Virginia Tech
A comparison of self-help lower-income housing in community-based and individualistic settlements in urban Mexico
Abstract
dc:description.abstractThis study compares housing in two lower-income self help settlement types -- community-based and individualistic -- in two contemporary Mexican urban settings: Mexico City and Tlalnepantla. The research investigates differences in housing design preferences of occupant-builders, reflections of these preferences in built environments, and resulting housing consolidation levels. Of seven elicited housing design preferences investigated, only one suggests statistically significant differences between settlement types in both cities. Community- based settlement respondents tend to prefer an ideology for minimal and equal housing for alIi while individualistic settlement respondents, in contrast, focus on individuals' economic problems in securing private housing. Analyses of the two built environment types show design preference differences reflected in built housing.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph. D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- doctoral
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Environmental Design and Planning
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Environmental Design and Planning
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Virginia Tech
- Year dc:date.issued
- 1992
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Burnham, Richard A.
- Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
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- Knox, Paul L.
- Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
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- Edwards, Patricia K.
- Rodriguez-Camilloni, Humberto L.
- Scarpaci, Joseph L. Jr.
- Belsky, Eric
Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- In Copyright
- Licence dc:rights.uri
- Language dc:language.iso
- en
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Dc Identifier Other
- etd-08032007-102236
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/39019