POLI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Millennium Development Goals, Extreme Poverty, United Nations Human Settlements Programme
8 Apr 2017
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Will be most important quotes studied after the midterm. Will focus on most important concepts after the midterm. Can use any three texts from the year. Not necessarily the shinny technology based world we envision. Mike davis says it will be cardboard, sheet metal, mud brinks odds and endures put together to create a shelter. More than 1 billion people live in slums, majority in developing work, but not all. Poverty no longer in the rural areas now majority in cities. If left unchecked the slum population will double within 15 years. Embody the worst urban life, poverty, inequality and insecurity. Movies like slumdog millionaire can being awareness to the issues within slums. The slum has come a destination for tourism for those who are privileged. Most people are only willing to pay and donate if they see something first. Most people are only willing to pay and donate if they see something first hand.
