Gyger, Helen, author.

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

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

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

Culture, politics, and the built environment

"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.

9780822945369 (hardcover)
0822945363 (hardcover)

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

Culture, politics, and the built environment.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 304426
Cote: BIB 250017
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