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Gyger, Helen

 
9780822945369: Improvised Cities: Architecture, Urbanization, and Innovation in Peru (Culture Politics & the Built Environment)
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ISBN 10: 0822945363 ISBN 13: 9780822945369
Editorial: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019

Sinopsis

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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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.
 

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Editorial
University of Pittsburgh Press
Año de publicación
2019
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0822945363
ISBN 13 
9780822945369
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Número de páginas
438
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