Housing by the Poor: Progressive and Spatial Concepts Behind this
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Viviendas marginales, asentamientos ilegales, autoconstrucción, ciudad marginada, Bogotá (Colombia)Abstract
The author explains how in a city such as Bogota the economic system leaves a sizeable sector of the city
population out of all consideration including doors. The poor as a whole thus have to fend for themselves when
it comes to putting a roof over their heads out in the shanty towns that ring the city where they slowly put
together by themselves a homestead, brick by brick on a pittance. Such shelters are marked by their flimsiness,
their total lack of any sort of infrastructures and a make up for ever on the mend. His paper synthesises and
makes some considerations upon the findings of the research project «The Specialty of the Outskirts, the Spatial
Nature of Spontaneous Housing by the Poor». The internal lay-out of such home-made building is studied
from the initial view point that such ground plans are the fruit of a sui generis culture born within this
context of home-made building of dreadful necessity, individual initiative and many traditions. Popular
culture has established organizing set-ups, building procedures and stages of development that not only are
easy to identify but as easy to repeat. The study aims to uncover the underpinning to such a culture by
typifying and explaining its elements.
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