CITB02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Social Inequality, Sub-Saharan Africa, Urban Planning
Document Summary
Within the context of global urban change, no issue is more important than age old urban" problem: poverty, social inequality, communities plagued by slum conditions of almost unimaginable proportions. A problem of urban slums is the issue of global urbanism. The challenge of slums: global report on human settlements 2003: the first global assessment of slums. Global estimates of the number of urban slum dwellers. Examination of the global, regional, and local factors discussing the formation of slums. Without the help of municipal, national governments and civil society actors, the number of slum dwellers would increase dramatically. New promising approaches: scaling up of participatory slum upgrading programmes. 31. 6% of the world"s population lives in slums: most of them were in developing regions, highest: sub saharan africa -71. 9, lowest: oceania 24. 1% Asia had 554 million slum dwellers in 2001 and europe had 54 million.
