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MCGill School of Architecture
Minimum Cost Housing Group
<http://www.mcgill.ca/mchg/publications/>

Minimum Cost Housing in Developing Countries Publication Series

We are currently working in making all research paper series digitally 
available. Please visit this page again.

Research Paper Series

No. 15: Housing a Billion: Volume 2- Village Upgrading,
Vikram Bhatt et al., 65 ps., December 1993.

No. 14: Housing a Billion: Volume 1- Design Ideals for Rural China,
Vikram Bhatt et al., 70 ps., January 1993.

No.12: How the Other Half Builds: Volume 3 - The Self-Selection Process, Vikram Bhatt et al. 44 ps., March 1990. An 
illustration (using Indian data) of a new method that allows low-income users to lay out their own plots in large urban 
sites and services projects.

No.11: Patterns of Space and Human Activity in an Unplanned Settlement, Waldo 
Pons and Witold Rybczynski 11ps., March 1988.

No. 10: How the Other Half Builds: Volume 2 - Plots,
Carlos Barquin et al. 53 ps., June 1986.

No. 9: How the Other Half Builds: Volume 1 - Space,
Witold Rybczynski et al. 86 ps., December 1984.

No.8: Double-Vault Composting Toilets: A-State-of-the-Art Review,Witold 
Rybczynski, 27 os., December 1981.

No.7: Sites, Services and Supports (S/S/S), Sigrid Diehl et al.,58 ps., 
August 1978.

No.2: Users Making Choices: Water and Waste Management in Small Northern Communities, T. Jackson et al., 84 ps., August 
1978.

No.1: Servicing Options for African Low Cost Housing, Mahendra Shah, 114 ps., 
April 1980
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The Problem is Series

Use it Again, Sam, Witold Rybczynski, ed., 60 ps., 1980.

Stop the Five Gallon Flush, Witold Rybczynski, ed., 47 ps.,(out of print) 
being revised

Water Conservation and the Mist Experience, Alex Morse et al., 60 ps., July 
1978.

Rooftop Wastelands, Ron Alward et al., 32 ps., November 1976.

L'operation ecol: ecologie + construction + bon sens, Alvaro Ortega et al. (traduit par Bernard et Danielle Lefebvre) 
128 pages, photographies, 1975.

The Ecol Operation: Ecology + Building + Common sense, Alvaro Ortega et al. 
128 ps., photographs, expanded edition 1975.
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Audio-visual Educational Material

Human Settlements Training Packages

The purpose of the Human Settlements Training packages is to provide audio-visual material that can be used by 
architecture and planning schools, and housing institutions. To introduce students, architects, planners, engineers and 
urban designers to new ideas for planning low-income urban housing and innovative low-cost technologies that are more 
responsive to the demands and affordability of users, that are more effective at providing a good living environment, 
and that reflects a sensitivity to the lifestyle of the urban poor in developing countries. The material in these 
packages is based on several years of field work and research that has been carried out by Vastu-Shilpa Foundation, 
Ahmedabad and the Minimum Cost Housing Group, with the support of the Canadian International Development Agency.

Each set comes in a three-ring binder, with audio cassette/s, and 10 copies of a "Participant's Folder" that includes 
Presentation text, Questions and Topics for Discussion, Practical Exercise, and other Technical Information.

Package 1: The Design Guidelines: Consists of 7 modules, Introduction, Neighbourhood Streets, Work Places, Small Shops, 
Trees and Public Spaces, House Extensions and Using the Guidelines (329 slides and 4 audio tapes).

Package 2: Affordable Urban Design: Consists of 4 modules, Introduction, Site Planning, Infrastructure Design and House 
Form Variations (159 slides and 1 audio cassette).

Package 3: Residential Open Spaces: Consists of 2 modules, Introduction, and Design Criteria (84 slides and 1 audio 
cassette).

Package 4: Low-cost Technologies - Ferrocement: Consists of 3 modules, Introduction, Design Considerations and 
Application in Housing (125 slides and 1 audio cassette).

Package 5: Low-cost Technologies -Pour-Flush Sanitation System: Consists of 1 
module (39 slides and 1 audio cassette).

Package 6: The Self-Selection Design Approach: Consists of 2 modules, Introduction and the Self-selection Process (86 
slides and 1 audio cassette).


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Student research
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Student research
Note: We are currently updating the information for research reports from 
1996 to 2005. Please visit this page again.

A written thesis, based on research which the student has undertaken throughout the course of studies, is considered the 
core activity of the graduate program. See a list of theses completed by minimum cost housing students, organized 
chronologically according to submission dates, and containing abstracts in English and French.

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List of theses (with abstracts)
http://www.mcgill.ca/mchg/student/theses/
List of theses (with abstracts)

Also see lists of theses for 1981-1990
http://www.mcgill.ca/mchg/student/theses/1981-1990/
Also see lists of theses for 1971-1980
http://www.mcgill.ca/mchg/student/theses/1971-1980/