variety of housing throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Jamaica, and many other regions.

Galleries 1 and 2 represent a topical selection of photographs curated from urban development research trips throughout the mid-1980s, and document informal housing typologies over time and across geographic regions.

Gallery 3 documents informal housing and urban upgrading projects in Jamaica from 1982.

Galleries

MSDA Galleries M03, 1-4

MSDA Galleries M11, 1-3

GALLERY M07-1: Informal Housing, Part 1 (1984-1988)

58 images

Serageldin’s curated selection of images and graphics on informal housing and settlements, gathered between 1984-1988 and covering Egypt, France, and Morocco.

Egypt: These images were selected to accompany a presentation at an Aga Khan Award for Architecture seminar in Malaysia. They show housing exteriors and streetscapes.

France: These photographs, attributed to Samir Abdulac, show apartment buildings in Paris, along with a black and white image of previous informal housing. The building of the Paris périphérique, or ring road, in the 1970s displaced inhabitants of informal settlements on the land.

Morocco: These slides cover Casablanca, Rabat, and Fes, showing neighborhood overviews and housing interiors and exteriors. Graphics from this section include housing layouts and urban development maps.

Gallery M07-1. MSDA: Mona Serageldin Digital Archive. Institute for International Urban Development. I2UD Digital Library. Digitized August 2021.

GALLERY M07-2: Informal Housing, Part 2 (1988)

96 images

Serageldin’s curated selection of images and graphics on informal housing and settlements, gathered between 1984-1988 and covering the Middle East, North Africa, West Africa, and South and Southeast Asia. These digitized film slides show informal housing interiors and exteriors, streetscapes, and aerial views, as well as graphics on urbanization and housing layouts.

Cities and countries covered include: Dakar, Senegal; Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan; the Kampung Improvement Programme in Jakarta and Surabaya, Indonesia; Yemen; Oman and Saudi Arabia; Tunis, Tunisia and Algiers, Algeria; Amman, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq; and Egypt.

Gallery M07-2. MSDA: Mona Serageldin Digital Archive. Institute for International Urban Development. I2UD Digital Library. Digitized August 2021.

GALLERY M07-3: Jamaica (1982)

235 images

Digitized film slides of informal housing and upgrading projects in Jamaica from Mona Serageldin’s trip there in October 1982. Areas covered include the neighborhoods of Port Royal, Standpipe Lane, Cassava Piece, and Nannyville, all in or near Kingston. A section of images shows the core housing structures related to the site and services initiative funded by the World Bank from 1974-1984. See more under the World Bank audit report. Individual images show housing details and overviews, infrastructure, people, foliage and views of landscapes, streetscapes, and construction.

Gallery M07-3. MSDA: Mona Serageldin Digital Archive. Institute for International Urban Development. I2UD Digital Library. Digitized August 2021.

MSDA Galleries M03, 1-4

MSDA Galleries M11, 1-3