Low income family housing within urban contexts

This thesis will be a study of those physical aspects of urban environments which have a bearing on the physical solution of housing for laboring classes in the U.S.A. and Latin America. An attempt will be made to define the nature and extent of the low income family housing problem according to varying physical stages of urbanization. Within a physical framework, adequate low income family housing types and placement will be proposed. PART ONE of this study approaches the problem analytically. The assumption is made that stages of urbanization differ in the U.S.A. and Latin America. An analysis of these assumptions will provide some conditioning aspects with which to face the housing problem. These stages are the contexts of the housing problem. PART TWO of this work establishes the hypothesis that the prototypes of the housing solution depend on the comparative stages of urbanization. A matrix model will be proposed for comparison and analysis of the recommended solution at a given point in time. The subject of the Part Three is the hypothesis that the location and density of the typical housing should be derived from the physical forces of the local context and its stage of urbanization. In reality, economic and social factors and their related political aspects are also important considerations, but this paper will concentrate on physical factors only. In Part Four Houston, ( the fifth largest American city ), and Antofagasta, ( the fifth largest Chilean city ), two cities which are similarly related to their respective nations, will be examined as two different physical contexts that condition their physical housing solutions. The thesis will be completed by a diagramatic presentation of prototype designs for Houston and Antofagasta that illustrate the text's principles.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Architecture

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Architecture

Grantor

Rice University

Year dc:date.issued

1971

Author dc:creator

• Aguilar N., Freddy Luis

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Kennon, Paul A., Jr.

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1911/89229

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.rice.edu:1911/89229