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Extending Themselves : User Initiated Transformations of Government-built Housing in Developing Countries.
Many countries have large stocks of government-built housing which, for various reasons, are in poor physical conditions and/or do not conform to the expectations of occupants. The occupants of such housing frequently make unauthorised but quite considerable changes and extensions (transformations)...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Many countries have large stocks of government-built housing which, for various reasons, are in poor physical conditions and/or do not conform to the expectations of occupants. The occupants of such housing frequently make unauthorised but quite considerable changes and extensions (transformations) to their dwellings. This book examines user-initiated transformations to government-built housing in Bangladesh, Egypt, Ghana and Zimbabwe, surveyed in a research programme sponsored by the UK Department for International Development. The 1600 dwellings surveyed show how relatively low-income househ. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (368 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781846313097 1846313090 0853239134 9780853239130 1781386501 9781781386507 |