Improvised Cities: Architecture, Urbanization & Innovation in Peru - Couverture rigide

Gyger, Helen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0822945363 ISBN 13 : 9780822945369

Editeur : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822945363
• ISBN 13: 9780822945369
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 456
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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