Geography 2060A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Pavement Dwellers, Sub-Saharan Africa, Economic Globalization
4 Apr 2020
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Lecture 8 cities of sub saharan africa. Settlement characterized by overcrowding, poor or informal housing, inadequate access to safe water and sanitation, and insecurity of tenure. Formal: tenements, hand-me-downs, built for poor, b. public housing, hostels, flophouses, 2. Informal: squatters, authorized, unauthorized, b. pavement dwellers. Formal a private rental: b public housing, 2. Informal: pirate subdivisions, owner occupied, rental, b. squatters, authorized, unauthorized, 3. Located in unhealthy waterlogged areas (wetlands) or sides of hills. Minimal services: little or no sanitary and water supplies, definitely no solid waste disposal. Started by landlords or illegal squatting on public lands, sides of railroad lines or canals, public parks. Largely treated as a hindrance to ignore or hide. One of the least urbanized (37% urban dwellers) Very high rates of growth especially in east africa. Huge inequalities (economic globalization left it behind) Period of the trans-atlantic slave trade or european trade and exploration (1440 to 1850) First trading posts on the coast: e. g.
