Improvised Cities - Architecture, Urbanization, and Innovation in Peru

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 postwar period saw a number of trial projects in aided self-help housing throughout the developing world, Peru was the site of significant experiments in this field and pioneering in its efforts to enact a large-scale policy of land tenure regularization.

About the author

Helen Gyger has a master's in liberal studies from the New School for Social Research, New York, and a PhD in the history and theory of architecture from Columbia University. She is the coeditor of Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories.

Summary

The History of Aided Self-Help Housing in Peru

Product details

• Authors: Helen Gyger
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780822945369
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-4536-9
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 189 mm x 259 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 1319 g
• Series: Culture Politics & the Built E; Culture Politics & the Built E; Culture Politics & the Built Environment
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture