What is it about?
Using a range of case studies of Voluntary Service Overseas volunteers who have worked on community based low-cost building programmes in a variety of countries and settings helps illustrate the issues, concerns and most importantly, the processes which can determine the success or failure of a community building project.
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Why is it important?
This book examines the role of cultural tradition and the local environment in determining a community's attitude towards housing and its construction. It offers practical advice to enable planners and enablers of building projects to assess effectively a community's needs and the factors which shape their own requirements for change.
Perspectives
This is a first book where the opportunity for reciprocal learning was uncovered; where the problems associated with not building for yourself became part of the agenda: how the global north with all its resources but almost complete exclusion of residents from the housing process could learn from those who build for themselves with a limited set of materials.
Maurice Mitchell
London Metroipolitan University
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This page is a summary of: Culture, Cash and Housing, January 1992, Practical Action Publishing,
DOI: 10.3362/9781780444741.
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