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Invisible Houses

Gonzalo Lizarralde
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Freedom Park
Good Life
Housing Pyramid
Humanitarian Aid
Income Generation Activities
Informal Construction
Informal Construction Sector
Informal Dwellers
Informal Entrepreneurs
Informal Productive Units
Informal Sector Enterprises
informal settlements
International NGO
invisble houses
Low Cost Housing
Low Cost Housing Projects
low-cost sustainable housing
planet of slums
post disaster reconstruction
Post-occupancy Phase
Public Infrastructure
Quantitative Housing Deficits
slum dwelling
sustainable housing
Tamil Nadu
Township Shacks
Urban Poor
Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415840828
  • Weight: 657g
  • Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Dec 2014
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Winner of the ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award!

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 – among others – the issues of planning, design, infrastructure and project management. It explains 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.
About Gonzalo Lizarralde
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.

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