Improvised Cities : Architecture, Urbanization, and Innovation in Peru Hardback
by Helen Gyger
Part of the Culture Politics & the Built Environment series
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:432 pages
- Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
- Publication Date:02/04/2019
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- ISBN:9780822945369
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:432 pages
- Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
- Publication Date:02/04/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780822945369