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Housing and belonging in Latin America / edited by Christien Klaufus and Arij Ouweneel.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Latin America studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--Latin America.
- City planning.
- Housing--Latin America.
- Housing.
- Urban policy.
- Latin America.
- Urban policy--Latin America.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2015.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction: taking up residency : spatial reconfigurations and the struggle to belong in urban Latin America / Christien Klaufus
- The Latin American context
- The consolidation of the Latin American city and the changing bases for social order / Bryan R. Roberts
- Proximity, crime, politics and design : Medellin's popular neighbourhoods and the experience of belonging / Gerard Martin and Marijke Martin
- Family and belonging in consolidated settlements
- Debe Ser esfuerzo propio : aspirations and belongings of the young generation in the old barriadas of southern Lima, Peru / Michaela Hordijk
- Housing inheritance and succession among pioneer squatters and self builders : a Mexican case study / Erika Denisse Grajeda
- "Favela modelo" : a study on housing, belonging and civic engagement in a "pacified" favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil / Palloma Menezes
- Spaces of the urban middle class
- Housing policy in the city of Buenos Aires : some reflections on the programa federal / Fernando Ostuni and Jean-Louis Van Gelder
- The boom of high-rise apartment buildings in Buenos Aires : new spaces of residentiality or a motor of disintegration? / Jan Dohnke and Corinna Holzl
- Living with style in my casa geo : large-scale housing conjuntos in urban Mexico / Cristina Inclen-Valadez
- Architectural and spatial representations
- Illiterate modernists : tracking the dissemination of architectural knowledge in Brazilian favelas / Fernando Luiz Lara
- Towards belonging : design and dwelling practices in Santa Marta, Colombia / Peter Kellett
- (re)building the city of Medellin : beyond state rhetoric vs. personal experience
- a call for consolidated synergies / Jota (Jos) Samper and Tamera Marko
- Reflections
- Home and belonging : reflections from urban Mexico / Ann Varley
- One block at a time : performing the neighbourhood / Arij Ouweneel
- List of contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781782387404
- 1782387404
- OCLC:
- 896862076
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