SIGUS: Special Interest Group in Urban Settlement

Massachussetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning

The Eight Site and Services/Core House Demonstration Projects of the ’70s

Title

The Eight Site and Services/Core House Demonstration Projects of the ’70s

Publication Type
Conference Paper
Conference Name
UN Habitat 6th International Conference ‘RESPONSIVE URBANISM IN INFORMAL AREAS’
Year of Publication
2014

Abstract

Dr. Reinhard Goethert and Dr. Martin Scoppa – the SIGUS Post-Doc from the MIT-Singapore program (SUTD) – attended the UN Habitat 6th International Conference 'RESPONSIVE URBANISM IN INFORMAL AREAS', hosted by Cairo University, November 25-27, 2014.  The conference was held in preparation for the National Urban Forum in 2015.  Goethert made a keynote presentation on 'Capturing Process of Informal  Housing Development'.  Both Scoppa and Goethert held a workshop on "GATHERING DATA WHEN ACCESS IS DIFFICULT – EXPERIMENTING WITH GOOGLE EARTH AS SURROGATE."  The eight site and services/core house projects in Egypt of the 70s were the projects assessed.