Rehabilitation of a Slum Area in Panama City, R.P.
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Date
1953-03
Authors
Silvera, Consuelo
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Publisher
University of Oregon
Abstract
The project developed in this thesis is the Rehabilitation of a Slum Area in Panama City, R.P. The district is called "Chorrillo" and it had a population of 27,375 inhabitants in 1950, at a density of 500 people her Hectare. The solution to proposed dwells only 20,000 at its maximum occupancy, at a density of 410 people per Hectare. To rehabilitate this sector is was necessary to make a general study of the whole city, based in the studies made in 1941 by Mr. Karl Brunner and in the information gathered by the Bank of Urbanism in Panama. It included study of geographic, economic, historic, cultural, and climate aspects.
Description
54 pages
Keywords
town planning theory, low income population