Slum City

Jan 23, 2021 14:42

Slum Cities Of Tomorrow - Feature, Documentary (plywood anyone?)

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Around a billion people worldwide live in slums, informal settlements typically populated by the urban poor.
These residents represent a third of the global urban population and drive over 90 percent of its growth.
By 2030, there’ll be two billion slum dwellers, residing primarily in Asian and African countries.
https://blog.dormakaba.com/slums-can-inspire-the-future-of-cities-heres-why/



A Street in Hong Kong

Two of the world’s largest informal settlements are on the outskirts of cities such as Cape Town, South Africa,
and Karachi, Pakistan. Others are "Garbage City," in Manshiyat Nasser, Cairo; Cite-Soleil, Port au Prince, Haiti;
Tondo, Manila, Philippines; Dharavi, Mumbai where the movie "Slumdog Millionaire," was filmed; Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl
(Neza), Mexico City; Kibera, Kawangware and Mathare, Nairobi, Kenya housing two-thirds population of the Kenyan capital;
8 Cities With the World’s Largest Slums
https://www.usnews.com/news/cities/articles/2019-09-04/the-worlds-largest-slums

So we have little much to complain about:

New York by Henry Miller

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