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TED talks,Stewart Brand,slums,squatters,urban,sprawl,poverty Why Squatter Cities Are A Good ThingWhy Squatter Cities Are A Good Thingtags:"Rural villages worldwide are being deserted, as billions of people flock to cities to live in teeming squatter camps and slums. Stewart Brand says this is a good thing. Why? It’ll take you 3 minutes to find out." -TED
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Did not like that at all.
Really, that was a very poor presentation which told me pretty much nothing, explained nothing, delivered it in a poorly constructed way.
I think the problem is that it was limited to 3 minutes. As you can see, he has to run through some of those slides without enough time to even read what's on them.
The upshot of what he's saying is that the squatter cities are a big economic engine. And while those of us used to living in far better conditions view them as centers of crushing poverty and disease, the simple fact is, virtually everyone living in them are in fact better off than they were living in a remote rural village.
They are creating their own economy, their own infrastructure, their own education systems, etc., with essentially no help from governments or NGOs. And the fact that more than 15% of the world's population live in them (soon to be > 40%) means we should be paying a lot of attention to them.
>> ^MaxWilder:
I could be wrong, but my common sense is screaming "bullshit!"
I'm guessing that's because your common sense is derived from living in the highly developed West. I'm not saying that it's invalid, just that it's a completely different perspective than that of the people living in squatter cities.
The poor fucks condemned to live in these toilets aren't creating anything except more wretched, miserable, desperate, squalor-dwellers. This isn't where some new utopia will emerge, this is where the next religious nut-job will start his jihad.
Yes we should be paying a lot of attention to them, trying to ELIMINATE them and replace them with humane conditions and genuine opportunities.
edit: apostrophe fail
"I think the problem is that it was limited to 3 minutes."
That has nothing to do with it, it was poor, not cramped.
But, yeah. This could have been at least a half an hour's worth of information.