Gonzalo Lizarralde

The Invisible Houses

Rethinking and Designing Low-Cost Housing in Developing Countries

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Produktbeschreibung

Here Gonzalo Lizarralde examines the basic knowledge that architects, urban specialists and design professionals need to have before intervening in developing countries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9780415840828
• ISBN-10: 0415840821
• Artikelnr.: 41241649

Autorenporträt

Gonzalo Lizarralde is a professor at the School of Architecture, Université de Montréal. He has more than 15 years' experience in the field of housing and project management in developing countries. He has authored more than 50 articles on the subjects of housing, post-disaster reconstruction and project management. He is a founding member of i-Rec, an international network for improving post-disaster reconstruction.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Learning from the Poor 1.1. The housing story of the
Sanchez 1.2. Slums and informal settlements: part of the problem or part of
the solution? 1.3. The formal and informal sectors and other problems of
semantics 1.4. Why some ideas to solve the "housing problem" have failed
1.5. The need for new approaches 1.6. The "invisible houses" 1.7. A systems
approach to housing: Dealing with complexity 1.8. The problem of
information: Collecting information and using it in solutions that respond
to users' needs and expectations 1.9 The following chapters (introduction
to the book) 2. The Invisible Dwellers and the Invisible Builders 2.1.
Informal dwellers and informal workers: Criminals? Wrongdoers? Victims?
Heroes? 2.2 Definition and boundaries of the informal sector 2.3. A
categorization of slums and informal settlements (see here the CD ROM of
the WB) 2.4 Case Box: The slum of Aguablanca, Cali (Colombia) 2.5.Patterns
found in the informal sector and patterns (mistakes) found in the formal
sector 2.6.The difference between fake developers and informal builders
2.7.Case Box: Pre-fabricated "shacks" in Cape Town, South Africa 2.8.
Advantages and disadvantages of informal builders 3. The Invisible Market
3.1. Market distortions: residential market, land market, financial market:
3.2. The housing "gap": the pyramid of housing markets and the difficulty
of families to "climb" the housing ladder 3.3. Financial mechanisms:
mortgages, subsidies, loans, cash-for-work, micro-financing 3.4. Subsidized
housing: the main challenges 3.5 Case Box: A $30,000 unit in the favela
Santa Marta, Brazil 4. The Invisible Land 4.1. The value of land 4.2. Land
tenure (modes of tenure and effects on housing) 4.3. Housing typologies:
detached units, row housing, and mid-high buildings 4.4. Housing densities:
the dilemma between community participation and housing densities 4.5. Case
Box: Mfuleni Project, Cape Town, South Africa 4.6. Land and corruption 4.7.
Case Box: Land management after the South Asian Tsunami 4.8. Land and
vulnerabilities 4.9. Case Box: land issues and political games in Guatemala
5. The Invisible Process of Incremental Housing 5.1. Definition of
incremental housing 5.2. Process of incremental housing 5.3. Technologies
of incremental construction 5.4. Case Box: Previ, Lima, Peru 5.5. Unplanned
incremental construction 5.6. Case Box: Project in Choluteca, Honduras 5.7.
Planned incremental construction 5.8. Case Box: Project Juan Pablo II,
Colombia 6. The Invisible Infrastructure 6.1. Public services: water,
sewage, electricity, telephone, Internet 6.2. Collective services 6.3. Case
Box: Infrastructure challenges in Hanoi 6.4. Transportation 6.5. Case Box:
Infrastructure for slums in Bogota and Medellin, Colombia 7. Vulnerability,
Resilience, and Reconstruction 7.1. Definition of disasters 7.2. The
concept of resilience 7.3: The Cuban vulnerability reduction program 7.4.
Reconstruction 7.5. Case Box: Reconstruction project in Haiti 7.6.
Temporary housing 7.7. Case Box: Temporary housing project in Armenia,
Colombia, and Turkey 7.8. Relocation: challenges and secondary effects 7.9.
Case Box: relocation project in Tunisia 7.10. Truths and myths about
post-disaster reconstruction 8. Actors and Capabilities 8.1. Project
stakeholders 8.2. Temporary multi-organisation 8.3. Project governance:
formal and informal structuring, stakeholder management 8.4. Myths and
realities of community participation 8.5. Case Box: The Netreg project,
Cape Town, South Africa 8.6. Definition of capabilities 8.7. Levels of
freedom 8.8. The conditions for freedom 9. Strategies 9.1. Slum upgrading
9.2. Sites and services 9.3. Agency-driven construction 9.4. Cash approach
9.5. Owner-driven construction 9.6. Community-driven construction 9.7. Case
Box: Housing reconstruction project in Gujarat, India 9.8. Incremental
housing 9.9 Case Box: Habitec construction system in Thailand 9.10.
Cooperative housing 9.11. Housing delivery versus the capability approach
10. What Type of Sustainability? 10.1. Levels of responsibility,
objectives, and methods 10.2. Social responsibility 10.3. Economic
responsibility 10.4. Environmental responsibility 10.5. Sustainable
development as a strategy 10.6. Environmental certifications in developing
countries 11. Informal Typologies 11.1. Rural vernacular solutions 11.2.
Urban informal solutions 11.3. Shacks 11.4. Prefabricated one-storey units
11.5. Multi-storey multi-family buildings 11.6. Multi-family reused (and
historical) buildings 11.7. Mesones 12. Conclusion: Complexity 12.1. The
systems approach 12.2. Interventions based on capabilities 12.3.
Reinforcing the informal sector 12.4. Planning and design within complexity
12.5. The design challenge