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1 Squatter settlement video http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=ZJJy5W9LXLw

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3 Hong Kong

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5 Jakarta

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8 Latin American Cities 1. CBD Was the original colonial city

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10 Spine: high quality expansion of the CBD catering to the wealthy.

11 2. An elite residential sector

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14 3. Zone of Maturity (middle class housing) Gradually improved, upgraded, self-built housing

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16 Sao Paulo

17 4. In situ (in place) accretion (growth): Transition between slum and zone of maturity. Improvements in progress.

18 5. Shanty or squatter neighborhoods

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20 The Favelas (Shanty Towns) on the Periphery of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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22 Zone of In Situ Accretion

23 City of God doc

24 Different densities (Wales)

25 FR: Compare and contrast the causes and size of urban migration in the MDCs versus LDCs.

26 Contrast Size of migration: larger in LDCs

27 Compare Cause: jobs Opportunities, wide range of services,

28 Contrast Causes of migration (Why):

29 Natural increase is high in LDCs

30 rural migrants are pushed into cities out of desperation

31 In the core people move to cities because of lifestyle

32 European Cities: 1. Complex street patterns

33 orthogonal. Relating to or composed of right angles

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35 Narrow, Twisty Streets Vienna, Austria

36 Tallinn, Estonia: Medieval City Central Square Church Narrow Streets Remnants of Wall and Towers

37 Prague: narrow, winding, cobblestoned streets

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39 1950’s grid layout

40 2. Plaza and squares

41 The Square or Plaza Roma MilanoMunchen

42 Commerce today in the Original Square

43 3. High population density

44 High Density Residential Areas Beyond the Old Medieval Core Munich Amsterdam

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46 4. Low skylines London

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51 5. Lively downtowns

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54 6. Pedestrian areas

55 Warsaw Poland: valuable space for parking

56 7. Neighborhood stability (people don’t move very often)

57 8. Public housing: Housing owned by the government rented to low-income households.

58 In the larger cities of Britain, France, and Germany roughly 20-40% of all housing is public housing (on final)

59 Beijing

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61 Chinese public housing

62 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.

63 In the U.S., citizens typically pay 30 percent of their income if they are living in public housing

64 Sixteen-story building, part of the infamous Robert Taylor Homes, Chicago, 1989. When completed in the 1960s, buildings like this were nicknamed "Congo Hiltons."

65 LA Public Housing – Hacienda Village Jordan Downs In LA about 95,000 people live in subsidized houses or apartments

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68 Industry on the Perimeter: The German Ruhr

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70 FR Similarities between Europe and Latin America cities?

71 Plazas and squares Rio

72 Lively downtowns (shops, restaurants, cafes, and cultural facilities)

73 Mexico City

74 Milan, Italy Wealthy people still live in the inner rings of the high-class sector

75 High population density Rio

76 Differences? Latin American cities have Shanty towns/squatter settlements Public Housing in Europe Complex street patterns in Europe

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78 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?

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