Improvised cities : architecture, urbanization & innovation in Peru /
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| Author / Creator: | Gyger, Helen, author. |
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| Imprint: | Pittsburg, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019] |
| Description: | xvii, 438 pages ; 27 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Culture, politics, and the built environment Culture, politics, and the built environment. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11858381 |
| 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.<br> <br> <br> <br> 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. <br> <br> |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 438 pages ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822945369 0822945363 |
