Community adaptation strategies in Nairobi informal settlements: Lessons from Korogocho, Nairobi-Kenya
▻https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsc.2022.932046
Informal settlements are often the hotspots of vulnerability as evidenced by the recurrent environmental and climate-related shocks and stressors. Despite this exposure and susceptibility, their role in spearheading disaster risk preparedness and response is often overlooked. This exploratory research profiles four local community initiatives for climate mitigation and adaptation within Korogocho informal settlement in Kenya. Findings from 10 purposefully sampled key informants and 30 stratified sampled residents across nine villages within the informal settlement demonstrated the impact of locally led initiatives in creating awareness and developing the absorptive, adaptive and transformative capacity of communities for climate resilience. The research findings elaborate on the (...)
]]>Les bidonvilles, un livre de Thierry Paquot
Thierry Paquot a rédigé un livre, bienvenu et très important, sur les bidonvilles, dans la collection Repères des Editions La Découverte. Il s’intéresse à la question majeure de l’urbanisation dans le monde actuel. Les bidonvilles sont la forme majeure de l’urbanisation aujourd’hui. Un milliard de bidonvillois en 2005, ils seront deux milliards en 2030 et seraient probablement trois milliards en 2050, soit près de 30% de la population mondiale.
Le bidonville, le slum, est un ensemble d’habitations disparates, bricolées, illégalement installées sur un terrain squatté, ne disposant d’aucun confort, d’aucun équipement de base que sont les toilettes, l’eau l’électricité, un espace sans voirie, sans adresse, sans ramassage des ordures, sans éclairage public, sans desserte d’un quelconque transport collectif. Le bidonville naît de l’occupation illégale d’une terre par une population démunie.
▻https://entreleslignesentrelesmots.wordpress.com/2022/08/26/les-bidonvilles-un-livre-de-thierry-paquot
]]>MapLab: Putting Slums on the Map - Bloomberg
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-07-28/maplab-putting-slums-on-the-map
The United Nations estimates that more than 1 billion people live in slums around the world. Yet the geography of slum living has long been poorly defined. From the favelas of Brazil to shack dwellings outside of Paris, these areas are depicted on official maps as empty polygons labeled “informal zones” or “areas of development” — if they’re even labeled at all, reports Tony Frangie Mawad in CityLab this week. Here’s more from Tony on why that matters — to the world and to him personally — and how that’s changing:
]]> Examine the forgotten history of how our federal, state and local governments unconstitutionally segregated every major metropolitan area in America through law and policy.
▻https://vimeo.com/328684375
#ressources_pédagogiques #vidéo #film
#USA #Etats-Unis #Afro-américains #Ferguson #ségrégation_raciale #ségrégation #géographie_urbaine #urban_matter #politiques_racistes #logement_social #logement #United_State_housing_authority #Austin #ghetto #emancipation_park #FHA #Levittown #zonage_racial #Redline #cartographie #visualisation #murs_intra-urbains #mur_intra-urbain #inégalités #slums #bidonville #destruction #démolition #Sugar_Hill #Los_Angeles #Harvey_Clark #richesse #pauvreté #paupérisation #discriminations #fair_housing_act #mobilité_sociale #immobilité_sociale #constitutionnalité #constitution #responsabilité
The Ethics of Photographing Slums
All these people and experiences have taught me how to shoot good pictures. But they did not tell me one thing: how do I deal with my position as a photographer? Photography can be just aesthetic. Portraits, fashion, and landscapes. People join for a project and then walk away. Or you hike up a mountain at the right time and shoot. That is one thing. But it is a different thing to take pictures of the life of humans. Especially in travel photography.
Les Cafés Géo » Que peut apprendre l’Inde à la France en matière de gestion des bidonvilles ?
▻http://cafe-geo.net/que-peut-apprendre-l-inde-a-la-france-en-matiere-de-gestion-des-bidonville
Assurément la situation française en matière de bidonvilles diffère beaucoup de l’Inde, où un citadin sur cinq vit en habitat précaire – et presque la moitié des habitants de Bombay. Mais les polémiques sur la destruction des campements de la Chapelle ou d’autres bidonvilles d’Ile-de-France, les expulsions de « la jungle » de Calais, ne sont pas sans évoquer les processus encore dominants en Inde et les outils d’une politique urbaine que New Delhi, et les gouvernements des 29 Etats fédérés de l’Union indienne, continuent de pratiquer.
]]>Mapping the slums | Erica Hagen | TEDxGateway - YouTube
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVkyBf_TM9s
Mapping the slums | Erica Hagen | TEDxGateway
Ajoutée le 10 mars 2015
In her talk Erica Hagen describes how slums around the world are absent from maps online and on paper. She works towards empowering communities through open data, open mapping, citizen media and participatory processes.
Erica is co-founder of Map Kibera, which created the first free and open map of the Kibera slum in Nairobi in 2009. Map Kibera has evolved to include Voice of Kibera, a website that maps stories citizen reporters; the online video initiative Kibera News Network; and more. She is also director of GroundTruth Initiative, in Washington, DC, using digital technologies, citizen media and mapping for greater citizen voice and impact around the world.
Websites:
www.mapkibera.org
www.groundtruth.in
Twitter: @ricaji
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ▻http://ted.com/tedx
]]>#Slumscapes. How residents of the world’s five biggest #slums are shaping their futures
As the United Nations prepares a new 20-year plan to cope with the challenges of booming urbanization, residents of the world’s five biggest slums are battling to carve out a place in the cities of the future.
#bidonvilles #pauvreté #inégalités #Kibera #Nairobi #Kenya #cartographie #photographie #visualisation #Dharavi #Mumbai #Inde #Khayelitsha #Cape_Town #Afrique_du_Sud #toilettes #hygiène #Pakistan #Orangi_Town #Karachi #Ciudad_Neza #Mexico_City #villes #urbanisme #Mexique #géographie_urbaine
cc @fil @franz42 @reka @albertocampiphoto
My people them dey stay for poor surroundings*
▻http://africasacountry.com/2016/10/my-people-them-dey-stay-for-poor-surroundings
In 2012, the star architect Kunlé Adeyemi unveiled his “floating school” in Makoko, one of more than 100 #Slums in #Lagos, #Nigeria’s commercial capital. Most of Makoko’s residents, who are estimated between 40,000 and 300,000, live in makeshift structures built on stilts on lagoon water. The floating school, built by local residents, used wooden offcuts […]
]]>In Bolivia, “Climate Refugees” Forced Into Urban Shantytowns
Climate change is drying up the Earth and making Bolivians search for new livelihoods in Latin America’s poorest country.
▻http://www.worldcrunch.com/world-affairs/-in-bolivia-climate-refugees-forced-into-urban-shantytowns-/c1s21618
#Bolivie #réfugiés_climatiques #climat #asile #migrations #réfugiés
cc @louca
Le #bidonville est l’avenir de la #ville
▻https://reporterre.net/Le-bidonville-est-l-avenir-de-la-ville
Il voit le « bidonvillage » comme un « atelier de l’avenir » dans un monde glissant vers la #pauvreté généralisée. Dans son optique, face à l’épuisement programmé de nos stocks de #ressources, demain, nous serons tous pauvres, citadins riches d’aujourd’hui compris. Et, face aux pénuries à venir, Yona Friedman avance que les #mégalopoles, fragiles, totalement dépendantes de l’extérieur et trop grandes pour pouvoir réagir aux chocs de manière efficace, offrent peu de chances de survie. Il propose de transformer les villes en « villages urbains », autosuffisants et politiquement autonomes, capables de s’adapter rapidement à des situations changeantes, à l’image du « bidonvillage ».
C’est également l’avenir que je vois se dessiner.
J’ai perdu la référence de l’article qui parle des nouvelles architectures et quartiers invisibilisés des riches : là aussi, la même analyse a été faite, la déferlante de la pauvreté comme une marabunta avec la nécessité nouvelle pour les riches de se fondre dans le paysage.
Solve the housing crisis with self-build cities not slums - FT.com
▻http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7e05a138-41d4-11e5-b98b-87c7270955cf.html#axzz3izsb09FK
Le plus intéressant n’est peut être pas ce plaidoyer, qui dans le détail ne me paraît pas très convaincant, voire est très naïf, mais son existence même qui indique une aspiration à un changement des rapports de force dans nos villes...
Slums fail when landlords exploit vulnerable tenants with nowhere else to go, with people forced through economic necessity into crowded, dangerous accommodation. They are a symptom of powerlessness.
If those excluded from the market are, on the other hand, allowed the freedom to build their own less formal districts, will they be any worse than the anonymous suburbs or towering, empty investment vehicles that are officially sanctioned?
It is no substitute for a serious social housing programme; but, if a government fails to house its people or cultivate a functioning market, perhaps those who want to — and who are able to — should be allowed to try for themselves.
]]>Don’t forget ethics when mapping uncharted slums - SciDev.Net
▻http://www.scidev.net/global/health/scidev-net-at-large/ethics-mapping-uncharted-slums.html
In 1854, physician John Snow identified the main source of a cholera epidemic in London using a map, and with it established the field of epidemiology. In a lecture theatre — fittingly named after Snow — at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, an initiative was launched earlier this month (7 November) to generate maps to help trace disease in uncharted areas.
The Missing Maps Project, founded by a consortium including Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), aims to develop basic maps of slums and other unmapped areas in the developing world to reveal infrastructure gaps and the source of diseases. The idea is to do this using information crowdsourced from local people.
]]>The Slum - Al Jazeera English
►http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/the-slum
Toute une série de reportages et de documentaires sur les bidonvilles dans le monde. Spécialement pour @fil
The UN predicts that by 2050, one in three people will live in a slum. But what determines where you live and how does your environment shape your health, hopes and prospects?
In a special season of coverage, Al Jazeera explores our relationships with the places we call home.
The six-part documentary series The Slum introduces the residents of Tondo - the most densely populated and least developed part of Manila - as they strive for success against the odds.
My Home goes inside some of the world’s most impoverished neighbourhoods to examine the challenges posed by urbanisation.
And in Where I Live, the Al Jazeera Magazine meets township residents challenging perceptions, nomads planting roots and migrants going in search of a place to call home.
Les bidonvilles forment-ils une planète à part ? | Hic Salta – Communisation
▻http://www.hicsalta-communisation.com/textes/les-bidonvilles-forment-ils-une-planete-a-part#_ftn4
L’article qui suit est essentiellement une critique du livre de Mike Davis Le Pire des Mondes Possibles, consacré aux bidonvilles. Ce qui désespère Mike Davis et consorts, c’est de ne pas retrouver dans les bidonvilles un prolétariat qui soit conforme à l’image qu’ils en veulent : une masse salariée de façon formelle, consciente et organisée en partis et syndicats. C’est comme cela qu’il faut comprendre leurs lamentations sur la disparition du travail formel, prédominant au cours des trente glorieuses, de même que sur celle de Marx (remplacé par Mahomet !). Il s’agit au contraire de montrer que, loin d’être des laissés pour compte qu’il faudra tirer de leur merde, les bidonvilliens font pleinement partie de la classe qui sera appelée à communiser la société.
]]>Landfillharmonica - the recycled orchestra
Chávez got to know these kids and their families over 5 years ago while working on a waste recycling project at the landfill of Cateura. In this area more than 40% of children don’t finish school because their parents need them to work. Being an environmental engineer but with a musical background, one day he decided to help the children by teaching them music lessons. The idea was simply to keep the kids from playing in the landfill.
“At first it was very difficult because we had no place to rehearse and we had to teach in the same place where the parents were working in the trash,” said Chávez. “The children knew nothing about music and it was very difficult to contact parents because many of them do not live with their children.”
Eventually, parents began to see that playing music was keeping their kids out of trouble, some even reclaiming children they had previously abandoned.
Soon there were more children wanting lessons than there were instruments, so Chávez and Nicolas “Cola” one of the garbage pickers experimented with making some out of recycled materials from the landfill. String and wind instruments are made with oil tin cans, forks, bottle caps, and whatever is around. “Eventually the recycled instruments were improved, and in many cases, they now sound better than the wooden Made In China instruments the more able children play on.”
The recycled instruments serve another, more practical purpose: The kids can safely carry them. “For many children, it was impossible to give them a violin to take home because they had nowhere to keep it and their parents were afraid they would be robbed or the instrument would be sold to buy drugs.”
The Orchestra had remained unheard of for many years. The launching of the Landfill harmonic short teaser on the Internet triggered a social media events that changed this. “More things have happened in the last 7 months, than in the last 7 years on our lives”. Since then, the Orchestra has traveled to many places and soon, as we are getting close to finishing our movie, the plans are to align the release, festival and premieres of the film with a tour of the Orchestra in the U.S., Europe and other countries as well.
The Orchestra has grown from just a few musicians to over 35. Their recent fame have peak the interest of the families and children of the community in such way, that many children are now enrolling for music classes. The music school of Cateura, does not have their own building yet, but teaches music and how to build recycled instruments to more than 200 kids of the landfill.
▻http://www.landfillharmonicmovie.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/THE-ORCHESTRA-MAIN-PIC-SMALL.jpg
▻http://www.upworthy.com/watch-the-first-54-seconds-that-s-all-i-ask-you-ll-be-hooked-after-that-i-
►http://www.landfillharmonicmovie.com
#musique #recyclage #Venezuela #orchestre #enfants #landfill #instruments_de_musique_recyclés #slums #bidonville
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