Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
[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 [...]
A while back, I read Steven Johnson’s excellent The Ghost Map, which chronicles the Victorian health reformers’ crusades to improve the public health, and the dogged empiricist Dr. John Snow, who deduced that cholera was waterborne, and by the tiniest of actions – removing the handle from the Broad Street Pump – stopped London’s most [...]
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