CITB02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter week3: Insitu, Local Economic Development, Informal Sector
UN READING (659-665) : KEY FINDINGS AND MESSAGES
-Millennium Development Goals and Targets for fighting
poverty/disease/hunger/illiteracy etc. and for improving the lives of slum dwellers
oFocused on the global/regional/local factors underlying the formation of slums,
along w/ their spatial/economic/social dynamics
oLooked at global estimates of how many urban slum dwellers there are
oConcluded: without any help from municipal/national gov. and international
comm., the number of slum dwellers is likely to increase in most developing
countries
The main findings
-In 2001, 924m people lived in slums (majority in developing world, 6% in developed)
Asia had most in terms of absolute numbers
Slum dwellers increased substantially in the 1990s, expected to be 2b in the next 30
years
-In Asia, general urban housing standards improved during the decade and formal
building kept pace w/ urban growth (until financial crisis of 1997) however: urban
pop. Grew faster than the capacity of cities to support them, so slums increased,
Particularly in South Asia
-Urbanization reached saturation levels of 89% in Latin America so slum growth
decreased, but housing deficits are still high and slums are prominent in most cities
-Similar case w/ sub-Saharan Africa (housing stress, high rents, low incomes) large
housing program did help to reduce slum #s though
- Growing global concerns about slums
Gov. have adopted specific target on slums try to improve lives of 100m of them
by 2020
- Slums are a physical and spatial manifestation of urban poverty and intra-city inequality
oHowever: not all slum dwellers are poor/nor are all of the world’s poor in
slums 3b people live on less than $2 USD daily
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Document Summary
Un reading (659-665) : key findings and messages. In 2001, 924m people lived in slums (majority in developing world, 6% in developed) Asia had most in terms of absolute numbers. Slum dwellers increased substantially in the 1990s, expected to be 2b in the next 30 years. In asia, general urban housing standards improved during the decade and formal building kept pace w/ urban growth (until financial crisis of 1997) however: urban pop. Grew faster than the capacity of cities to support them, so slums increased, Urbanization reached saturation levels of 89% in latin america so slum growth decreased, but housing deficits are still high and slums are prominent in most cities. Similar case w/ sub-saharan africa (housing stress, high rents, low incomes) large housing program did help to reduce slum #s though. Gov. have adopted specific target on slums try to improve lives of 100m of them by 2020.
