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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2019
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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.