Print Email Facebook Twitter Looking for alternatives in the city of the slopes Title Looking for alternatives in the city of the slopes: Housing as a process to reduce socio-spatial segregation in Lima, Peru Author Muñoz Unceta, Pablo (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft European Master of Urbanism) Contributor Hausleitner, B. (mentor) Dabrowski, M.M. (graduation committee) Sabaté Bel, Joaquín (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme European Master in Urbanism (EMU) Project European Master in Urbanism (EMU) Date 2019-06-26 Abstract Like many other Latin American cities, Lima experienced explosive population growth during the last century. Its population went from 600 thousand people in 1940 to nearly 9.5 million people nowadays. Former agriculture fields between the coast and the beginning of the Andes mountains were quickly filled with urban developments. Neither the public sector nor the private housing market provided decent living conditions in the city for all these newcomers. 34% of the city’s land was developed informally (Municipality of Lima, 2013a) and 70% of the houses were to some degree self-built. The process of urban development and, specifically, the control of the space through land ownership, generated a segregated city. The urban poor usually accessed low-cost land or housing in areas exposed to high levels of risk, with accessibility problems or lack of basic infrastructure.The current process of urban development, along with a quantitative understanding of housing in policy, continues reproducing socio-spatial segregation today. Buying a plot to land traffickers on the steep slopes of the periphery is the primary way for the low-income population to access a place to live in the city.This graduation project has two main goals. On the one hand, it tries to understand the relations between housing, urban development and socio-spatial segregation in Lima. On the other, it explores the potential of housing (understood as a process) to develop alternative models of urban development and reduce socio-spatial segregation, in search of a more just city. Subject LimaUrban morphologySpatial JusticeSocio-spatial segregationHousing To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ac166564-2a6c-4003-b63f-f2a32ce9c0ff Coordinates -12.034715, -76.904641 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2019 Pablo Muñoz Unceta Files PDF EMU_PMU_4745604_Final_Report_1.pdf 43.1 MB PDF EMU_PMU_4745604_Reflection.pdf 53.82 KB PDF EMU_PMU_4745604_P5_Presentation.pdf 29.56 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:ac166564-2a6c-4003-b63f-f2a32ce9c0ff/datastream/OBJ2/view