Acknowledegments

Document:

Janeth SOLA, Corrections and translations
Sunita CHIRMALLA, Corrections and translations
Rutie STRANACK, Corrections and translations

Field Work:

CIUDAD, Centro de Investigaciones, Quito, Ecuador
GRET, Groupe de Recherche et d'Echanges technologiques, Paris, France
COHAB, Companhia de Habitação de Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil
H&D, Habitat et Devélopemment, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium
FUNHABIT, Fundación Ecuatoriana del Hábitat, Quito, Ecuador
FUNDASAL, Fundación Salvadoreña de Desarrollo y Vivienda Mínima, San Salvador, El Salvador.

Financial Support:

BRITISH COUNCIL, This thesis has been possible due to the financial support of the British Council.

Tutor:

Nabeel HAMDI, Oxford Brookes University

Reinhard GOETHERT, MIT,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Readers:
Rod BURGESS, Oxford Brookes University
Roddy MADDOCKS, Freelance.