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List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Introduction: Taking up Residency: Spatial Reconfigurations and the Struggle to Belong in Urban Latin America
Christien Klaufus
PART I: THE LATIN AMERICAN CONTEXT
Chapter 1. The Consolidation of the Latin American City and the Changing Bases for Social Order
Bryan R. Roberts
Chapter 2. Proximity, Crime, Politics and Design: Medellín’s Popular Neighbourhoods and the Experience of Belonging
Gerard Martin and Marijke Martin
PART II: FAMILY AND BELONGING IN CONSOLIDATED SETTELEMENTS
Chapter 3. Debe Ser Esfuerzo Propio: Aspirations and Belongings of the Young Generation in the Old Barriadas of Southern Lima, Peru
Michaela Hordijk
Chapter 4. Housing Inheritance and Succession among Pioneer Squatters and Self Builders: A Mexican Case Study
Erika Denisse Grajeda
Chapter 5. ‘Favela Modelo’: A Study on Housing, Belonging and Civic Engagement in a ‘Pacified’ Favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Palloma Menezes
PART III: SPACES OF THE URBAN MIDDLE CLASS
Chapter 6. Housing Policy in the City of Buenos Aires: Some Reflections on the Programa Federal
Fernando Ostuni and Jean-Louis Van Gelder
Chapter 7. The Boom of High-Rise Apartment Buildings in Buenos Aires: New Spaces of Residentiality or a Motor of Disintegration?
Jan Dohnke and Corinna Hölzl
Chapter 8. Living With Style in My Casa GEO: Large-scale Housing Conjuntos in Urban Mexico
Cristina Inclán-Valadez
PART IV: ARCHITECTURAL AND SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS
Chapter 9. Illiterate Modernists: Tracking the Dissemination of Architectural Knowledge in Brazilian Favelas
Fernando Luiz Lara
Chapter 10. Towards Belonging: Design and Dwelling Practices in Santa Marta, Colombia
Peter Kellett
Chapter 11. (Re)Building the City of Medellín: Beyond State Rhetoric vs. Personal Experience — A Call for Consolidated Synergies
Jota (José) Samper and Tamera Marko
PART V: REFLECTIONS
Chapter 12. Home and Belonging: Reflections From Urban Mexico
Ann Varley
Chapter 13. One Block at a Time: Performing the Neighbourhood
Arij Ouweneel
List of Contributors
Index
Housing and Belonging in Latin America
Edited by Christien Klaufus and Arij Ouweneel
344 pages, 48 illus., 7 tables, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-740-4 Hb Published (May 2015)
eISBN 978-1-78238-741-1 eBook