@phdthesis{theses_frw585,
           title = {Understanding the concept of self-organization within the informality in Villas in Buenos Aires, Argentina},
          author = {M.C. Almeida},
            year = {2015},
        abstract = {Slums are established as a solution for the urban poor in Developing World cities. These places are characterized by the lack of sanitation, inappropriate water supply, poor housing conditions, dangerous locations, limited access to employment, high levels of insecurity and detrimental environmental conditions. In Argentina, there are a consequence of economic crisis, weak planning policies and lack of governmental and social commitment. This is why the slums? dwellers started to seek alternative outcomes to fulfill their needs through spontaneous actions outside the regulatory framework occupying vacant land owned by the state. In addition they have changed the character of those places from empty plots to poor neighborhoods and as a result different patterns emerged within the villas: social, institutional and spatial patterns. Thus these spontaneous actions make essential to contemplate the concept of self-organization and transitions in order to understand the spatial development and growth of these slums.},
             url = {https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/585/}
}