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Improvised Cities : Architecture, Urbanization, and Innovation in Peru /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gyger, Helen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Colección:Culture, politics, and the built environment.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The challenge of the affordable house, 1954-1958
  • The barriada under the microscope, 1955-1957
  • A profession in development, 1957-1960
  • Mediating informality, 1961-1963
  • World investments, productive homes, 1961-1967
  • Building a better barriada, 1968-1975
  • Revolutions in self-help, 1968-1980
  • Other paths, 1980-1986.