MSDA // Photographs / M09

Overview

The following 8 galleries represent Mona Serageldin’s 35mm film slide collection on housing projects, as arranged in slide case M09, “ITP Housing Affordability Duplicates; Urban Fringes; Family and Development 1st Presentation,” consisting of color photographs and presentation slide graphics.

This selection of photographs documents a wide variety of housing contexts across the world, including informal settlements and new housing developments. Location primarily cover the Middle East, North Africa, and Latin America. Images in the collection were assembled for presentation in lectures and for use in I2UD’s executive training programs, among other projects. Themes for these projects include housing affordability, housing on the urban fringes, and urban development contexts for families. Images show housing overviews, exteriors, and interiors, as well as planning charts and maps.

Galleries 1 and 3 include photographs relating to I2UD’s International Training Programs.

Galleries 2, 5, and 7-8 represent housing project lectures and reports.

Galleries 4 and 6 cover urban fringes.

Galleries

For more context on I2UD’s work on housing and access to project reports, see relevant projects in the I2UD Digital Library:

• “The Use of Land and Infrastructure in the Self-Improvement Strategies of Urban Lower Income Families,” Paper by Mona Serageldin, UN-Habitat Report (Project ID: 1993_05_001)
• ITP 1988: “Housing Affordability: Project Appraisal and Program Structure,” with Boston Redevelopment Authority Site Visit, International Training Programs (Project ID: 1988_00_002)
• Design Studio 1989: “Rabat’s Urban Fringe,” Urbanization Analysis of Rabat, Morocco – Seminar Curriculum (Project ID: 1989_01_001)

Related image collections:

• MSDA Photograph Collection M07: Informal Housing (1982-1988)
• MSDA Photograph Collection M01: Informal Housing, Cairo (1970-1985)
• I2UD Digital Library Study Guides, Informal Settlements Album

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GALLERY M09-1: International Training Program, Housing Affordability (1988-1990)

137 images

Gallery M09-1. MSDA: Mona Serageldin Digital Archive. Institute for International Urban Development. I2UD Digital Library. Digitized December 2021.

GALLERY M09-2: Housing Projects (1984-1986)

44 images

Gallery M09-2. MSDA: Mona Serageldin Digital Archive. Institute for International Urban Development. I2UD Digital Library. Digitized December 2021.

GALLERY M09-3: International Training Program (1988-1989)

112 images

Gallery M09-3. MSDA: Mona Serageldin Digital Archive. Institute for International Urban Development. I2UD Digital Library. Digitized December 2021.

GALLERY M09-4: Urban Fringe (Circa 1988)

20 images

Gallery M09-4. MSDA: Mona Serageldin Digital Archive. Institute for International Urban Development. I2UD Digital Library. Digitized December 2021.

GALLERY M09-5: Housing Projects, Aga Khan Program (Circa 1988)

29 images

Gallery M09-5. MSDA: Mona Serageldin Digital Archive. Institute for International Urban Development. I2UD Digital Library. Digitized December 2021.

GALLERY M09-6: Fringe Area Selection (Circa 1988)

35 images

Gallery M09-6. MSDA: Mona Serageldin Digital Archive. Institute for International Urban Development. I2UD Digital Library. Digitized December 2021.

GALLERY M09-7: Housing Projects, Aga Khan Trust for Culture (Circa 1988)

58 images

A selection of photographs on housing projects, largely of Istanbul, Turkey, assembled as presentation slides to accompany a lecture in relation to the Aga Khan Trust for Culture in the 1980s. The gallery showcases a wide variety of housing developments, including high-rise buildings, and includes overviews of residential neighborhoods and architecture, as well as detail views.

Gallery M09-7. MSDA: Mona Serageldin Digital Archive. Institute for International Urban Development. I2UD Digital Library. Digitized December 2021.

GALLERY M09-8: Use of Housing and Infrastructure (1989-1990)

93 images

Gallery M09-8. MSDA: Mona Serageldin Digital Archive. Institute for International Urban Development. I2UD Digital Library. Digitized December 2021.

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