Slums are a wealth-extraction machine
Even if a slum is eradicated, it almost always returns. Why?
Robert Mugabe’s solution: slow genocide by bulldozer
The answer lies not in architecture, not in demography, not in law, but in fundamental economics. Yet because we are vision-oriented creatures, we imagine things first and foremost by what we see:
Structure not apparent, but essential
So for a slum, […]