Improvised Cities - Helen

Beginning 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.