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Hardcover Improvised Cities: Architecture, Urbanization, and Innovation in Peru Book

ISBN: 0822945363

ISBN13: 9780822945369

Improvised Cities: Architecture, Urbanization, and Innovation in Peru

(Part of the Culture, Politics, and the Built Environment Series)

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...

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