Self-Help Housing: A Critique

by Ward, Peter M. (editor)

First Edition

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Book desription: London, England, U.K.: Mansell Publishing, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. This book is a critique of self-help house construction, the spontaneous settlements and illegal housing developments that emerged after World War II as a result of rapid urbanization throughout the Third World; it attempts to create a debate about the role of self-help in the past and in future urban planning in different social, economic, and cultural environments; the issues addressed in a series of essays are: does self-help housing depress still further the low income levels of the urban poor, or is it an effective bootstrap? what factors govern its success? what is its immediate and long-term potential? how and under what conditions can self-help policies be effective? (black cloth with bright red lettering; pictorial dust jacket with photo of housing in Ankara is slightly tanned along edges; otherwise a bright, clean, tight, unmarkd copy)

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