Barriadas and Housing Policy in the Aftermath of the 1950 Cusco Earthquake

• Autor: Pinley Covert, Lisa
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2022
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/27291
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/historica/article/view/27291
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Housing; Shantytowns; Earthquake; Disasters; Developmentalism; Peru; Viviendas; Barriadas; Terremoto; Desastres; Desarollo; Perú

This article examines the efforts to address the housing crisis in the aftermath of the 1950 earthquake in Cusco, Peru. Mid-twentieth-century Cusco served as an early incubator for ideas about affordable housing and development in Peru. Peruvian and foreign experts sought to rebuild Cusco as a beacon of modernity in the Andes. Still, for the most part, these global designs failed to come to fruition, leaving poor, working-class, mostly Indigenous cusqueños to improvise their own solutions. The article argues that this experience in Cusco helped shape housing policy in Peru more broadly.