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2014-03-24Keywords
CIUDAD ESPONTÁNEACIUDAD POPULAR
ASENTAMIENTOS INFORMALES
VIVIENDA POPULAR
VIVIENDA PROGRESIVA
SPONTANEOUS CITY
POPULAR CITY
INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS
BASIC HOUSING
PROGRESSIVE HOUSING
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Growing Cities from Houses: Spontaneous cities in Lima.Citation
Revista INVI v.25 n.70 Santiago dez. 2010DOI
10.4067/S0718-83582010000300003Additional Links
http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-83582010000300003&lng=pt&nrm=isohttp://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=25816626003
Abstract
In Lima, informal settlements emerge from the construction of straw houses in the desert under poverty and precarious conditions. However, after seven decades of existence, they have transformed into relatively integrated neighborhoods in the city, with considerable level of development. This article describes how an urban fabric emerges within inverted planning processes, from large to small scales, from the city to the house (urbanization-division-consruction), being this inversion the engine of its development. Straw houses, the only material that enables communities to settle in the territory, apart from offering shelter, have become a strategy for city making. Housing is either a workshop or a store, a contribution to the urban fabric; it also changes its functions according to the needs of dwellers; housing expands as the neighborhood densifies, transforming its typology (from house to group home) or nature (rural to urban) when the settlement changes from village to neighborhood. The house expands as the city grows; both elements transform each other, giving dynamism to urban fabric, as well as ability to evolve.Type
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Este texto se basa en la investigación "Vivienda como generadora de ciudad en Latinoamérica: asentamientos informales en Lima-Perú", llevada a cabo en el Departamento de Urbanismo y Ordenación de Territorio, de la ETS de Arquitectura, de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, con el apoyo del Plan Propio de Ayudas al Personal Investigador en Formación de la UPM, en colaboración con la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, en Lima.ISSN
0718-8358ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.4067/S0718-83582010000300003
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