Improvised Cities - Architecture, Urbanization, and Innovation in Peru (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Pittsburgh Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Culture Politics & the Built Environment
Release date:	April 2019
Authors:	Helen Gyger
Dimensions:	189 x 262 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	432
ISBN-13:	978-0-8229-4536-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Residential buildings, domestic buildings > Houses, apartments, flats, etc Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Landscape art & architecture > City & town planning - architectural aspects Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Homelessness Books > History > American history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8229-4536-3
Barcode:	9780822945369

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