#bidonvilles - Seenthis

A Colorful Bolivian Bastion, Floating Above It All - NYTimes.com

2013-05-19T21:43:33Z

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

2013-05-02T09:30:11Z

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

2013-04-29T21:43:25Z

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

2013-04-29T07:24:21Z

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

2013-04-10T20:14:05Z

#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

2013-02-27T01:22:26Z

• 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

2012-12-15T20:19:40Z

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)

2012-11-17T15:37:26Z

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_vidéos, 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

The Illegal City : Space, Law and Gender in Delhi | rumor

2012-10-18T15:38:10Z

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

2012-10-16T22:18:28Z

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…

2012-10-01T11:27:06Z

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

2012-09-27T16:41:18Z

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

2012-09-06T08:38:57Z

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

2012-08-20T17:26:28Z

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

2012-07-31T09:35:18Z

#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

2012-07-24T22:00:05Z

#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

GroundUp : Taking stories from the streets to the sheets

2012-07-05T12:40:27Z

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

Khayelitsha taxi owners : crime-fighters or vigilantes ? | Groundup

2012-05-10T20:12:45Z

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

Fresque_interactive : « 127 rue de la Garenne » | 127, rue de la Garenne | Accords d'Évian, 50 ans…

2012-04-20T19:06:20Z

#Fresque_interactive : « 127 rue de la Garenne » | 127, rue de la Garenne | Accords d'Évian, 50 ans après | Comprendre le monde | fr - ARTE
http://www.arte.tv/fr/Fresque-interactive---127-rue-de-la-Garenne/6456888.html

De 1950 à 1971, plusieurs milliers de personnes, pour l'essentiel venues d'Algérie et du Maroc, habitent le plus vaste et le plus insalubre des #bidonvilles de Nanterre, baptisé La Folie, du nom de la gare voisine. Sur fond de crise généralisée du logement, et bientôt de guerre coloniale en Algérie, les immigrés, venus travailler dans les secteurs du bâtiment et de l'automobile, sont les plus mal lotis. Aussi le nombre des baraques ne cesse-t-il de grossir, en dépit de conditions effroyables : un unique point d'eau pour huit à dix mille habitants, pas d'électricité ni de ramassage des ordures, et une seule adresse administrative pour tous : le 127, rue de la Garenne.

Digital Defenders : Tribal People Use GPS to Protect Their Lands by Fred Pearce : Yale Environment…

2012-03-30T16:21:01Z

Digital Defenders: Tribal People Use #GPS to Protect Their Lands by Fred Pearce: Yale Environment 360
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/from_africa_to_australia_tribal_peoples_use_gps_mapping_to_protect_lands/2506

From the rainforests of central Africa to the Australian outback, indigenous people armed with GPS devices are surveying their territories and producing maps they can use to protect them from logging and other outside development.

#cartographie #indigènes #droit_foncier #bidonvilles

Bangladesh : Lighting up on Solar Power - IPS ipsnews.net

2012-01-05T14:10:10Z

#Bangladesh: Lighting up on Solar Power - IPS ipsnews.net
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=106327

Nizamuddin Sheikh (...) thinks that the (24 dollars) he paid for a 20 watt solar set, that includes solar panels, battery, regulator and a set of compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) and LED lights, is the best investment he ever made.

#solaire #énergie #bidonvilles

Low-income South Africans enjoy getting into hot water - AlertNet

2012-01-05T13:43:07Z

Low-income South Africans enjoy getting into hot water - AlertNet
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/low-income-south-africans-enjoy-getting-into-hot-water

South Africa is responsible for 70 percent of Africa's carbon emissions. As the host of the two-week U.N. climate talks, which ended on Dec. 11, the country has been eager to demonstrate its commitment to low-carbon technology.
(...)
Since December 2010, more than 75,000 solar water heaters have been installed by the Gauteng-based Solar Academy of Subsaharan Africa (SASSA), a private company working for the government, in neighbourhoods whose residents cannot normally afford hot water.
(...)
SASSA, which distributes Tasol-brand solar water heaters, claims to be the first company in the world to have registered a programme to earn credits from mass solar water heating installation under the United Nations' Clean Development Mechanism.

http://www.trust.org/contentAsset/resize-image/369393fd-c3d2-4b51-a274-b507d8b2fbec/photowide/?w=460&h=318&vn=201112261848

#environnement #bidonvilles #eau #afrique_du_sud

Haïti après la catastrophe : camps, bidonvilles et crise du logement - Métropolitiques

2012-01-03T00:12:03Z

#Haïti après la catastrophe : camps, #bidonvilles et crise du #logement - Métropolitiques
►http://www.metropolitiques.eu/Haiti-apres-la-catastrophe-camps.html

Pour des raisons structurelles, la question des camps en Haïti est difficile à résoudre car elle n'est qu'un aspect d'un problème plus global, celui du logement, dont la pénurie est elle-même la conséquence d'une détresse économique ancienne et générale.

http://www.metropolitiques.eu/local/cache-vignettes/L500xH361/illu-L-Etang2a-ee78f.jpg

An Urbanizing India Faces Natural Disaster Risk - NYTimes.com

2011-12-20T16:45:07Z

An Urbanizing India Faces Natural Disaster Risk - NYTimes.com
http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/an-urbanizing-india-faces-natural-disaster-risk

The number of people exposed to natural disasters is expected to more than double to 1.5 billion by 2050, with 200 million of them in India, because of rapid urbanization and the extreme weather stemming from climate change, according to the World Bank.

#bidonvilles #climat

Crossing the chasm - Fatima Hassan « Writing Rights

2011-12-04T21:11:48Z

Crossing the chasm - Fatima Hassan « Writing Rights
http://writingrights.org/2011/11/21/crossing-the-chasm-what-can-ward-54-sea-point-and-other-wards-and-rpa

“What can and should rate payers do to bridge the divide in the City of Cape Town”

#bidonvilles

How a classic model of social commerce can teach the world how to save | Guardian Sustainable…

2011-12-04T21:09:58Z

How a classic model of social commerce can teach the world how to save | Guardian Sustainable Business | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/slumdwellers-savings-co-operative?newsfeed=true

The 2004 launch of CK Prahalad's landmark book, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid," kicked off a rush of exploration by companies seeking to sell products to the 2.5 billion people on the planet who make about two dollars a day, many of whom live in slums like Dharavi. Yet slumdwellers are producers at least as much as they are consumers. Dharavi hums with pottery-makers, garment-sewers, bakeries, plastic recyclers and hundreds of small-scale enterprises. Money flows into Dharavi to buy goods like Idli, small savory cakes made of lentils and rice

(bof) #système_d #bidonvilles

« Survivants des villes » : plongée dans les bidonvilles de la planète avec MSF et RFI | RFI

2011-11-04T08:22:33Z

« Survivants des villes » : plongée dans les #bidonvilles de la planète avec MSF et RFI | RFI
http://www.rfi.fr/general/20111102-survivants-villes-webdocumentaire-msf-bidonvilles-urban-survivors-0

#Webdocumentaire

prépare ton mouchoir

PeePoo : un sac à merde intelligent

2011-09-29T07:39:33Z

PeePoo : un sac à merde intelligent
http://www.peepoople.com/showpage.php?page=4_0

In the world today, more than 2.6 billion people have no access to basic sanitation. That means that 40 out of every 100 people lack even the most simple latrine to perform their needs. The lack of toilets affects both society and the individual through the contamination of fresh water and ground water. Human faeces contain viruses, bacteria, worms and parasites which kill and infect people. One child in the world dies every 15 seconds due to contaminated water.

Or on ne note aucun progrès sur cette question, pourtant prioritaire… un architecte suédois propose le PeePoo, un sac biodégradable contenant de l'#urée (aka carbamide). Il le fabrique à Kibera, un bidonville de Nairobi (#Kenya), dans un cadre économique « soutenable ».

http://www.peepoople.com/image/leftimages/peepoo-030.jpg
http://www.peepoople.com/pdf/brochure.pdf
http://www.peepoople.com/pdf/User.Instruction.Peepoo.Toilet.pdf
http://www.peepoople.com/pdf/GTZ_toilet%20bag.pdf

article du NYT :
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/health/27toilet.html

#merde #santé #cholera #bidonvilles #environnement

The slum, the place of the new festive urban ideal ?

2011-08-15T08:24:31Z

The slum, the place of the new festive urban ideal?
http://transit-city.blogspot.com/2011/08/slum-place-of-new-festive-urban-ideal.html

Que l'on refuse de présenter les #bidonvilles avec une iconographie misérabiliste, pourquoi pas ? - surtout si cela permet d'imaginer d'autres futures à ces zones traditionnellement délaissées. Mais que l'on essaie de nous présenter les slums et autres favelas comme le comble de nouvelle branchitude hype, j'ai juste un peu plus de mal. A moins d'imaginer que dans la lignée du succès grandissant du tourisme dans les bidonvilles, ceux-ci se « disneysent » peu à peu afin d'attirer toujours plus de visiteurs avec des activités toujours plus ludiques et hors normes, un peu comme le font déjà les écoles de samba à Rio. Dans des #villes de plus en plus aseptisées et surveillées, ces quartiers seraient les dernières vraies enclaves de #liberté. Les quartiers chauds et de débauche ont toujours fait partie des logiques de développement urbain.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kKoWicQ7ymg/TkZOydMCkBI/AAAAAAAAMLE/spf8Zs-50fA/s400/DharaviBeach-JoseAbazolo.jpg
via @supergeante

[J'aime] JR. Inside Out. Centre Pompidou. Transformer des messages identitaires en proposition…

2011-06-15T08:42:00Z

[J'aime] JR. Inside Out. Centre Pompidou. Transformer des messages identitaires en proposition artistique.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5MEC5MPjvg #artivism #arturbain #photography