Urban residence : housing and social transformations in globalizing Ecuador / Christien Klaufus ; translated by Lee Mitzman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klaufus, Christien.

Contributor:

Mitzman, Lee K.

Series:

Latin America studies ; 100.

Latin America studies

Standardized Title:

Steden en de bouwers. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

City planning--Ecuador--Citizen participation.

City planning.

Dwellings--Ecuador--Design and construction--Citizen participation.

Dwellings.

Housing development--Ecuador--Citizen participation.

Housing development.

Urban anthropology--Ecuador.

Urban anthropology.

Political participation.

Ecuador.

Physical Description:

xvi, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.

Summary:

A scholar of architecture and cultural anthropology, Klaufus (Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation--CEDLA, Amsterdam) examines intermediate-sized cities in the Andes region, and how different groups of urbanites occupy urban space, both the city envisaged by architects and planners, and the everyday city of residents and users. She sees the city as a tangled and layered social space that is depicted and used in different ways by different social groups. The study began as her 2006 doctoral dissertation in anthropology at Utrecht University, published as Steden en de bouwers, and is translated from the Dutch by Le Mitzman. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Intermediate Andean cities

Neighborhood dialectics

Habits in house building

Fashionable homes

Transformations in Cuencan architecture

Riobamba, disordered city

The ordinary city.

Notes:

Translated from the German.

Author's thesis (doctoral--Utrecht University, 2006) originally published under the title: De steden en de bouwers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780857453716

0857453718

9780857453723

0857453726

OCLC:

756045438