Inclus dans:

• Fonds: Fonds Minimum Cost Housing Group , 1947, 1970-2012
•    Série(s): Housing Research Projects, 1970-2011
•      Projet: Study of human settlements, 1985-1993

Personnes et institutions:

• McGill University. Minimum Cost Housing Group (archive creator)
• Witold Rybczynski (creator)
• Vikram Bhatt (creator)

Titre:

Study of human settlements

Date:

1985-1993

Niveau de description archivistique:
Project

Collation:

• approx. 2880 slides
  0.34 l.m. of textual records
  5 photographs
  2 books
  2 sketchbooks
  2 models

Présentation du contenu:
This project series documents Minimum Cost Housing Group's human settlement study in developping countries, mainly in India and in China, in the 1970s and 1980s. The project led to three publications series "How the Other Half Builds" (Volume 1: Space, Volume 2: Plots and Volume 3: The Self-Selection Process). A series of audio-visual training packages entitled "Human Settlements Training Packages" was also produced in relation with this study. They produced a total of six series comprised of slides and audio cassettes that provide new ideas for planning low-income housing and low-cost technologies. The production of these training packages is based on years of field work in China and in India, and research in collobaration with the Vastu-Shilpa Foundation in Ahmedabad, India.
The material in this project series was produced between 1985 and 1993. The files contain a large collection of slides of the training packages, guides for the slide show presentations, and various textual records related to the production of the training packages. The project series also comprises correspondence with the Vastu-Shilpa Foundation and sketchbooks with study drawings of housing mainly in India, possibly by Vikram Bhatt. The file also includes textual records related to the production of the publications series "How the Other Half Builds", as well as dummies for the publications and the final version of the books.

Numéro de référence:

AP149.S1.1986.PR01

Mode de classement:
Materiel in this project series was kept in its original order during processing.

Notes de l’archiviste:

• The audio-cassettes part of the Human Settlement Training Packages were also part of the 2016 addition to the Minimum Cost Housing Group, but will be processed at a later date.

Localisation:

Île de Montréal Québec Canada

Langue et écriture des documents:

• English

Sources complémentaires:

• Also contains material related to the Aranya Township's study project. Other material related to this project are catalogued under AP149.S1.1984.PR01.

Contient:

• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.001, Proposal for the Human Settlement Training project in India, 1985
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.002, Visual material for lecture related to the How the Other Half Builds Publication, ca. 1986
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.003, Reports for the Human Settlement Training project in India, 1985-1993
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.004, Final reports on the Human Settlement Training project in India, ca. 1991-1993
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.005, Funding of the Human Settlement Training project in India, 1988-1991
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.006, Collaboration for the Human Settlement Training project in India, 1988-1989
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.007, Collaboration for the Human Settlement Training project in India, 1987-1990
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.008, Financial statements for the Human Settlement Training project in India, 1987-1993
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.009, Field trips for the Human Settlement Training project in India, 1988
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.010, Production of the Human Settlement Training Packages, 1989-1991
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.011, Human Settlement Training Package presentation in India, 1989-1991
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.012, Collaboration for the Human Settlement Training Packages, 1989-1992
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.013, Production of the Human Settlement Training Packages tools, ca. 1988
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.014, Funding of the Human Settlement Training project in India, 1986-1992
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.015, Publication "How the Other Half Builds" distribution, 1985-1987
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.016, Production of the publication "How the Other Half Builds", 1985-1987
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.017, Presentation texts for the Human settlements training packages, 1990s
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.018, Slides for the Human settlements training packages lectures, 1990s
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.019, Slides for the Human settlements training packages lectures, 1990s
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.020, Slides for the Human settlements training packages lectures, 1990s
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.021, Slides for the Human settlements training packages lectures, 1990s
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.022, Slides for the Human settlements training packages lectures, 1990s
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.023, Slides for the Human settlements training packages lectures, 1990s
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.024, Slides for the Human settlements training packages lectures, 1990s
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.025, Slides for the Human settlements training packages lectures, 1990s
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.026, How the Other Half Builds, volume 2: Plots / Publication about the human settlements development, 1986
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.027, Report of Richard Brook for housing project in Ahmedabad, India, 1988
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.028, Project proposal and bugets for the Human Settlements Training in India, 1985-1986
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.029, Production of the publication "How the Other Half Builds", 1986
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.030, Booklets for the Human Settlement Training Packages, ca. 1986
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.031, Production of the publication "How the Other Half Builds", 1984
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.032, Vikram Bhatt's sketchbooks of human settlements in India, ca. 1986
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.033, Photographs of Richard Brook taken during his field trip in India, ca. 1988
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.034, Study model for research on human settlement development, 1986
• AP149.S1.1986.PR01.035, Study model for research on human settlement development, 1986