Improvised Cities: Architecture, Urbanization, and Innovation in Peru
(Part of the Culture, Politics, and the Built Environment Series)
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0822945363
ISBN13:9780822945369
Release Date:March 2019
Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
Length:456 Pages
Weight:2.90 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 7.1" x 10.1"
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