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La Puntilla Housing: Study In Low Rise - High Density Urban Housing. San Juan, Puerto Rico, Jose Antonio Rodriguez Barcelo
La Puntilla Housing: Study In Low Rise - High Density Urban Housing. San Juan, Puerto Rico, Jose Antonio Rodriguez Barcelo
Architecture Master Theses
This study focuses on the problems of urban housing, with special emphasis on low to middle income, high density - low rise solutions. The findings of the research of this thesis are incorporated into a design solution of a low rise - high density development in La Puntilla sector of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Mutual Aid Housing For San Juan, Philip Lawrence Manson Goldberg
Mutual Aid Housing For San Juan, Philip Lawrence Manson Goldberg
Architecture Master Theses
A policy program for mutual aid construction is presented. In this approach, rural families organize teams to build their dwellings and buy construction materials through new savings organizations. The chief prerequisite for mutual aid in a specific situation is that the ratio of material to labor costs be high.
Pride in home ownership, training in construction skills, and natural evolved neighborhoods prove the thesis that mutual aid is the most promising solution for housing the poor in developing societies. Financial burden on the public is minimized, and the government can control municipal expansion by retaining land ownership.
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