Date: March 6th, 2009

The ecology of a slum: Part 4, family flows

6 March, 2009 (11:14) | Ecosystems, History, London, Slums, Theory, United Kingdom | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 3 and the previous Part 1 and Part 2.]

[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 [...]