Squattercity. Mini documentaries on the informal city. Business | The slum solution to housing crisis. BBC correspondents from around the world are taking the pulse of the world economy. This week they are focusing on the state of the property market. Without space to accommodate new housing in their intricate corridors and dirt roads, the shanty towns of Buenos Aires have grown upwards. Where a shack of bricks and corrugated iron once stood, within weeks an equally precarious structure appears - but this time over two levels. The transformation of the landscape in the slums is reflected in government statistics. The population in the so-called "emergency villages" of the Argentine capital has grown by 25% in the last two years, now housing some 200,000 people.
That is equivalent to almost 7% of the inhabitants of the city, or the arrival of 11 families per day to the 14 slums and at least 40 settlements within Buenos Aires's perimeter. Home ownership Along with his wife and three children, he ended his pilgrimage for home ownership here. No space "We built little by little. 'Urbanisation' Favela Skyscraper in Rocinha, Brazil. Rocinha, Brazil, is one of the world’s largest slums with a population over 150,000 people. It is located in the southern part of Rio de Janeiro; a hillside the overlooks the city and the ocean. In the 1930’s the Rocinha community emerged from the division of large farm fields and in the 1940’s and 1950’s it was the epicenter of illegal settlements with lack of regulation.
The result is an area with a strong community bonds but without any infrastructure or security. One of the most interesting characteristics of the “favelas” is the non-existent boundaries between public and private space. The unorganized construction creates residual spaces that are use by the residents for all kinds of community activities. The new structures will be 1600 feet tall and will provide affordable housing to thousands of new residents. Designed by: Gustavo Utrabo, Juliano Monteiro, Pedro Duschenes and Thiago Valério Zandona -> EVOLO SKYSCRAPERS 2 - Limited Edition Book.
Déficit habitacional de São Paulo chega a 1,5 milhões « Outra Política. Favela Heliópolis - São Paulo Um quarto dos paulistanos vive em favelas ou loteamentos irregulares; um dos desafio é urbanizar essas áreas Adriana Carranca, O Estado de S.Paulo, 4 de agosto de 2008 Um em cada quatro paulistanos vive em uma das 1.565 favelas ou dos 1.128 loteamentos irregulares da cidade. São 3,2 milhões de pessoas – mais do que a população de Salvador (BA), terceira maior cidade do País. Juntos, ocupam 123 quilômetros quadrados – quase 10% do Município – com precária infra-estrutura urbana e à espera de regularização.
Nessas áreas, faltam equipamentos e serviços públicos básicos como saneamento, iluminação, ruas asfaltadas, calçadas, locais para esportes, lazer e cultura, muitas vezes, transporte. Nesse imenso emaranhado de casas e barracos, pelo menos 36,5 km² estão sobre partes de áreas de mananciais que, por lei, não podem ser urbanizadas. É com esse complicado diagnóstico que o prefeito terá de lidar. A boa notícia é que não há, na história da cidade, momento melhor. Cidadeinformal » Photos. Favelas Building, Brazil, Belo Horizonte Building, Architect, Favelas Belo Horizonte. Favelas Building, Brazil Building, Architect, Project, News, Design, Property, Image Brazilian Favelas Building – Belo Horizonte : Architecture Information 11 Mar 2010 Favelas Belo Horizonte Current work by Horizontes Arquitetura with Fernando Luiz Lara in the favelas of Brazil Building for the Favelas : news from Brazil The first decade of the 21st century in Brazil has been marked by continuous economic growth and increased social expenditure that has slowly but steadily diminished the inequality, specially during president Lula’s second term in office (2007-2010).
Campo do Cascalho – proposed views: Why the favelas seem so scary? In his apocalyptical Planet of Slums Mike Davis starts in the very first page with the assertion that the "earth has urbanized even faster than originally predicted by the Club of Rome in its notoriously Malthusian 1972 report". Pedreira Prado Lopes – proposed views: However, a new generation of Brazilian architects is challenging those boundaries.
Map Data Map. Improving Quality of Life in Sprawling Slums. Ed note: We want to welcome our newest contributor to these pages. Penelope is a Franco-American national living in Toronto. She has a BA from Tufts University (go Jumbos!) And an MA in International Affairs from Sciences-Po. Her interests lie primarily at the intersection of international affairs, economic development and foreign policy, with a particular focus on African issues and post-conflict reconstruction. She has worked for the Clinton Foundation and is co-founder of The Niapele Project, an NGO focused on improving the livelihoods of vulnerable children through grassroots initiatives in West Africa.
Without further ado… A striking BBC news headline piqued my interest the other day: “UN says 227m people escaped slums in past decade”. What’s particularly interesting is that the UN is touting this number as an achievement of one of the Millennium Development Goals, MDG 7d: “Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020”. Cities: Home | Design with the Other 90% {{..networkedcultures..} Helmut Batista. Helmut Batista was born in 1964 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the director of the non-profit contemporary art space CAPACETE at the Escola de Cinema e Audiovisual Darcy Ribeiro in downtown Rio de Janeiro.
Between 1985 and 1997 he worked as an artist, set designer and camera assistant in Paris, Vienna and Milan. Batista has exhibited worldwide and given talks at all kinds of cultural institutions. His books include Public Intervention (1991), The Interventionist (1994) and You Do Not Need to Pay, But You Have to Consume It (1997).
PM/HM: As an artist and curator who has been living and working in Rio de Janeiro for many years, how do you feel about the current interest in Brazilian favelas in terms of social and political self-organisation? Helmut Batista: For me the favelas are just another part of the city, like Copacabana Beach. But unfortunately they are not in fact really a part of it. The favela “Rio das Pedras” is one of the best examples of self-organisation. Regeneration of the Favela de Rocinha Slum / Jan Kudlicka. The research presented here was conducted by Jan Kudlicka, who spent the last year studying slum dwellings, known as “favelas,” in Brazil.
The breadth of the research delves into the living conditions that these urban and suburban developments create and the feasible ways in which their problems can be addressed through the regeneration of the spaces. Jan Kudlicka studied the “little farm” of Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro, which is one of the largest slums in the city. To find out more about the research click through after the break. Rocinha began to develop after the 1930′s when people began to migrate from the rural areas of Brazil to areas just outside Rio de Janeiro with the prospect of benefiting from the development of the urban center. The favelas developed on the hillside with any means available creating hazardous living conditions with crowding and inadequate ventilation, natural light and sewage treatment. On the scale of Rocinha as a whole, the street is the civic life. Dharavi: globalization and spontaneously mixed uses. [The following piece, on the surprising ways that the residents of the Mumbai settlement of Dharavi have integrated that urban agglomeration into global economic networks, and the value of the unique spatial formatting that both enables and results from that integration, is the second thoroughly-footnoted guest post we've run from Peter Nunns.
(The first was "fecal politics".) After being on hiatus during the time when we published that first post, Peter is blogging again at Read after Burning.] “The slum-dwellers,” he adds, “are experts at live-work space design. They spontaneously do mixed-use! We just have to learn from them.” [1]When homes are also considered places of work – either unpaid housework or paid industrial homework – then the industrial geography of the city assumes new meanings. [2] 1 Mason 2011 2 Sassen 2001: 261 3 Patel and Arputham 2007, Fernando 2009 Dharavi has been described as “Asia’s largest slum”. 5 Nijman 2009 6 Grant and Nijman 2003: 474 7 Patel 2010 References. Africa's greatest hotel now Mozambique squat.
Subtopia: Squatter Imaginaries. One of the most intriguing facets of Dionisio Gonzalez's photographic constructions is that they immediately question the viewer's knowledge of what a "slum" actually looks like and what are the political forces that shape slums. To that end, he asks us if "slum" is even an appropriate term at all. Viewers less familiar with these spaces may not detect the careful nuances of his work and instead simply digest these as neither appropriate nor inappropriate images of global poverty, but rather as ones that are simply real. In my opinion, what is most important about any work of art is the actual effect it will have on culture and public perception. In this case, we are forced to ask what messages about squatter communities are being transmitted through these images? How are we supposed to view them in the first place? [Image: Real Parque Favela's Cingapuras (via).]
[Image: The Morrinho Project, from the LA Times, From the streets of Brazil, 2007, photo by Wania Corredo.] Santiago de Chile « We could wait no longer on shanty towns. Alice Springs' camps of despair are crying out for Government action. LAST night in Hoppy's Camp, a town camp on the outskirts of Alice Springs, little children were trying to sleep in houses crammed with as many as 16 other people. Chances are they were kept awake by the noise of adults drinking and shouting. Other children might have slept on the dry bed of the Todd River, taking their chances with packs of feral dogs rather than the violence that pervades the town camps.
This is not a refugee camp or a war zone. This is 21st century Australia. It is the confronting day-to-day reality of life in the Alice Springs town camps. People live in houses and tin sheds, often with nowhere to cook, no running water and no reliable power supply. This is everyday life for about 1900 people crammed into 188 houses and 72 tin sheds. Advertisement Combine the acute overcrowding and substandard housing with alcohol abuse, despair and hopelessness and the consequences are desperate. Cañada Real (Madrid) La Cañada Real es como se conoce a la sucesión de asentamientos ilegales que se produce en un tramo de la Cañada Real Galiana a su paso por Madrid. Las Cañadas Reales son vías pecuarias reservadas al tránsito de ganado entre diferentes puntos de España para la transhumancia creadas en la edad moderna. Son vías propiedad del Estado en las que está terminantemente prohibido construir por ley. Durante los años 60 y 70 una nueva modificación de la ley que regula el uso de las Cañadas Reales permitió que a lo largo de su trazado se establecieran huertas y se construyeran pequeñas casas para el almacenamiento de aperos de labranza y para el descanso de los pastores transhumantes.
En un primer momento no supuso mayor inconveniente ya que el número de construcciones era bajo. El actual poblado de la Cañada Real en Madrid es una sucesión de construcciones ilegales y chabolas a lo largo de 15 kilómetros de recorrido. Empieza en la A-3 y llega hasta el término municipal de Getafe. Repositioning Practice: Teddy Cruz | Humanitarian Design | Features. Youths upgrade Kibera slum infrastructure as part of UN-HABITAT initiative | Cities Alliance.
UN-HABITAT has announced a fresh resolve to tackle deteriorating living conditions in cities by harnessing the energy of the youth, Abubakar Ibrahim reported in a March 31 article on AllAfrica.com. With urban populations growing rapidly as a result of shrinking resources and climate change, living conditions in cities around the world are deteriorating. In effort to address the problem, 80 youths have been trained on urban shelter and infrastructure development under UN-HABITAT’s commitment to “promoting affordable housing finance systems in an urbanizing world in the face of global financial crises and climate change” over the next two years. The youths’ skills were put to use at the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. With $100,000 in funding from UN Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon, they upgraded infrastructure in the slum using affordable materials. 2007 Student Awards. This project offers a contemporary approach to upgrading informal settlements based on low impact landscape infrastructural solutions.
Architecture, urban planning, and engineering are the traditional professions that have addressed issues of informal urbanization. However, this project demonstrates the role that landscape architecture can play in not only addressing public health and environmental issues but also in functioning as a catalyst for macro and micro enterprises. Definition:Informal settlements are lands that are settled by people or organizations that do not have legal claim or title to the land and are developed without permission from any government agency.
Informal settlements often lack basic infrastructure and urban services like roads, drainage and waste collection. These settlements are vulnerable to environmental disasters, social unrest, and disease due to their physical, social, and psychological marginalization. The Social Urbanizer: Porto Alegre's Land Policy Experiment. Landscape Architecture Group - Wageningen UR - Wageningen University. Urban landscapes - neal oshima. Manila 01 - Start of morning commute, Magallanes Interchange, Makati City. Manila 02 - Bankal settlement, since demolished, Makati City. Manila 03 - Philippine National Railroad Compound, Metro Manila. Next page These photographs were made over the past five years as part of a survey of the architecture of informal settlements in Metro Manila.
Neal Oshima October 2006. Global Studio. 361 Degree 2010 | aecworldxp. The Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centers (SPARC) is one of the largest Indian NGOs working on housing and infrastructure issues for the urban poor. In 1984, when SPARC was formed, it began working with the most vulnerable and invisible of Mumbai's urban poorthe pavement dwellers. SPARC's philosophy is that if we can develop solutions that work for the poorest and most marginalised in the city, then these solutions can be scaled up to work for other groups of the urban poor across the country and internationally. Since 1986, SPARC has been working in partnership with two community-based organisations the National Slum Dwellers Federation and Mahila Milan.
Together, they are known as the Alliance. Today, the Alliance works in about 70 cities in the country and has networks in about 20 countries internationally. The National Slum Dwellers Federation (NSDF): Uraban Design Research Institute (UDRI) Slum Dwellers International (SDI) Jaigaon. Vila Cruzeiro. Oficina Informal | Rec-comunidad-audiovisual-lr.jpg (JPEG Image, 1100×399 pixels) Alejandro Aravena :: ELEMENTAL. ELEMENTAL.
Kim Dovey Informal Settlements.