03788cam a2200421 i 4500 pucpr 20220809171700.0 140717s2015 nyua b 000 0 eng 2014017179 9780415840835 (paperback) 041584083X 9780415840828 (hardback) 9781315749600 (ebook) pucpr eng pucpr pucpr rda CARIBET NA7477 L59 2015 728/.1091724 23 Lizarralde, Gonzalo, 1974- The invisible houses : rethinking and designing low-cost housing in developing countries. / Gonzalo Lizarralde. txt 1st edition New York : Routledge , 2015 xviii, 232 p. ill.; 25 cm. book rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediaded n rdacarrier volume nc Include index Include Bibliography Learning From the Poor: Most of What Architects, Urban Specialists, Policy Makers and Design Professionals Need to Know About Housing Can Be Learned from the Informal Sector -- Invisible Millions: The Multiple (and Contradictory) Faces of Poverty and Informality -- Invisible Markets: On Why to Buy a $60,000 House in a Slum, and Other Distortions in Housing Markets -- Invisible Land: About Houses Built on Distant, Wasted and Fragmented Land -- Invisible Informal Processes: About the Way Land is Occupied and Houses are Produced, Purchased, Installed and Enlarged -- Invisible Infrastructure: Housing is Not Actually About Delivering Houses, But About Developing Infrastructure, Collective Services and Economic Activities. But, Where? -- Visibly Vulnerable, Invisibly Resilient: On Why Disasters Are Not Strictly "Natural" and Reconstruction Projects Sometimes Represent a Different Type of Disaster -- Invisible Freedoms: On an Ethical Position Towards Housing in Developing Countries -- Invisible Power: On Who Does What, When and How—a New Framework for Understanding Low-Cost Housing in Developing Countries -- Rethinking and Designing Low-Cost Housing in Developing Countries: It is Not About Simplifying the Problem, but Rather Committing to Collective Sustained Effort and Embracing Complexity -- There is an increased interest among architects, urban specialists and design professionals to contribute to solve 'the housing problem' in developing countries. The Invisible Houses takes us on a journey through the slums and informal settlements of South Africa, India, Colombia, Honduras, El Salvador, Cuba, Haiti and many other countries of the global south, revealing the challenges of, and opportunities for, improving the fate of millions of poor families. Stressing the limitations of current approaches to housing development, Gonzalo Lizarralde examines the short, mid, and long term consequences of housing intervention. The book covers the issues of planning, design, infrastructure and project management, explaining the different variables that need to be addressed and the causes of common failures and mistakes, while outlining successful strategies based on embracing a sustained engagement with the complexity of processes that are generally invisible. Sustainable architecture Developing countries. Low-income housing Developing countries. Architects and community Developing countries. Urbanization Developing countries. ARCHITECTURE / Sustainability & Green Design. bisacsh ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Residential. bisacsh ARCHITECTURE / Professional Practice. bisacsh lcc 6 1st edition NA7477 General L59 2015 260353 260353 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2017-05-18 Amazon 52.45 0 General NA7477 L59 2015 91000000053157 2017-06-27 00:00:00 1 62.45 2017-05-18 6