PlanetofSlums: January 2016

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

1) Find and label the cities of Lagos and Jakarta on the map.

2 ) What country and continent is Lagos in? _____________, __________________.

3) What country and continent is Jakarta in? ______________, ________________.

4) Why does the author compare today’s Third World Urbanization to London in 1910?

5) Describe the comparison between the population growth of Chinese cities in the 1980’s and the population growth of Europe in the 19^th Century.

6 ) Look at Figure 1, “World Population Growth.” Describe the change in population growth between 1950 and 2030.

7) Look at Figure 2 “Third World Megacities.” For the following cities, what is the % increase of population between 1950 and 2004? (To calculate the percentage increase: First: work out the difference (increase) between the two numbers you are comparing. Then: divide the increase by the original number and multiply the answer by 100.)

Mexico City _______________ New York ___________

Jakarta _______________ Bogota’ _____________

8) Find and label the cities of Dhaka and Karachi on the map.

9) What country and continent is Dhaka in? ___________, _____________.

10) What country and continent is Karachi in? ___________, _____________.

11) What year will be the middle of the 21^st Century? _______________.

12) If Mexico City reaches its predicted “mid-twenty-first century population,” what % increase would that represent compared to Mexico City’s 2004 population? ________________.

13) Find and label Sao Paulo on the map?

14) What country and continent is Sao Paulo in? ____________, _______________.

15) What does the author mean when he writes that, in Sao Paulo, “urbanization and favelization” are synonymous?

16) What does the author mean by “annual housing deficit”?

17) The estimated 2015 slum population of “Black Africa” is comparable to the total population of what nation? ___________

18) What point is the author making in the last sentence on p. 19?

Student Name_______________

MEGASLUMS

Slum Name: ___________________

City Name: ____________________

Country Name: ______________________

Continent Name: _____________________

City Population: _______________________

Location on World Map (print, label, paste):

Images of the slum:

Population Density of City (calculate showing area and population):

Population Density of Slum (calculate showing area and population):

Colonial History of City/Country (what other nations have controlled this place? When? When did the country become independent?):

Wealth or Poverty of Country (average annual income):

Recent wars or natural disasters that have affected the country or the city:

Main economic activities of the country:

Building materials or building types of the slum:

Construction of a Slum

1. Construct a dwelling big enough for two people to both stand and recline in when they are side-by-side.

2. Confine your dwelling to the designated area (don’t build on streets, rivers, tracks, etc)

3) Include walls on each side, a floor and a roof.

4) Water-proof your roof using tarp.

5) Build a way up and down, and in and out.

6) Provide natural light and ventilation

7) Do not block anyone’s pathways, doorways or windows.

8) Use duct tape ONLY TO ATTACH PIECES

9) Make it all PLUMB and LEVEL (more or less)

PLANET OF SLUMS – Visualizing Population Density

INSTRUCTIONS:

1) Calculate the population density of these 8 Cities (population/area = density) and record the answer in the blank spaces on the chart.

2) Create an info-grid for each of these 8 cities, showing population density by filling in the cells on the grid.

3) Attempt to “scatter” the colored cells as much as possible. Don’t color adjacent cells unless it is necessary.

4) Use the same scale for each of the 8 cities.

City Area (square km) Population Density (people/sq km)

Albuquerque	486	545,852
Nairobi Kenya	694	3,138,369
Mexico City	1,485	8,874,724
Los Angeles	1,213	3,884,307
Bogota Columbia	859	7,776,845
London England	1,572	8,416,500
Hyderabad Pakistan	114	3,429,471
Dhaka Bangladesh	153	6,970,105

Pope presses case for adequate, dignified housing in Nairobi

By NICOLE WINFIELD Nov. 26, 2015

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Pope Francis is visiting a slum on Nairobi's northwestern edge to press his call for adequate and dignified housing for society's most marginal, especially in burgeoning megacities like the Kenyan capital.

Francis has frequently insisted on the need for the three "Ls" — land, labor and lodging — and on Friday he's expected to focus on housing as a critical issue facing the world amid rapid urbanization that is helping to upset Earth's delicate ecological balance.

Kangemi is one of 11 slums dotting Nairobi, East Africa's largest city. The shanty itself has about 50,000 residents living without basic sanitation. Most of the capital's slums comprise a maze of single-room mud structures with iron-sheet roofing or cramped, high-rise buildings.

Francis referred to the problem of urban shanties in his speech to the African U.N. headquarters on Thursday, saying everyone has a basic right to "dignified living conditions," and that the views of local residents must be taken into account when urban planners are designing new construction.

"This will help eliminate the many instances of inequality and pockets of urban poverty, which are not simply economic but also, and above all, social and environmental," he said.

The message was keenly felt because the U.N. Habitat program, which seeks to promote adequate and environmentally sustainable housing, is based in Nairobi.

Francis raised the issue of environmental deterioration in cities in his landmark encyclical "Praise Be," saying many megacities today have simply become health threats, "not only because of pollution caused by toxic emissions but also as a result of urban chaos, poor transportation, and visual pollution and noise."

"Many cities are huge, inefficient structures, excessively wasteful of energy and water. Neighborhoods, even those recently built, are congested, chaotic and lacking in sufficient green space. We were not meant to be inundated by cement, asphalt, glass and metal, and deprived of physical contact with nature," he said.

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Slum Research Links

Neza/Chalco/Itza (Mexico City) Kevin P, Brodie, Alberto D,

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/Global_Report/cities/mexico.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_Nezahualc%C3%B3yotl

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valle_de_Chalco

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixtapaluca

Libertador (Caracas) Jose?, Refugio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertador_Bolivarian_Municipality

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-24/venezuela-caracas-super-slum-tower-of-david/5620814

El Sur/Ciudad Bolivar (Bogota) Onel

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/Global_Report/cities/bogota.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_Bol%C3%ADvar_(Bogot%C3%A1)

http://urban-refugees.org/bogota-colombia/

San Juan de Lurigancho (Lima) Daniel C

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/Global_Report/cities/lima.htm

http://limaperu2013.weebly.com/slums.html

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/Global_Report/pdfs/Lima.pdf

Cono Sur (Lima) Jesus

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/Global_Report/cities/lima.htm

http://limaperu2013.weebly.com/slums.html

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/Global_Report/pdfs/Lima.pdf

Ajegunle (Lagos) David S

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagos

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/Global_Report/cities/ibadan.htm

http://resourcedat.com/document/urban-slums-reportsthe-case-of-ibadan-nigeria/

Sadr City (Baghdad) Andrew F

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadr_City

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/05/iraq-housing-crisis-slums.html#

Soweto (Gauteng) Shannon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannesburg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soweto

http://johannesburg2012.jimdo.com/slums/

Gaza (Palestine) Marsz

http://www.merip.org/mer/mer136/gaza-israels-soweto

http://library.iugaza.edu.ps/thesis/104481.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/world/middleeast/forgotten-neighborhood-underscores-growing-poverty-of-gaza.html?_r=0

Orangi Township (Karachi) Kevin G

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/Global_Report/cities/karachi.htm

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/Global_Report/pdfs/Karachi.pdf

Cape Flats (Cape Town) Andrew H

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Town

http://capetown2012.jimdo.com/slums/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khayelitsha

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Flats

Pikine (Dakar) Adrian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakar_Region
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikine
http://crs-blog.org/floodwater-turns-dakar-slum-into-swamp/

Imbaba (Cairo) Andrea, J. Aguilar, Ivan

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/Global_Report/cities/cairo.htm

http://cargocollective.com/linaelshamy/The-Slums-of-Cairo

Ezbet El-Haggana (Cairo) Lilly

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/Global_Report/cities/cairo.htm

http://cargocollective.com/linaelshamy/The-Slums-of-Cairo

Cazenga (Luanda) Gabriel Flores
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luanda_Province

http://www.africaranking.com/20-worst-slums-in-africa/2/

Dharavi (Mumbai) Alejandra

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/Global_Report/cities/mumbai.htm

Kibera (Nairobi) Mary B

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/Global_Report/cities/nairobi.htm

http://unhabitat.org/books/kibera-integrated-water-sanitation-and-waste-management-project/

http://urban-refugees.org/nairobi/

El Alto (La Paz) Sabrina

City of the Dead (Cairo) Jerry

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/Global_Report/cities/cairo.htm

http://cargocollective.com/linaelshamy/The-Slums-of-Cairo

Sucre (Caracas) Julian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertador_Bolivarian_Municipality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Caracas_earthquake

Islamshahr (Tehran) Alex C
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehran
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=19790705&id=QYkwAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1_oDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5333,1762463&hl=en

Tlapan (Mexico City) Alex R

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/Global_Report/cities/mexico.htm

Inanda INK (Durban) Norma R

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/Global_Report/cities/durban.htm

Manshiet Nasr (Cairo) Bryan P

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manshiyat_Naser

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/Global_Report/cities/cairo.htm

http://cargocollective.com/linaelshamy/The-Slums-of-Cairo

Altindag (Ankara) Eric Aviles

Mathare (Nairobi) Eric H

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/Global_Report/cities/nairobi.htm

http://urban-refugees.org/nairobi/

Aguas Blancas (Cali) Mike P, Angel

Agege (Lagos) Cisco J

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/Global_Report/cities/ibadan.htm

http://resourcedat.com/document/urban-slums-reportsthe-case-of-ibadan-nigeria/

Cite-Soleil (Port-au-Prince) Ernesto

Masina (Kinshasa) Josiah R

Rocina (Rio) Roman F, Lawrence F.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/Global_Report/cities/rio.htm

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/Global_Report/pdfs/Rio.pdf

(various slums) Manilla: (Fabian) (Minena Cabassa-Cruz)