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Book SynopsisAfter 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 constituted between 20-60 percent of the built-up area of metropolitan areas and other large cities. There has been a variety of research directed at the housing policies involved with these informal settlements, yet apart from the activities of 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.
This volume breaks new ground by opening up a new generation of housing policy in Latin America cities with broader application for other developing countries. Its editors bring unique perspectives: Peter Ward coordinates the LAHN, and Edith Jiménez and María Di Virgilio are founding members of the netw
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"The original research in this volume provides a landmark for anyone concerned with improving the lives of urban residents. Ward and his colleagues uniquely demonstrate the significant challenges facing cities while providing concrete solutions to meet the future needs of consolidated settlements."
— Maureen Donaghy, Rutgers University
"Since the 1960s and 1970s urban areas throughout Latin America have been shaped by informal settlements. Now fully serviced and consolidated, these apparently ordered low-income settlements have been largely off the radar of city and housing planners. In this path-breaking comparative study of ten cities, Ward, Jiménez, and de Virgilio and their colleagues of the LAHN make a highly significant contribution to reshaping housing policy in the region, and to ensuring that some 50% of the inhabitants of our large urban areas are now firmly back on the policy map."
— Peter Spink, Centro de Administração Pública e Governo - Fundação Getulio Vargas - São Paulo
"the book does a wonderful job in demonstrating the need for more innovative housing policies that take full advantage of Latin American cities’ hidden assets in order to tackle the persisting problems of lack of adequate housing for lower-income groups and dysfunctional, costly suburban growth. Hopefully, some of these ideas will find their place in the discussions that will take place in the upcoming 2016 UN-HABITAT III."
— Daniel de Mello Sanfelici, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Brazil
Table of Contents1. Latin America’s "Innerburbs": Towards a New Generation of Housing Policies for Low-Income Consolidated Self-help Settlements; Peter M. Ward. 2. A Spectrum of Policies for Housing Rehab and Community Regeneration in the "Innerburbs"; Peter M. Ward. 3. Opportunities and Challenges for Consolidated Informal Urbanization in the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara; Edith R. Jiménez Huerta and Heriberto Cruz Solís. 4. The Challenge for Housing Rehab in Mexico City and Monterrey; Peter M. Ward. 5. The Challenges of Consolidation in Precarious Settlements of Caribbean Cities: Santo Dominto, Dominican Republic; Erika Denisse Grajeda. 6. The Consolidation of the City and Low-income settlements in Guatemala City; Bryan Roberts. 7. New Approaches to Intervention in the Informally Settled Areas of Bogotá; Angélica Camargo Sierra. 8. Rehab, "Los Aires" and Densification of Consolidated Settlements in Lima, Peru; Danielle M. Rojas and Peter M. Ward, In collaboration with Olga Peek and Martha Lazarte Salinas. 9. Unique, or Just Different? Self-help, Social Housing and Rehab in Santiago, Chile; Peter M. Ward, In collaboration with Carolina Flores and Francisco Sabatini.10. Residential Trajectories of the Older Irregular Settlements in the City of Montevideo; Magdalena Marsiglia and María José Doyenart. 11. Transformations in the Originally Informal Consolidated Urban Areas of Metropolitan Buenos Aires; María Mercedes Di Virgilio, María Soledad Arqueros Mejica, and Tomás Guevara. 12. Rental Markets and Housing Policies in Consolidated Informal Settlements; Edith R. Jiménez Huerta and Angélica Camargo Sierra. 13. Urban Regeneration and Housing Rehabilitation in Latin America’s Innerburbs; Peter M. Ward, Edith R. Jiménez Huerta and María Mercedes Di Virgilio
