"Sequencing infrastructure development in the ""barrios marginales"" of Quito, Ecuador: Policy findings of a hedonic price model"
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description: "Policy makers in less developed countries have responded to the chronic shortage of low income housing by buying land, providing infrastructure, and reselling the land. Recently, this ""sites and services"" approach has been criticized by scholars who assert that the provision of infrastructure raises land values beyond the reach of low-income residents. For land to remain affordable, these scholars suggest, infrastructure must be provided at the end of the development process, after homeowners have settled on the land. Such a policy has two harmful side effects. First, sequencing infrastructure at the end of the development process takes infrastructure planning out of the development process. Second, sequencing infrastructure at the end of the development process fails to address the major causes of urban diseases in developing countries: lack of water, lack of sanitary systems, lack of garbage disposal, and pollution caused from wood burning stoves."
abstract: "Policy makers in less developed countries have responded to the chronic shortage of low income housing by buying land, providing infrastructure, and reselling the land. Recently, this ""sites and services"" approach has been criticized by scholars who assert that the provision of infrastructure raises land values beyond the reach of low-income residents. For land to remain affordable, these scholars suggest, infrastructure must be provided at the end of the development process, after homeowners have settled on the land. Such a policy has two harmful side effects. First, sequencing infrastructure at the end of the development process takes infrastructure planning out of the development process. Second, sequencing infrastructure at the end of the development process fails to address the major causes of urban diseases in developing countries: lack of water, lack of sanitary systems, lack of garbage disposal, and pollution caused from wood burning stoves."
author: Simon, Alison G.
language: eng
keywords: Geography, Urban and Regional Planning
date published: 2011-05-07T12:05:31Z
date modified: 2026-07-22T22:25:12Z
provider: University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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