#bidonville

Un bidonville en feu à Zahrani au Sud-Liban
Zahrani refinery fire a warning to officials on construction | News , Local News | THE DAILY STAR
http://dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2013/Jun-13/220220-zahrani-refinery-fire-a-warning-to-officials-on-construction.as

“The shantytown that was damaged by the fire began with just a few homes, but expanded over the years to include more than 100 homes,” he said.

mais qui est cette communauté « Dom » ?
#Liban
#bidonville
#incendie

squattercity: Istanbul at war with itself
http://squattercity.blogspot.fr/2013/06/istanbul-at-war-with-itself.html

“Across the city, the urban poor are being paid to leave their homes so that contractors — many with ties to government officials — can build gated communities.”

This factoid was buried in a New York Times article about the Taksim Square protests in Istanbul.

http://reclaimistanbul.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/map1small.jpg

#bidonvilles #logement #turquie #cartographie_radicale

#Afrique_du_Sud : le boom immobilier à Soweto - RFI
http://www.rfi.fr/emission/20130527-afrique-sud-le-boom-immobilier-soweto

Amusant, l’illustration de #bidonvilles qui accompagne ce reportage sur la classe moyenne noire :

http://www.rfi.fr/sites/filesrfi/imagecache/rfi_43_large/sites/images.rfi.fr/files/aef_image/800px-Soweto_township_0.jpg
Le «township» de Soweto.
(cc)Matt-80/Wikipédia

ne correspond absolument pas à ce qui est décrit dans le reportage

En Afrique du Sud, la classe moyenne noire (...) Solenn Honorine nous emmène à Protea Glen, une section de Soweto qui s’est développée sur les vingt dernières années

une simple recherche d’images sur google montre à quoi ressemble Protea Glen :
http://www.plusto.com/uploads/1900/Developments/Protea%20Glen1_1024x683.jpg
ou encore (projet architectural)
http://www.alsa.co.za/images/Project2_ProteaGlen_1.jpg

et sur la photo satellite on voit bien de petites maisons proprettes, avec jardin et murets :
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Protea+Glen,+Soweto,+Gauteng,+South+Africa&hl=en&ll=-26.272151,2

A Colorful Bolivian Bastion, Floating Above It All - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/world/americas/a-colorful-bolivian-bastion-floating-above-it-all.html?pagewanted=2

“Lots of people describe El Alto as a revolutionary city, but it’s the capital of capitalism,” said Mario Durán, an activist who works to improve Internet access.

Home to about 220,000 residents in 1985, the city swelled as poor farmers and out-of-work miners poured in from the countryside. It is now bigger than La Paz, with an estimated size of well over one million. The population is overwhelmingly Aymara, one of the country’s main indigenous groups, and the immigrants have brought with them a fierce work ethic and a laissez-faire zest for business.

The most prominent feature of El Alto is its vast open-air market, which fills mile upon mile of city streets every Sunday and Thursday.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/05/14/world/BOLIVIA-1/BOLIVIA-1-articleLarge.jpg

#bidonvilles #bolivie

SA police caught dead to rights | Opinion | Comment and Analysis | Mail & Guardian
http://mg.co.za/article/2013-04-26-00-sa-police-caught-dead-to-rights

Police ­Minister Nathi Mthethwa was ordered by the Durban High Court to pay R165 000 in damages to two activists from the shack-dweller movement Abahlali ­baseMjondolo and a member of the Kennedy Road informal settlement in Durban who had been injured by police gunfire.

#bidonvilles #afrique_du_sud #répression #logement

Life in Spain’s ’slum of shame’ - Europe - Al Jazeera English
http://www.aljazeera.com/video/europe/2013/04/201342982749100692.html

Illegal immigrants, Roma and those down on their luck live in dire conditions outside Madrid.

The illegal settlement of La Canada Real, outside the Spanish capital, has become known as “the slum of shame”.

Thousands of people live there without running water or drains. Electricity is hijacked, and simple houses are built amid rubble

Al Jazeera’s Rory Challands reports from the shantytown.

#bidonvilles #espagne

stealth of nations: System D Sunday
http://stealthofnations.blogspot.fr/2013/04/system-d-sunday.html

You might say this was System D Sunday in The New York Times.

First, Michael Kimmelman asks readers to learn from informal neighborhoods in Cairo.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/world/asia/unauthorized-colonies-dot-new-delhi-seeking-legal-status.html
 Kimmelman explains how the residents of Ard El Lewa, fed up with government inaction, built their own highway interchange and then invite the police to open an outpost there.

A few pages on, another article revels in the new self-built neighborhoods of New Delhi.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/world/asia/unauthorized-colonies-dot-new-delhi-seeking-legal-status.html

#bidonvilles #Égypte #Inde

#Google retire le mot « #favela » de ses cartes | Slate
http://www.slate.fr/lien/70641/google-favela-cartes

io de Janeiro, au Brésil, comptait 968 favelas en 2008. Ces bidonvilles sont connus pour être des foyers de la misère, de la violence et de nombreux trafics illégaux. D’après un article de l’Express publié en 2011, 120.000 personnes habitaient à Rocinha, la plus grande favela de Rio de Janeiro.

Selon The Telegraph, les #bidonvilles brésiliens étaient auparavant indiqués par le mot portugais favela sur les cartes de Google Maps. Mais sous la pression d’Eduardo Paes, le maire de Rio de Janeiro, et de l’entreprise de tourisme Riotur, la multinationale américaine aurait retiré la mention sur certaines de ses cartes, remplaçant le mot « favela » par « colline ».

colline, favela, c’est du #vocabulaire tout ça

• Bidonvilles lyonnais par Jean-Philippe Ksiazek
http://ksiazek.photoshelter.com/img/pixel.gif
http://ksiazek.photoshelter.com/gallery/Bidonvilles-lyonnais/G0000tx5qSKrU.b4/C0000D5SEIodpwv4
#photographie

A $5 Light For The Developing World With An Ingenious Fuel: Gravity | Co.Exist
http://www.fastcoexist.com/1681067/a-5-light-for-the-developing-world-with-an-ingenious-fuel-gravity

Many of the solutions out there are ingeniously solar powered. But GravityLight, an idea from two British designers, is something completely different. It gets its energy from gravity: A 22-pound bag of sand that gradually cranks a gear-train attached to a D.C. motor. One lift is enough for 30 minutes of light, and recharging is as simple as pushing the weight up again.

http://vimeo.com/53588182

#solaire #énergie #bidonvilles

For The Win » Cory Doctorow (2010)
http://craphound.com/ftw

#livre #roman pour jeunes adultes qui décrit la formation d’un mouvement syndical des "gold farmers" de #jeux_vidéo, associés aux "turcs mécaniques" d’amazon… #Chine, #Inde et #Californie, avec des morceaux de bravoure "in-game" et "out-game", notamment dans les #bidonvilles, les transports de #conteneurs etc.
http://jacketupload.macmillanusa.com/jackets/high_res/jpgs/9780765333841.jpg

un lecteur-fan a créé un wiki pour discuter du concept "#farming for development" : http://betterfarming.wikia.com/wiki/Better_Farming_Wiki

Un squat rom près de la Soie à Vaulx en Velin
http://www.flickr.com/photos/89581671@N06/8148403318

http://www.flickr.com/photos/89581671@N06/8148391658

http://www.flickr.com/photos/89581671@N06/8148373683

The Illegal City : Space, Law and Gender in Delhi | @rumor
http://rumor.hypotheses.org/2847

Séance exceptionnelle du séminaire Villes territoires mondialisations (Masters Ville et société et STADE) : nous avons le plaisir d’accueillir Ayona Datta, Senior Lecturer, School of Geography, Faculty of Environment, University of Leeds, pour une séance consacrée à son ouvrage The Illegal City : Space, Law and Gender in a Delhi squatter settlement (Ashgate, 2012) dont voici le résumé :

http://www.ashgate.com/images/9781409445548.jpg

#femmes #genre #bidonvilles #inde

3 Questions : Annette Kim of M.I.T. Sidewalk Lab
http://www.thepolisblog.org/2012/10/3-questions-annette-kim-of-mit-sidewalk.html

idewalk Lab, an interdisciplinary research group that uses cartography to generate knowledge about the public space between streets and buildings. Her research and teaching encompass property rights, critical cartography, market transition, urban housing, entrepreneurship, public space and municipal finance.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oX41OI4AHG8/UGXikapO-ZI/AAAAAAAAKRE/i4qhUtaSWQI/s1600/physical-survey-research-950x534.jpeg

mapping overlooked spaces and overlooked peoples, I see the next stage of SLAB moving to a different geography. There are an estimated 2 million people living underground in Beijing, in old bomb shelters and basements, because that’s the best space that they could afford in the city.

#cartographie_radicale #bidonvilles

The world of Nigeria’s floating slums: Heartbreaking photos reveal the struggle for villagers forced to live in shacks on the water | Mail Online
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2209520/The-world-Nigerias-floating-slums-Heartbreaking-photos-reveal-struggle-

for the thousands of poor people forced to live in Nigeria’s infamous Makoko slum in Lagos, this is their home

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/09/27/article-2209520-153C0C7A000005DC-793_964x622.jpg

#photographie #bidonvilles #nigéria

Switch on the lights | Groundup
http://groundup.org.za/content/switch-lights
http://groundup.org.za/sites/default/files/lightsWR.jpg

half the road deaths in the Western Cape are pedestrians. Lack of lighting as well as walkways across busy roads are likely among the causes of this.

#cartographie sociale et politique, #électricité #bidonvilles #afrique_du_sud

São Paulo Que la lumière nouvelle soit, par Anne Diatkine - Libération
http://www.liberation.fr/culture/2012/08/22/sao-paulo-que-la-lumiere-nouvelle-soit_841224

Le squat de neuf étages a gardé le système de caméras qui devaient exister lorsqu’il était un hôtel. « Normal, dit Val, qui nous accompagne. Il faut pouvoir surveiller la police, si elle s’apprête à expulser tout le monde. Ça ne se fait pas gentiment. » On est bien plus tranquille à attendre Neti dans le hall du squat, qui ressemble à une maison de quartier, avec ses petites annonces, que dehors. Un beau parquet en bois rose, un carrelage décoratif dans les sanitaires. Et, au premier, une épicerie où l’on trouve tout, tenue par l’un des « occupants ». De grandes consoles de jeux vidéo, des vélos pour enfants, des toboggans. Tout ce que les gens jettent et qui est récupérable.

joli reportage sur les #bidonvilles_verticaux du centre-ville de Sao Paulo
#squatts #Brésil

Water shortages driving growing thefts, conflicts in #Kenya - AlertNet
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/water-shortages-driving-growing-thefts-conflicts-in-kenya

NAIROBI (AlertNet) – As droughts become more frequent and water shortages worsen, Kenya is seeing an increase in water thefts and other water-related crime, police records show.

The most common crimes are theft, muggings and illegal disconnections of water pipes by thieves who collect and sell the water. Many of the crimes occur in urban slums, which lack sufficient piped water.

“Since 2003, we have made piped water available to at least half of the slum residents in the entire country, but we are faced with severe hurdles as populations continue to grow and demand for the commodity continues to increase,” said Peter Mangich, acting director of water services in the Ministry of Water

#eau #bidonvilles

#Haiti earthquake camps clearing out; problems now become hidden - latimes.com
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-haiti-housing-20120715,0,979717.story

The number of displaced Haitians has dropped from 1.5 million to just under 400,000, according to the International Organization of Migration, changing the look of a capital whose landscape was defined for many months by piles of rubble and fraying tent encampments.

But the progress is largely cosmetic. Although a few camps have benefited from aid programs, a grave underlying housing shortage means that the majority of those who left the camps have disappeared into the overcrowded homes of relatives or constructed precarious shacks in hillside slums.

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2012-07/71074914.jpg
#bidonvilles

#Design isn’t just about shiny objects | Ndifuna Ukwazi
http://nu.org.za/design-isnt-just-about-shiny-object

Cape Town has been awarded the right to host the World Design Capital 2014 (WDC2014) against stiff competition from cities across the planet, in large part because of the Cape Town Partnership’s bold and candid bid. The bid promised to use the year-long event to “deal with the vast imbalances that exist in our society”, by focusing on “community cohesion” and “infrastructure development”.

http://renu.nu.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/2011-12-13-17.04.15_thumb.jpg

#toilettes #inégalités #bidonvilles #afrique_du_sud

Mapping Toilets in a Mumbai Slum Yields Unexpected Results - NYTimes
http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/mapping-toilets-in-a-mumbai-slum-yields-unexpected-results

Mr. Potter and his colleagues decided to create a map of Cheeta Camp’s toilets (the interactive map can be found here). That meant two weeks tromping around the slum, figuring out where the toilets were located, who had put them up, how they functioned, and if they were even operational.

The students saw toilets as a way to delve into the inner workings of the community, to see what worked and what did not.  Of course, toilets are more than just a proxy. They are about as fundamental as you can get.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/07/20/world/asia/20-Toilets-Cheetah-IndiaI-slide-NF83/20-Toilets-Cheetah-IndiaI-slide-NF83-blog480.jpg

https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?vps=2&hl=en&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=213281544174043702623.0004b61

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/nnkv2wd541ht44x/toilettes-mumbai.png

#toilettes #inde #bidonville #cartographie #développement #santé

Groundup
http://groundup.org.za

un magazine réalisé par les habitants de Khayelitsha, la #township de la banlieue de Cape Town. C’est l’hiver et il pleut
http://groundup.org.za/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_full_size/public/09072012050.jpg

#afrique_du_sud #journalisme #bidonville

GroundUp: Taking stories from the streets to the sheets
http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-07-03-groundup-taking-stories-from-the-streets-to-the-sheets

The programme began in February, when 24 candidates took part in an intensive two-week training course. Of that group, the five most promising individuals were selected to make up the GroundUp team. They receive ongoing on-the-job training and support from UCT students from the Centre for Social Science Research, who also help out as subeditors. In April, GroundUp began to publish stories on their website.

“Our primary focus is news relating to social justice in the townships,” says Geffen. He points out that, though South Africa’s tabloids and community newspapers carry a great deal of township-based stories, they often lack focus on issues like health, gender and government performance.

#afrique_du_sud #médias #journalisme #bidonvilles #justice_sociale #formation #creative_commons #sida #police #transports #femmes #cdp
http://www.groundup.org.za

#INDE • A Bombay, des quartiers rasés dans l’intérêt des promoteurs | Courrier international
http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/2012/06/07/a-bombay-des-quartiers-rases-dans-l-interet-des-promoteurs

D’après les principes directeurs de l’Autorité de réhabilitation des bidonvilles, pour qu’un projet de réhabilitation puisse être lancé, au moins 70 % des habitants concernés doivent se regrouper et constituer une coopérative d’habitation. Mais les promoteurs ont falsifié toutes les autorisations nécessaires pour que la municipalité approuve leur projet, un phénomène courant dans cette ville. Par exemple, Eknath Koli de Koliwada, qui est décédé le 3 septembre 1997, a signé une lettre de consentement le 20 juillet 1999, deux ans après sa mort. De même, Lilabai Patil, une femme illettrée, semble avoir donné son accord par le biais d’une lettre en anglais.

#bidonville #pauvreté #business

Khayelitsha taxi owners: crime-fighters or vigilantes? | Groundup
http://groundup.org.za/content/khayelitsha-taxi-owners-crime-fighters-or-vigilantes

Taxi owners and members of the Congress for Democratic Taxi Association (CODETA) have recently joined in to help curb the escalating crime and gangsterism in Khayelitsha by patrolling areas and doing search and seizures.

#violence #police #criminalité #bidonvilles #afrique_du_sud