ESS102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Manuel Castells, Andre Gunder Frank, Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Document Summary
Housing, squatter and resettlement policies have shown anti-poor bias and pro-powerful preferential treatment . Links it to the liberalization of the indian economy. Increasing private investment in housing, decreasing public investment and infrastructure. Increased poverty comes as a result of slum inhabitants being moved outside of urban areas, making it more difficult to find work. Urbanization trend: large scale growth massive urbanization trend after 1800. By 2030, 2/3 of the world"s population will be in urban areas. The world population of urban people both migrating and being born eclipse those born in rural areas. Urbanization trend: urban growth in the urban south. Less developed parts of the world experience unprecedented urban growth. A significantly greater number of the world"s city dwellers will live in less developed regions. The growing scale of cities and the growing number of cities. Origins of mega cities go back 200 yrs. In the industrial reveloution north america and europe heavily urbanize.
