Date: February 25th, 2009

The ecology of a slum: Part 2, outflows

25 February, 2009 (11:04) | Ecosystems, History, London, Slums, Theory, United Kingdom | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
 
[Editorial justification for the tour: If we want to improve slums, we have to see them as ecosystems – spontaneous self-generated communities, self-organized, economically rational, economically efficient, adaptive and robust.  We may not like the slums (like Dharavi in Mumbai, Kibera in Nairobi, or Sao Paulo's favelas) we may wish them [...]