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Hong Kong
Jakarta
Latin American Cities 1. CBD Was the original colonial city
Spine: high quality expansion of the CBD catering to the wealthy.
2. An elite residential sector
3. Zone of Maturity (middle class housing) Gradually improved, upgraded, self-built housing
Sao Paulo
4. In situ (in place) accretion (growth): Transition between slum and zone of maturity. Improvements in progress.
5. Shanty or squatter neighborhoods
The Favelas (Shanty Towns) on the Periphery of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Zone of In Situ Accretion
City of God doc
Different densities (Wales)
FR: Compare and contrast the causes and size of urban migration in the MDCs versus LDCs.
Contrast Size of migration: larger in LDCs
Compare Cause: jobs Opportunities, wide range of services,
Contrast Causes of migration (Why):
Natural increase is high in LDCs
rural migrants are pushed into cities out of desperation
In the core people move to cities because of lifestyle
European Cities: 1. Complex street patterns
orthogonal. Relating to or composed of right angles
Narrow, Twisty Streets Vienna, Austria
Tallinn, Estonia: Medieval City Central Square Church Narrow Streets Remnants of Wall and Towers
Prague: narrow, winding, cobblestoned streets
1950’s grid layout
2. Plaza and squares
The Square or Plaza Roma MilanoMunchen
Commerce today in the Original Square
3. High population density
High Density Residential Areas Beyond the Old Medieval Core Munich Amsterdam
4. Low skylines London
5. Lively downtowns
6. Pedestrian areas
Warsaw Poland: valuable space for parking
7. Neighborhood stability (people don’t move very often)
8. Public housing: Housing owned by the government rented to low-income households.
In the larger cities of Britain, France, and Germany roughly 20-40% of all housing is public housing (on final)
Beijing
Chinese public housing
Public housing in the United States has been administered by federal, state and local agencies to provide subsidized assistance for low- income and poor people. Increasingly provided in a variety of settings, public housing used to be one or more blocks of low-rise and/or high-rise housing operated by a government agency. They are often referred to as "the projects" Pruitt-Igoe public housing, St. Louis,Missouri. In the 1950s, this urban renewalproject was built; it failed and was razed in the 1970s.
In the U.S., citizens typically pay 30 percent of their income if they are living in public housing
Sixteen-story building, part of the infamous Robert Taylor Homes, Chicago, When completed in the 1960s, buildings like this were nicknamed "Congo Hiltons."
LA Public Housing – Hacienda Village Jordan Downs In LA about 95,000 people live in subsidized houses or apartments
Industry on the Perimeter: The German Ruhr
FR Similarities between Europe and Latin America cities?
Plazas and squares Rio
Lively downtowns (shops, restaurants, cafes, and cultural facilities)
Mexico City
Milan, Italy Wealthy people still live in the inner rings of the high-class sector
High population density Rio
Differences? Latin American cities have Shanty towns/squatter settlements Public Housing in Europe Complex street patterns in Europe
Sao Paulo video Why would a person choose to move to a squatter settlement knowing there aren’t going to be any services available and the sanitation conditions are going to be horrible?