Improvised Cities by Helen Gyger - 9780822945369

University of Pittsburgh Press

Improvised CitiesArchitecture, Urbanization, and Innovation in Peru\nAuthor(s): Helen Gyger\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pittsburgh Press\nISBN-13: 9780822945369, 978-0822945369\nSynopsis\nBeginning 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 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 in improvised, unauthorized cities.\n\nGyger f.