Review article

Some Aspects of Outlawed Housing Construction

Nataša Lončar-Butić ; Urbanistički zavod grada Zagreba Zagreb, Proleterskih brigada 45

Abstract

Outlawed housing construction is a phenomenon accompanying the process of urbanization and industrialization. Big towns, concentrating economic, political and cultural functions in themselves, attract masses of rural migrants. Neither the town nor a working organization are able to satisfy the housing aspirations of migrants, so they determine to solve their housing problem illegally. They build houses at the outskirts of towns without a working permit, and in the area assigned for other purposes. In such colonies, even the minimal conditions of urban way of dwelling are not satisfied.
Population of the outlawed builders is homogeneous for a series of their characteristics: for a basic motive leading to the outlawed housing construction, for the socially-professional structure and social origin, for a typical way of building the houses and for their quality, for the basic conditions of living. Concentrating of people of specific occupations and with a specific amount of income at certain areas in our towns, points at the elements of spacial segregation that reflects class-social strata of the society.
Reasons for the outlawed housing construction can be found both in the global social processes (onesidedness of urbanization) as well as in an inadequate policy in developing and planning of towns. Outlawed housing construction cannot be solved by means of negative steps (pulling down, administrative control), but by regulating the general social relations that will lessen the migratory movement and pressure on towns.

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Hrčak ID:

156288

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/156288

Publication date:

31.12.1975.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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