Dwelling Resources in South America,
Architectural Design 8, August 1963
Describing the problems that face South American countries in the field
of housing: problems made daily more acute by population increases and
movements causing an ‘urban explosion’ whose only precedent is that suffered by
Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century.
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Village artisan’s self – build house
Courtesy Patrick W Crooke
Urbanisation case history in Peru
Courtesy William Mangin
Government aided rural housing
Mass urban re-housing problems
Barriada integration and development
With acknowledgement to Margaret Grenfell
Minimal government-aided settlements
Evolution of a government housing agency
Aided housing in a new industrial city
Conclusions
Courtesies to Kitty Wilson Turner and Pat Crooke
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