Peter Ward - Rehabilitation & Densification in Consolidated Informal Settlements

In this lecture Peter Ward from The University of Texas at Austin presents data drawn from a nine-country/eleven city collaborative study that examines self-built housing in old established low-income neighborhoods formed 25-40 years ago. The location of many of these consolidated settlements makes them increasingly desirable locations and a likely target for back-to-the-city densification and urban regeneration governmental policies. This threatens to generate pressures for displacement and to enhance gentrification. The challenge will be to ensure mixed-use and mixed income residential development associated with densification, infilling and urban and housing rehabilitation.

Latin American Housing Network (LAHN) webpage

Publications from the LAHN in Habitat International; the Annals of the Association of American Geographers; Latin American Research Review, and other journals.

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

Articles in the seven volume International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, 2012 Of related interest to this lecture see especially articles by Peter Ward [housing policies and "innerburbs"];
and by Alan Gilbert [on renting policies]

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