... Planning Associates (TPA), a U.S.-based firm headed by Paul Lester Wiener and Josep Lluís Sert, and a series of aided self-help housing programs that began in the late 1950s. These schemes represent very different traditions of housing provision and urban planning: while TPA adhered to a modernist ethos...

... their professional purchase, claiming expertise by adopting urban planning’s overarching and pattern-identifying modes of social vision. The emergence and consolidation of modern architecture in Mexico, as elsewhere, were tied to architects’ claims of seeing the city as a whole and representing it as a complex...

... website, http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintinfo.asp . 2013 informal settlements self-built dwellings green slums urban planning I n the early 1950s, a city official described the housing situation on West Berlin’s northern fringe as follows: “Dwellings run from a parked trailer...