Improvised Cities: Architecture, Urbanization, and Innovation in Peru

by Helen Gyger

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"