There's something that draws me to that kind of organic human architecture whether it's Kowloon, Brazil's favelas [2], Torre David in Venezuela [3] or Ponte Tower [4] in Johannesburg.
1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idoru
2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favela
3: http://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/feb/12/la-tor...
Villa is the equivalent of Favela. The villa 31 is the most prominent example in Argentina.
http://historyofourworld.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/lebbeus-wo...
http://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/
Very, very interesting work and commentary.
NOTE: there is actually a lot more content on that blog than the (bad) navigation suggests. If you look at the right-hand "monthly archives" column, it looks like there is only 12 monthly headings going back to Sept. 2011 - but if you manually plug in a URL like:
http://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2008/11/
... you can see there is a lot more content there...
http://cooper.edu/architecture/events/lebbeus-woods-celebrat...
http://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/the-design-game...
And if you have the money, New City is well worth the price.
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-City-Lebbeus-Woods/dp/06717681...
I got a used copy (softcover / not in super condition) for $70 several years ago and the price has only gone up. Astounded to see that pristine copies are now going for $800, with hardbacks north of $1,000.