Improvised Cities

Architecture, Urbanization, and Innovation in Peru
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8229-4536-9
Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 259 mm, Gewicht: 1319 g

Reihe: Culture Politics & 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gyger, Helen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Helen Gyger has a Master’s in Liberal Studies from the New School for Social Research, New York, and a PhD in the History and Theory of Architecture from Columbia University. She is the coeditor of Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories.