Roaming the Boundaries: The Less Explored Roles of Architects in the Low-Income Settlements of Texas.

CARLOS A. REIMERS

The Catholic University of America

Roaming the Boundaries: The Less Explored Roles of Architects in the Low-Income Settlements of Texas.

- colonias are periurban settlements

- extra legal development

- architecture and low-income housing - in US: contemporary efforts date back to work of 

Charles Abrams: 

1. Legendary urban planner, policy maker
2. A. Scott Henderson: Housing and the Democratic Ideal: The Life and Thought of Charles Abrams
3. http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-11950-4/
4. book on social policy and state expansion in the early 20th Century U.S.