Las barriadas de Lima como estímulo a la reflexión urbana sobre la vivienda. Revisitando a Turner y de Soto

Las barriadas de Lima como estímulo a la reflexión urbana sobre la vivienda. Revisitando a Turner y de Soto

Fernandez Maldonado, A.M.

Architecture and The Built Environment

Urbanism

2015-05-01

The barriadas of Lima have been the most thoroughly studied urban and social process in the field of housing and social sciences in Peru. The processes observed in them served as inspiration for two enthusiastic and influential proposals in the field of housing and urban economics, elaborated and advocated by John F.C. Turner and Hernando de Soto, respectively. After nearly sixty years since the peripheral barriadas became massive urban development processes in Lima, it is a good occasion to ask: How valid are the assumptions of Turner and Soto in the same areas that inspired these ideas? To answer this question, this paper presents, reviews and discusses the origins, circumstances and studies on these two perspectives, collected from the local and international urban debate. The conclusion is that the assumptions of Turner have been partially met, even if his recommendations were weakly and irregularly implemented by the different governments. On the other hand, the assumptions of De Soto, implemented by the same De Soto through COFOPRI, have had little success despite their long-standing political support.

self-help housing
property titles
barriadas of Lima

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Revista de Estudios sobre Vivienda (WASI), 2 (3), 2015

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