2016 Visiting Scholar Olumuyiwa Adegun presents his research: European cities of the nineteenth century, like African cities today, experienced severe housing problems. Shanty towns marked Berlin and Paris in ways that are similar to how Nairobi and Johannesburg have been characterized by informal settlements in the last few decades. This lecture explores the history of(...)
Shaughnessy House
4 August 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Olumuyiwa Adegun
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2016 Visiting Scholar Olumuyiwa Adegun presents his research: European cities of the nineteenth century, like African cities today, experienced severe housing problems. Shanty towns marked Berlin and Paris in ways that are similar to how Nairobi and Johannesburg have been characterized by informal settlements in the last few decades. This lecture explores the history of(...)
Shaughnessy House
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Other publications
AP149.S2.SS2
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File related to other publications by the Minimum Cost Housing Group, or publication to which the group participated, about low-cost housing and energy saving devices, including to various edition of the publication "Open House International". The material in this file was produced in the 1970s and between 1981 and 1988. The file contains textual records, predominantly dummies, including a dummy for the publication "Open House International", but also correspondence and photographs related to these publications.
1970-1988
Other publications
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AP149.S2.SS2
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File related to other publications by the Minimum Cost Housing Group, or publication to which the group participated, about low-cost housing and energy saving devices, including to various edition of the publication "Open House International". The material in this file was produced in the 1970s and between 1981 and 1988. The file contains textual records, predominantly dummies, including a dummy for the publication "Open House International", but also correspondence and photographs related to these publications.
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1970-1988
Project
AP149.S1.1995.PR01
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This project series documents Minimum Cost Housing Group's project a proposal for urban upgrading in La Esperanza, Mexico in collaboration with the municipal gouvernment of Zihuatanejo, in 1995 and 1996. The project for upgrading popular housing, is also known as the "Fingers of Hope" (in Spanish "Los dedos de la esperanza).Included in the project series are documents related to the production of presentation panels for the proposal of urban upgrading and the final version of the presentation panels with photographs and houses plans.
1995
Urban upgrading proposals in Mexico
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AP149.S1.1995.PR01
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This project series documents Minimum Cost Housing Group's project a proposal for urban upgrading in La Esperanza, Mexico in collaboration with the municipal gouvernment of Zihuatanejo, in 1995 and 1996. The project for upgrading popular housing, is also known as the "Fingers of Hope" (in Spanish "Los dedos de la esperanza).Included in the project series are documents related to the production of presentation panels for the proposal of urban upgrading and the final version of the presentation panels with photographs and houses plans.
Project
1995
textual records
AP149.S2.SS3.047
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Reference material from the reference library of the Minimum Cost Housing Group. Includes photocopies of publication on on urban agriculture, such as policies and regulations, implementation and case study. Also includes a folder on a case study in China, a folder on slums and housing improvement for self-help and a folder on housing policies in Africa.
1970s-1990s
Reference material on urban agriculture
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AP149.S2.SS3.047
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Reference material from the reference library of the Minimum Cost Housing Group. Includes photocopies of publication on on urban agriculture, such as policies and regulations, implementation and case study. Also includes a folder on a case study in China, a folder on slums and housing improvement for self-help and a folder on housing policies in Africa.
textual records
1970s-1990s
Project
AP149.S1.1984.PR01
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This project series documents Minimum Cost Housing Group's post-occupancy study for Aranya Township, India, which was a newly development township completed in 1988 near Indore. Minimum Cost Housing Group initially work on the design of a plot of the township, which was the first one to be built and served as an alternative model to the whole township. The masterplan for the township was created by architect Balkrishna Doshi and the Vastu-Shilpa Foundation in 1981. The other plots started to be planned by and built in 1989. The Minimum Cost Housing Group then returned to Aranya to undertake the post-occupancy survey of the whole site and students from the group kept studying the site up to 2018. The material for this file was produced between 1984 and 2012. The project series contains slides, study drawings of the township and a publication on the post-occupancy study by the McGill group.
1984-2002
Aranya township post-occupancy study
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AP149.S1.1984.PR01
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This project series documents Minimum Cost Housing Group's post-occupancy study for Aranya Township, India, which was a newly development township completed in 1988 near Indore. Minimum Cost Housing Group initially work on the design of a plot of the township, which was the first one to be built and served as an alternative model to the whole township. The masterplan for the township was created by architect Balkrishna Doshi and the Vastu-Shilpa Foundation in 1981. The other plots started to be planned by and built in 1989. The Minimum Cost Housing Group then returned to Aranya to undertake the post-occupancy survey of the whole site and students from the group kept studying the site up to 2018. The material for this file was produced between 1984 and 2012. The project series contains slides, study drawings of the township and a publication on the post-occupancy study by the McGill group.
Project
1984-2002
Book of press clippings
ARCH273555
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Book of press clippings about the Minimum Cost Housing Group and other related subjects.
1970s
Book of press clippings
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ARCH273555
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Book of press clippings about the Minimum Cost Housing Group and other related subjects.
1970s
books
Book of press clippings
AP149.S2.SS3.082
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Book of press clippings about the Minimum Cost Housing Group and other related subjects.
1970s
Book of press clippings
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AP149.S2.SS3.082
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Book of press clippings about the Minimum Cost Housing Group and other related subjects.
books
1970s
textual records
AP149.S2.SS3.046
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Reference material from the reference library of the Minimum Cost Housing Group. Includes photocopies of publication on self-help process and housing and documentation on urban agriculture, such as policies and regulations, implementation and case study.
1970s-1990s
Reference material on self-help and urban agriculture
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AP149.S2.SS3.046
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Reference material from the reference library of the Minimum Cost Housing Group. Includes photocopies of publication on self-help process and housing and documentation on urban agriculture, such as policies and regulations, implementation and case study.
textual records
1970s-1990s
books
AP149.S1.1984.PR01.005
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Publication "'Aranya': Low Cost Housing at Indore: Post Occupancy Evaluation" by the Vastu-Shilpa Foundation on post-occupancy evaluation of the Aranya township development site, near Indore, for the Aranya Project, before the Minimum Cost Housing Group project.
ca. 1984
Documentation on the Aranya project site
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AP149.S1.1984.PR01.005
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Publication "'Aranya': Low Cost Housing at Indore: Post Occupancy Evaluation" by the Vastu-Shilpa Foundation on post-occupancy evaluation of the Aranya township development site, near Indore, for the Aranya Project, before the Minimum Cost Housing Group project.
books
ca. 1984
books
ARCH253671
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Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Water Conservation and the Mist Experience" about the domestic water saving devices.
July 1978
Water Conservation and the Mist Experience
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ARCH253671
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Minimum Cost Housing Group's publication "Water Conservation and the Mist Experience" about the domestic water saving devices.
books
July 1978