Waarom zien veel gebouwen rond de Middellandse Zee er onaf uit?

Als de vraag is waarom ze iets in de landen rond de Middellandse Zee zo doen, dan mag het antwoord hopelijk mede verwijzen naar wat men elders doet.

Eerst over Griekenland: “Why do so many houses seem unfinished?
This question addresses two issues: houses that look unfinished and houses that are unfinished and maybe have stood so for a long time.
In the first instance the houses may _look_ unfinished because iron bars stick on top of the roofs. This is absolutely not to avoid paying property tax (as the legend has it) but to simplify the building of another floor in some distant future.
A house could also _be_ unfinished because the owners are waiting for money to continue with the building. Until a few years ago Greece had a very high inflation rate and it was wise to put any money you had into a house and build whenever money became available. Although the inflation is now on par with the rest of Europe it seems that this habit is still surviving.” http://www.west-crete.com/crete-faqs.htm “Unfinished buildings is a common sight in Greece. The reason is that greek people build what they need today and leave the rest of the building unfinished for the future. The iron bars sticking out from the roof are exclusively there for the purpose of a later extension of the house. They have nothing to do with exemptions from taxpaying as long as the house isn't yet finished. (It's a good story though)!” http://www.explorecrete.com/mycrete/customs/greek-customs.html Over Egypte en het Midden-Oosten in het algemeen: “Homes look unfinished with their rebar Mohawks (ik begrijp dit als “hanenkammen van ijzeren staven”), but that’s just an alternative to a bank account as villagers sink their extra cash into an upper story for their children. They build little by little as the cash becomes available. Equity in a bigger home is considered more stable than socking money away in a bank account. Throughout the Middle East, exposed rebar is a reminder that parents build equity and provide for their children’s security by continuously adding to their homes as they gather a little extra cash.” http://blog.ricksteves.com/blog/al-gawahra-village-30-minutes-by-horse-carriage-and-a-world-away-from-luxor/ (vervolg in reactie 2)

Ook over Egypte, met tevens een vermelding voor het gevaar van de aardbeving die ooit zal komen: “The poverty is so obvious right from the highway. Thousands of shoddy brick buildings sit half built with columns and rebar sticking out of them. Often there are tents or domiciles on the roofs and unfinished floors. It looks like people simply build their rooms one brick at a time when they find the money.
Clearly there are virtually no building codes. My thoughts are that when Egypt gets hit with a catastrophic earthquake, and it will given its location near a subduction zone, the devastation is going to be overwhelming and almost unlike anything any of us have ever seen. Remember, nearly 13 million people live in this substandard construction.” http://www.taylorlenz.com/2011/02/arrival-in-cairo-and-first-impressions.html Het verschijnsel is trouwens niet beperkt tot de landen rond de Middellandse Zee.
In Zuid-Amerika kennen ze het ook. Zoals hier in Ecuador:
http://www.theartofwabisabi.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/FrontNeighborStairs.jpg “You see a lot of unfinished buildings like this – with re-bar sticking out of the ceiling. Planning ahead for that eventual second floor when the finances permit.”
http://www.theartofwabisabi.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/UnfinishedHouse.jpg Ik heb die twee foto’s er even mee uitgelicht, omdat het in de bron nogal wat scrollwerk is.
http://www.theartofwabisabi.com/2014/04/20/tumbaco/ Dan Peru en Bolivia: “Rebar. It’s everywhere. Sticking out ungraciously from the tops and sides of unfinished buildings across Peru and Bolivia. Even Cusco, that gringo paradise of stucco, adobe and intact Inca walls, hasn’t escaped the rebar curse. The suburbs are rife with it. The incompleteness doesn’t stop there. In Copacabana, a popular base for exploring Bolivian Lake Titicaca, some hotels were finished as if they were on a film set; grand from the front, but to the side the brickwork was exposed, plastering abandoned.” (vervolg in slot)

“Puno, on the Peruvian side of the lake, was one of the worst offenders. Unfinished building followed unfinished building. It was as if the builders got bored with one project before starting another. Or made a mistake and just started again next door. Families clearly lived on the ground floor whilst the wind and the rain inhabited the first, second, third or more floors. In places, cardboard stood in for windows. It’s thoroughly depressing to see as a tourist. Where buildings were once built with pride, using adobe and local grass for the roof, there is now a flux of cheap, flimsy red brick with corrugated tin placed on top (that must rattle in the rain…). The landscape behind all this amateur architecture is jaw-droppingly beautiful and these careless structures are cack-handed scars. I can’t imagine it’s any better for the permanent inhabitants, but experience tells me there’s always a reason behind the most apparently illogical and upsetting occurrences. In Peru, for example, there is no property tax to pay until the building is complete. That’s quite a loop hole and, in such a poor country, it’s unsurprising that so many people take advantage of it. Should the Peruvian government change this law, the view from the bus window may well be improved for the tourists passing through, but the extra costs would throw millions of Peruvians further into poverty and debt. In Bolivia, the reasoning goes a little deeper. There, nerve-wrackingly unsteady storeys cower on top of each other in a manner that would put a three-year old Lego enthusiast to shame. But, it’s not about aesthetics here, I’ve learnt. It’s about staking a claim. Bolivia, like Peru, is a country on the up, and whilst this generation can’t afford to live as comfortably as they’d like, they can help their kids to do so. Big houses are a symbol of potential status, particularly in El Alto, the self-built shanty town surrounding La Paz. Families there will go without proper fixtures and fittings in order to build bigger homes with the intention of, like their country, slowly but steadily modernising in the future. So, while they may not have a bathroom, they do have a lot of land to build one on when they can afford it. With this little-by-little attitude, living standards will gradually improve, and so, hopefully, will the view.” https://overlandtraveller.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/what%E2%80%99s-with-all-the-unfinished-buildings-in-peru-and-bolivia/

Nou nou, jij kan er wat van! Grondig werk. :-)