Urban Housing in Barbados, West Indies

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5289130
AutoresRobert B Potter (autor de correspondencia)
Año1989
Volumen155
Número1
Páginas81
Fecha de publicación1989-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGeographical Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/635384
OpenAlexW2106537180
IdiomaDE
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas6

Thinking concerning Third World housing has changed considerably over the past 20 years. The focus of this paper is urban housing in Barbados, where the evolution of the self-help vernacular architectural system during the early colonial era involved the combination of West African and southern English folk house types. It was the plantation-dominated land tenure system which, in combination with the local vernacular, gave rise to a distinctive form of movable chattel housing. Insecurity of tenure has served to impose a strict upper limit on the housing improvement efforts of a population long since convinced of the virtues of progressive self-help, of the sort advocated by J. F. C. Turner and other housing commentators. The present-day geographical and social outcomes of these historical forces are witnessed by marked variations in urban housing quality in Barbados, a feature illustrated by results drawn from the first ever comprehensive socio-geographical analysis of housing conditions in the Bridgetown metropolitan

Archaeology · Ethnology · Geography · West indies · History · Housing Market and Economics · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Planning and Governance