Third World housing may be the world’s most unsolvable problem. - This briefing document: * introduces the problemsof Third World housing * examines the relative inability of accepted policies to solve them * reviews mud and other earth-based building materials in comparison with cement, bricks and other “modern” materials * examines the utility of mud-based materials in a score of countries in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe.
Publication year
1981
Authors
Language
English
Keywords
construction materials, developing countries, rural housing, living standards, tropics
