GGR100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Deindustrialization, The Dilemma, Human Waste
Document Summary
Rapid urbanization: the urban crisis has shifted to poor countries, growth of people living in cities in places where there is very little capacity to provide services such as water supply, waste management, education. Massive growth of poverty inequality, slums: in the past we saw this with european cities, poverty. Deforestation in africa, and killing of wild animals for bush meat: people need it to survive, thus it is becoming an environmental issue. Spread of toxic waste is directly related to poverty: plastic blowing everywhere in india, every 50meters there is street cleaners, they will burn piles of plastic. Issues of global sustainability: the patterns of urbanization today that is radically unsustainable and are becoming a huge issue for the climate in the future. Questions about urban resilience: creating cities and communities that can withstand shocks: economic, environmental, political, cities can be based where life can be sustained in the design of a disaster.
