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Government purchasing of real property --- Human settlements --- Low-income housing --- Public housing --- Squatter settlements --- Government policy
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"A fairly comprehensive monograph, highly suitable for classroom use, that offers a wide range of information fit into traditional anthropological categories. . . . an interesting study of cultural integrity and pattern in a setting of what appears to be complex sociopolitical chaos." -American Anthropologist "Whether or not one accepts Susan Lobo's optimistic analysis, her ability to translate the apparent chaos of shanty-town lives into such neat patterns and to help outsiders view life as the inhabitants do are important contributions." -Inter-American Review of Bibliography "An extremely competent ethnography, simple and straightforward." -Anthropos "A pleasure to read, a mine of information which will be useful in teaching students to formulate their own hypotheses." -International Journal of Urban & Regional Research "Very well written and provides a great wealth of the liveliest sort of ethnographic detail." -Latin American Research Review "Lobo's study of two squatter settlements in Lima provides a solid, well-written, detailed, traditional ethnography of poor families in a Third World urban setting." -Hispanic American Historical Review "This well-written account . . . has a lot of heart and feeling for the human face of the urban poor." -International Migration Review
Squatter settlements --- Community development --- Informal settlements (Squatter settlements) --- Irregular settlements --- Settlements, Spontaneous --- Settlements, Squatter --- Shack towns --- Shanty towns --- Shantytowns --- Spontaneous settlements --- Uncontrolled settlements --- Cities and towns --- Slums --- Regional development --- Economic assistance, Domestic --- Social planning --- Citizen participation --- Government policy --- Lima (Peru) --- Ciudad de los Reyes (Peru) --- Chorrillos (Peru) --- Social conditions.
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