Housing Policy in Latin American Cities: A New Generation of Strategies and Approaches for 2016 Un-Habitat III

by Mercedes Di Virgilio, Peter M. Ward, Edith J. Jimenez

After 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138776866
• ISBN13: 9781138776869
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"