Housing and Community
No. 8
Summer 1999
Decent housing for every citizen: this seemingly modest goal has bedeviled planners, architects, policy makers, and political leaders for much of this century, not only in the poor countries of the developing world but also in the prosperous nations of the first world. The following essays explore various efforts on four continents—official and unofficial, high design and vernacular—to come to grips with this most elemental question of shelter.
