Tugurios
Various slums in Central and South America are known as Tugurios .
Peru
A ring with modern buildings connects to the city center of Lima . This is followed by run-down residential areas, known as Tugurios in Lima. These came about because many typical city functions migrated to outer districts. Trading houses and banks in particular moved their locations to the affluent corridor.
Due to the ongoing loss of function and significance of the inner city, inner-city slums , the Tugurios, have increasingly formed on the edge . Their population is estimated at 150,000 to 200,000. The accommodations of the Tugurios are valued because of their low rent and proximity to work and supply facilities. Many of these houses used to belong to the wealthy classes. However, they are all dilapidated and have hardly any sanitary facilities and are often highly overcrowded. Since hardly any structural investments are made in the Tugurios, this "Tugurization" continues without any useful counteraction.
El Salvador
The Unión de Pobladores de Tugurios (UPT, Association of the Residents of the Tugurios) was an association founded in 1977 in the capital of El Salvador , San Salvador , or the local slum in the center of the city, the Barrio San Jacinto . When open fighting broke out between the FMLN and the army , the UPT was on the side of the liberation movement and had to be disbanded as a result of state repression.
literature
- Stein, Alfredo (1989), The 'tugurios' of San Salvador: a place to live, work and struggle , Environment and Urbanization Vol 1, No 2, October, pages 6-15.