Date: April 13th, 2007

Slums are a wealth-extraction machine

13 April, 2007 (10:42) | Uncategorized |

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, [...]