GEOG 3050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Impact Zone
10 Apr 2013
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Overcrowding, poor/informal housing, inadequate access to safe water& sanitation, insecurity of tenure (purely physical & legal characteristics, ignores social dimensions) usually economic and social marginality. 6% city popn in developed countries, 78. 2% in least-developed countries (2/3 global urban popn), urbanites in. Fastest growing slums in russia (dependent on a single now-closed industry) Highest slum popns ethiopia 99. 4%, chad, afghanistan, nepal. Not all urban poor live in slums and not all slum dwellers are poor some of poor live just outside the slums. Megaslums when shanty-towns and squatter communities merge in continuous informal housing & poverty, usually on the urban periphery. Some slums have long histories, but most have grown up since the 1960s. Urban poor have to solve issue of optimizing housing cost, tenure security, quality of shelter, journey to work, and personal safety (often being near job more important than a roof, others free land worth bad commutes)
