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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Housing in African Rural Contexts: The Nubian Vault. Opportunities for the Economic Market in the Rural Savannah Environments
Author : Emilio Caravatti
Published in: Sustainable Urban Development and Globalization
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
It is well known that the level of human development of most parts of West African nations is among the weakest of the whole planet. The housing sector, which responds to a primordial necessity, constitutes one of the greatest potential for exploiting resources that are still available and unexplored. The debate on housing issues is today mainly focused on the phenomenon of urbanization, where large megalopoles are fed with uninterrupted streams of populations from the countryside. It follows that most researches on the conditions of habitat ignore the state of rural housing where valuable case studies are virtually absent. An oblivion of research that hides an area of architectural intervention in which there is still a lot be done. The rural context is a decisive factor for a challenge to which the debate on architecture is also called to respond.