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E - Slum Settlements X (Makoko, Lagos, Nigeria (Trying to find solutions…
E - Slum Settlements X
Makoko, Lagos, Nigeria
in Africa: in 2050
In Africa: in 2050 56% of the population will live in cities (compared to 40% in 2014 and 31% in 1990)
Trying to find solutions
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Project for floating schools unfortunately not accepted by the local population because it's going away from tradition
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Makoko is a floating slum in the fast growing megacity of Lagos, Nigeria housing approx 250 000 people.
Growing disparities
Eko Atlantic Project: will create "climate apartheid" because the rich will be protected from flooding by a wall, and Makoko will be left to the elements.
Paraisópolis in São Paulo, Brazil
Favela neighborhood in the center of São Paulo, bordering with a very rich + luxurious gated community.
In Brazil, favelas are often results of social + economic segregation: even if the rich can afford to help accommodate all the people living in these favelas, they don't want to because they would rather have to deal with the eyesore that is Paraisópolis than have what could be seen as competition.
What are they?
Areas where safe + secure housing, living conditions, services etc are virtually absent but people are forced to live there anyway, because they generally don't have anywhere else to go.
Causes
Population issues (3M people move to urban cities every week, coming faster than development takes place, meaning they end up living on the street, + eventually more + more people come to the city creating slum cities in the cities).
Economic situation (come to cities for jobs, but they require qualifications they don't possess, so work menial jobs after menial job without gaining enough money to afford life in an urban city).
New Division of Labor: automation of jobs causing people to lose their jobs or becoming under-qualified for the new positions, thus they go to the coastlines where the bigger cities are located, because there are more job opportunities than inland (such as the inland in Brazil compared to the Sudeste).
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