Podcasts Culture Interstitial Improvised Cities by Helen Gyger

Improvised Cities by Helen Gyger

Published: April 7, 2020, 11 a.m.

b'Tracing the evolution of aided self-help housing in Peru over three decades beginning in the 1950s, Helen Gyger, a historian of the built environment, contemplates how this hands-on model for improving squatter settlements persisted under different political regimes, competing ideological agendas, and strained expert-resident relations.'