Jobs from housing : employment, building materials, and enabling strategies for urban development
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Jobs from housing : employment, building materials, and enabling strategies for urban development
Intermediate Technology Publications, 1993
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアジア専攻
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Includes bibliography
"...prepared by Cambridge Architectural Research on behalf of the Overseas Development Administration" -- t.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Based on evidence from throughout the developing world this book takes a fresh look at the processes and the problems of income generation through housing.
Table of Contents
- Preface va
- Part 1. The housing process and the economy 1
- 1. Urbanization and the need for housing 2
- 1.1 The inevitability of urbanization, 2
- 1.2 Measuring the need for housing, 4
- 1.3 Expected future populations, 5
- 1.4 Income and affordability, 6
- 1.5 Housing attributes, 8
- Case study: the development of Villa el Salvador, Peru, 10
- 2. The housing process ll
- 2.1 Housing as a verb, 11
- 2.2 Obstacles, 14
- 2.3 Shelter options, 17
- Case study: a proposed enabling strategy, Nepal, 25
- 3. Housing and the economy 28
- 3.1 Housing, construction and economic growth, 28
- 3.2 Forward linkages from construction, 29
- 3.3 Wealth generation through housing, 29
- 3.4 Backward linkages from housing and construction, 30
- 3.5 The effect of technology choice upon employment, 32
- Case study: producer co-operatives, Mozambique, 34
- 3.6 Maximizing the contribution of the building materials sector, 35
- Case study: supporting sustainable urban development, Egypt, 37
- Part 2. Promoting building materials supply 41
- 4. Economic charcteristics of building materials production 42
- 4.1 Classification of building materials industries, 42
- 4.2 High-tech industries (Group 1), 43
- 4.3 Unprocessed materials (Group 3), 45
- 4.4 Intermediate group of industries (Group 2), 46
- 4.5 Secondary products, 49
- 4.6 Factors affecting building materials' prices, 49
- Case study: minicement plants, India, 52
- 5. The crisis of building materials' supply 54
- 5.1 Indigenous materials, 54
- 5.2 Building practices, 57
- 5.3 Commercial introductions, 58
- 5.4 Appropriate Technologies, 60
- Case study: stabilized soil, Zambia, 64
- 6. Aid and technology transfer 66
- 6.1 Private entrepreneurs and state enterprises, 66
- 6.2 Banks, aid agencies and Appropriate Technology organizations, 67
- 6.3 Government organizations, 69
- 6.4 NGOs and the informal sector, 70
- 6.5 Products, prices and markets, 71
- Case study: the Santa Rosa housing co-operative, Ecuador, 73
- 7. Building materials and householder choice 76
- 7.1 Householder choice, 76
- 7.2 Influencing choice, 78
- Case study: the use of postcards at Centro Sinchaguasin, Ecuador, 82
- 8. Creating the policy context - the role of governments 84
- 8.1 Policy instruments, 84
- 8.2 Revitalization of high-tech large-scale industries, 85
- 8.3 Support to small-scale building material producers, 86
- Case study: supporting builders' yards, Karachi, 87
- 8.4 Encouragement of new investment in medium-sized plants, 87
- 8.5 Promotion of new and promising technologies, 88
- 8.6 Protection for the environment and expansion of the resource base, 89
- 8.7 Conflicting objectives, 90
- Case study: the Koma Rock housing project, Nairobi, 92
- 9. Summary and conclusions 94
- 9.1 Six general objectives, 95
- 9.2 Ten action proposals for governments, 96
- 9.3 Ten action proposals for aid agencies, 98
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