Housing policy in Latin American cities : a new generation of strategies and approaches for 2016 UN-Habitat III / Peter M. Ward, Edith R. Jimenez Huerta and Mercedes Di Virgilio.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ward, Peter M., 1951- editor.

Jiménez Huerta, Edith, editor.

Di Virgilio, María Mercedes, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Housing policy--Latin America.

Housing policy.

Urban policy--Latin America.

Urban policy.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 344 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2015.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

After the 1960s, rapid urbanization in developing regions in Latin America, Africa, and Asia was marked by the expansion of low-income "irregular" settlements that developed informally and which, by the 2000s, often constitute between 20-60 percent of the built-up area of metropolitan areas and other large cities. Apart from the activities of the Latin American Housing Network (LAHN), there has been minimal attention directed at the earliest portion of settlements that formed some 25-40 years ago that now form a large part of the intermediate ring of the cities. Developed as a coordinated collaborative research project, the authors and contributors offer original perspectives on the policy challenges of densification and rehabilitation facing much of the low income housing of Latin American cities. Researchers and practitioners working on housing theory, housing policy, comparative spatial and sociological research, and urban development issues will find the book highly significant. Book jacket.

Contents:

List of Figures (starting p. viii)

List of Tables (starting p. xi)

Preface and Acknowledgments (starting p. xiii)

List of Abbreviations (starting p. xviii)

1. Latin America's "Innerburbs": Towards a New Generation of Housing Policies for Low-Income Consolidated Self-Help Settlements (starting p. 1) / Peter M. Ward

2. A Spectrum of Policies for Housing Rehab and Community Regeneration in the "Innerburbs" (starting p. 20) / Peter M. Ward

3. Opportunities and Challenges for Consolidated Informal Urbanization in the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara (starting p. 40) / Heriberto Cruz Solis

4. The Challenge for Housing Rehab in Mexico City and Monterrey (starting p. 65) / Peter M. Ward

5. The Challenges of Consolidation in Precarious Settlements of Caribbean Cities: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (starting p. 95) / Erika Denisse Grajeda

6. The Consolidation of the City and Low-Income settlements in Guatemala City (starting p. 113) / Bryan R. Roberts

7. New Approaches to Intervention in the Informally Settled Areas of Bogota (starting p. 136) / Angelica Camargo Sierra

8. Rehab, "Los Aires" and Densification of Consolidated Settlements in Lima, Peru (starting p. 160) / Martha Lazarte Salinas

9. Unique, or Just Different? Self-Help, Social Housing, and Rehab in Santiago, Chile (starting p. 192) / Francisco Sabatini

10. Residential Trajectories of the Older Irregular Settlements in the City of Montevideo (starting p. 214) / Maria Jose Doyenart

11. Transformations in the Originally Informal and Now Consolidated Urban Areas of Metropolitan Buenos Aires (starting p. 237) / Tomas Guevara

12. Rental Markets and Housing Policies in Consolidated Informal Settlements (starting p. 263) / Angelica Camargo Sierra

13. Urban Regeneration and Housing Rehabilitation in Latin America's Innerburbs (starting p. 286) / Mercedes Di Virgilio

Appendices to Chapter 2: Appendix Tables A1.1

A 1.4 (starting p. 303)

Appendices to Chapter 4: Appendix Table A2.1 (starting p. 321)

Bibliography (starting p. 324)

Author Biographies and Affiliations (starting p. 338)

Index (starting p. 341)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

ISBN:

9781315773001

1315773007

Publisher Number:

99983968134

40024257958

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.