Statistics on Poverty, Urbanization and Slums. Content 1.
Trends in urbanization2. Numbers of slum dwellers3. Slums and human rights 1. Urbanization is on the rise. Two hundred years ago, Peking was the only city in the world with a population of a million. The half of the world’s population that lives in cities occupies only approximately 2.7% of the world’s land area. (source) (source) (source) (source) (source) Lagos and Cairo are Africa’s largest cities. . ^ back to top 2. Many of the city dwellers, especially in the Third World, live in slum conditions. (source, click image to enlarge) The UN estimates that the number of people living in slums passed 1 billion in 2007 and could reach 1.39 billion in 2020, although there are large variations among regions.
DISTOPIA LAB. Alejandro Aravena. ELEMENTAL is a for profit company with social interest, whose shareholders are the Universidad Católica de Chile, COPEC (Chilean Oil Company) and the Elemental founders.
Its field of action is the city: the development of housing, public space, infrastructure and transportation projects that can perform as an effective and efficient upgrade in the quality of life of the poor. ELEMENTAL operates in contexts of scarce resources, using the city as a source of equality, and moreover, as a shortcut to correct inequalities. When Elemental began in Harvard University in 2000, social housing was associated with a lack of economic and professional resources that had generated a lack of options for poor families.
Elemental wanted to change this negative association, using professional skills to work with social housing. SCALE. SPEED. Global Village Program. Builds with Global Village offer the opportunity to learn and share culture.
Not only do we build homes for truly amazing people, but we also experience the food, language, rituals and traditions that make up their culture. In this exchange, we tighten the global connections between ourselves and our new global friends. This GV trip to the Dominican Republic will draw us closer to the unique island culture of the Caribbean.
About Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic occupies the eastern two-thirds of the island Hispaniola, which is shared with Haiti. Covering 18,792 square miles (48,670 square kilometers), it is about twice the size of New Hampshire. The climate of the Dominican Republic is mostly tropical. Since then, Habitat for Humanity has built in nine regions of the Dominican Republic: Barahona, Paraíso, Polo, Jaquimeyes, Tamayo, Nagua, San Juan de la Maguana, San Francisco de Macorís and the city of Santo Domingo. You can learn more at or. The Rise And Fall Of Poverty Porn. The dramatic pseudo-orchestral music of '80s action-movie schlock begins.
Arnold Schwarzenegger appears on the screen, and for the next three minutes gets progressively more bloodied, beaten, and battered as he fights to rescue his on-screen daughter. This isn’t a trailer for the movie Commando. It’s a narration by Alex, a precocious 9-year-old Tanzanian boy who is--as 9-year-old boys tend to be with violent movies--obsessed. The three-minute YouTube video cuts back and forth between Alex and clips from the movie, as he narrates every key plot twist, complete with action moments and sound effects. The irreverent joy of a child’s imagination is inescapable. And that’s the point.
The modern era of the humanitarian crisis was born on American televisions in 1968. Within a few months, mass starvation began. In the subsequent three decades, humanitarian organizations became more and more adept at leveraging images of poverty, disease, and famine to access charitable donations.