RESEARCH: links

• SPERIMENTARE L'AUTOCOSTRUZIONE - ESPERIENZE DEGLI STUDENTI NEL LABORATORIO TECNOLOGICO
  Attività e lavori prodotti dagli studenti del laboratorio tecnologico della Facoltà di Architettura del Politecnico di Torino.

• Fourth World Documentation Project
  Their goal is to present the online community with the greatest possible access to Fourth World (i.e., Nations forcefully incorporated into states which maintain a distinct political culture but are internationally unrecognized).documents and resources.

• MUTIRAO
  No Brasil, a palavra MUTIRÃO significa um processo de trabalho voluntário desenvolvido por meio de ajuda mútua entre os participantes. Aqui vamos falar particularmente sobre o MUTIRÃO HABITACIONAL.
  In Brazil, the word MUTIRÃO indicates a self-help cooperative working process. Here it is used in the context of MUTUAL AIDED.

• McGill University MCHG HOME FRONT
  This site, mantained by McGill School of Architecture's Minimum Cost Housing Group, will provide information about the Group's research, training and publications activities. In addition, the site will also serve as a discussion forum for a wide variety of topics related to the human settlements and housing.

• SOUTHLINKS - United Nations Volunteers
  A project of United Nations Volunteers with resource centres in India, South Africa and Colombia. The objective of the project is to stimulate the exchange of information generated by grass roots practitioners through their actions, experiences and observations.

• HOUSING FINANCE
  Barbar Mumtaz (lecturer at the DPU, London) is interested in increasing our understanding of how poor households in the Third World manage to finance their housing

• INFORMAL CREDIT HOMEPAGE
  The "Informal Credit Homepage" deals with microcredit, community development and a whole lot of related issues. Much of the information is focused on developing countries of Asia.

• HOUSING RESEARCH
  In its ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATION SYSTEM, the University of Hong Kong will discuss the main issues concerning the public and private housing in Hong Kong or Mainland China.

  PUBLIC HOUSING IN SINGAPORE
  A research by Derren Tan, student at the Faculty of Built Environment, UNSW, Sidney, Australia. "The aim of this research programme is dual-fold. Firstly, it is a project that discusses public housing in Singapore and secondly, it is a project that will present its points using the World Wide Web so that we may be able to access the credibility and clarity of the presentation technique."

• MEGACITIES 2000
  The initiators of Megacities aim to assemble knowledge and understanding, for all imaginable disciplines, in an attempt to draw up a 'Codex megacities', somewhat comparable in terms of approach and ambition to the CIAM movement, but then adapted to world-wide cultural and economic diversity and using modern techniques of communication, such as Internet's WWW.

• CENTRAL AMERICA: Ed Brown's Political Economy Archive
  Research about 'The Political Economy of Development' and 'Central America: Dependency and Development' The bibliography section consists of over 500 entries organized under a series of topic headings.

Forum sui paesi in via di sviluppo - 12/1/1997