Improvised cities : architecture, urbanization & innovation in Peru / Helen Gyger.

Main entry:

Gyger, Helen, author.

Title & Author:

Improvised cities : architecture, urbanization & innovation in Peru / Helen Gyger.

Publication:

Pittsburg, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019]

Description:

xvii, 438 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 27 cm

Series:

Culture, politics, and the built environment

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-424) and index.
The challenge of the affordable house, 1954-1958 -- The barriada under the microscope, 1955-1957 -- A profession in development, 1957-1960 -- Mediating informality, 1961-1963 -- World investments productive homes, 1961-1967 -- Building a better barriada, 1968-1975 -- Revolutions in self-help, 1968-1980 -- Other paths, 1980-1986.

Summary:

"Beginning in the 1950s, an explosion in rural-urban migration dramatically increased the population of cities throughout Peru, leading to an acute housing shortage and the proliferation of self-built shelters clustered in barriadas, or squatter settlements. Improvised Cities examines the history of aided self-help housing, or technical assistance to self-builders, which took on a variety of forms in Peru from 1954 to 1986. While the postwar period saw a number of trial projects in aided self-help housing throughout the developing world, Peru was the site of significant experiments in this field and pioneering in its efforts to enact a large-scale policy of land tenure regularization in improvised, unauthorized cities. Gyger focuses on three interrelated themes: the circumstances that made Peru a fertile site for innovation in low-cost housing under a succession of very different political regimes; the influences on, and movements within, architectural culture that prompted architects to consider self-help housing as an alternative mode of practice; and the context in which international development agencies came to embrace these projects as part of their larger goals during the Cold War and beyond." --From publisher's description.

ISBN:

9780822945369 (hardcover)
0822945363 (hardcover)

Subject:

Self-help housing Peru.
Squatter settlements Peru.
Autoconstruction Pérou.
Bidonvilles Pérou.
Self-help housing.
Squatter settlements.
Peru.

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Culture, politics, and the built environment.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304426
Call No.: BIB 250017
Status: Available

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