Abstract
There are two major problems facing Latin American governments in terms of housing todays the growth of the deficit of dwelling units on one hand, and the qualitative aspects of the habitat and the environment accompanying the deficit on the other. While the overall population of a country such as Colombia grows at a rate of J.2 percent per year, the housing deficit may very well be close to be rising at a 10 percent in the same time period. It is quite well known a fact that both the deficit and the deteriorating conditions of some parts of the urban environment fall upon the poorest sectors of the population, actually representing the majority of such countries,who by and large are left out of most of the decisions made at governmental levels. The main purpose of this thesis is to study the social and economic conditions of these people migrating into the urban eentres, their values, their needs and priorities, to analyse how the institutions look at those people's problems and what they do about them, and to finally arrive at some recommendations.
Committee Chair
John P. R. Falconer
Committee Members
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Degree
Master of Architecture (MArch)
Author's Department
Graduate School of Architecture
Document Type
Restricted Thesis
Date of Award
8-1-1971
Language
English (en)
Recommended Citation
Brando Pradilla, Juan Antonio, "Urban housing and the marginal in Latin America" (1971). Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design Theses & Dissertations. 54.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/samfox_arch_etds/54
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