The key drivers behind the process of neighbourhood improvement A study of the process of neighbourhood improvement in Nuevo Pachacútec, municipality of Ventanilla, province of Callao, metropolis of Lima, Peru

Abstract

In developing countries housing is one of the major problems. In this research a couple of important aspects of the problems will come to order, namely the possibilities of residents to develop their own neighbourhoods in new urban expansions and the process factors that (seem to be) are important in that. This research aims to show the most important drivers behind the process of neighbourhood improvement and is an attempt to discover how the residents together with other stakeholders concerned try to improve their neighbourhood within a self-help settlement and in what way they deal with the occurring problems. The process of neighbourhood improvement begins immediately after the self-help settlement comes into existence and as time passes it develops. Every self-help settlement has its own history, own starting point where the first residents occupied a piece of land, own motives and goals of the migrants to migrate to a uninhabited piece of vacant land and to develop their own self-help settlement there. The theme of this research attempts to gain more insight in the manner how people try to build up their own neighbourhoods from nothing and how new settlements, such as the self-help settlement of Nuevo Pachacútec, slowly develop themselves as a new urban expansion on the edge of Lima in Perú.