Skrevet af BRIDGER
Metropolis Nonformal
addresses the modern phenomenon of self-built cities, often in slum
areas, that will house the next several billion humans on Earth
Almost one billion people live in conditions that UN-Habitat classifies
as slum households, out of almost four billion people who live in
cities today. If the UN numbers hold true, approximately two and a half
billion urban dwellers will be added by 2050 with a total estimated
urban population of six-plus billion. We have come to understand that
the majority of this increased urbanisation will not result in perfect
shining cities set in pastoral landscapes. Rather it is much to the
contrary; if UN-Habitat predictions turn out to be correct, over two
thirds of the new urban population, some two billion, may fall under
UN-Habitat's category of a slum household, deprived of at least one out
of five basic living conditions. Many of what UN-Habitat considers slum
households are part of self-built neighbourhoods, the result of informal
occupation and construction. If two-thirds of our new urbanisation will
be largely the result of people building their own homes and
neighbourhoods outside of formal planning and processes, and close to
one billion people live in these urban situations now this is not a
fringe phenomenon of urbanisation. It is mainstream urbanisation,
quickly becoming the majority - and thus the chosen title for this
collection is Metropolis Nonformal.
