Stewart Brand on squatter cities

There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works.

(c) Regularizing and upgrading existing slums and squatter settlements

So, that's Kibera, the largest squatter community in Nairobi.

Hey, that's a single family home in the squatter community.

On slum upgrading, the challenge of preventing new squatter settlements was raised.

like Shanghai but most go to the squatter cities where aesthetics rule.

The numbers are considerable. A billion live in the squatter cities now.

led me to a new form, which came from a squatter camp outside Durban.

And this is Sultanbelyi, which is one of the largest squatter communities in Istanbul.

No new encroachments, formation of squatter settlements and unauthorized constructions will be allowed or recognized henceforth.

And then you finally get squatter homes like this, which is built on the suburban model.

Because in town this is the bustling squatter city of Kibera, near Nairobi they see action.

Demolitions of unauthorized displaced and squatter settlements continued in the capital city through 1992 and early 1993.

Agricultural land surrounding urban centres is often converted into squatter settlements, housing thousands of migrants from the countryside.

This is the squatter community in Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Bombay, India, what's called Mumbai these days.

Because in town this is the bustling squatter city of Kibera, near Nairobi they see action. They see opportunity.

11. The plight of the approximately 1.9 million internally displaced people and squatter citizens in and around Khartoum has worsened.

Severe overcrowding in some squatter areas near refugee camps has contributed to a deterioration of the infrastructure, further endangering children's health.

In the '90s, my interest and passion for transitional art forms led me to a new form, which came from a squatter camp outside Durban.

Townships, squatter, rural and urban communities suffered greatly from attacks by criminal vigilante groups, unknown hit men and persons alleged to be members of covert security forces.

8. The United Nations and its partners in relief continue to be concerned with the plight of the internally displaced population and squatter citizens in and around Khartoum.

These refugees were part of a larger group of some 12,000 individuals who had been evicted from their squatter settlements in the Beihai and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

The mainly southern internally displaced persons living in squatter areas and camps around Khartoum are still subject to forced relocations by the authorities, who often conduct violent search operations.

In Kenya, for example, where women head 70 per cent of all squatter households, over 25 per cent of women slum dwellers migrated from their rural homes because of land dispossession.

Robert Neuwirth, author of Shadow Cities, finds the world s squatter sites where a billion people now make their homes to be thriving centers of ingenuity and innovation. He takes us on a tour.

48. The Working Group was informed of the possible introduction of compulsory community service for all who qualified as doctors for a period of two years to serve in rural and squatter areas.

However, the Government continues to limit access and the flow of humanitarian assistance to the camps, as well as severely restricting relief interventions for the displaced and squatter citizens living outside of the camps.

And here's the unromantic truth and the city air makes you free, they said in Renaissance Germany. So some people go to places like Shanghai but most go to the squatter cities where aesthetics rule.

. The worst massacres were perpetrated in attacks on or armed assaults in townships and squatter, rural and urban communities by vigilante groups and unknown hit men, on some occasions alleged to be covert security forces.

Third, the report, in a clear act of injustice and premeditation, accuses the Government of consistently coercing its citizens into moving from their squatter settlements around the cities without providing them with suitable alternative housing.

The fact is that unauthorized squatter settlements in the Sudan date back to 1927 and that they remain despite the efforts of the then British colonial Power to replan them in accordance with modern standards.

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Over the past year, at least 23,000 families have lost their homes and means of livelihood as a result of government ordered demolitions of unauthorized displaced and squatter settlements, with a drastic escalation of demolition activities since June 1994.

Similarly, it is estimated that of the more than 600,000 squatter citizens who had their homes demolished by the end of 1992, approximately one third have been allocated land in one of the resettlement areas on the periphery of the city.

Major activities being undertaken in the shelter sector include urban housing construction for government institutions, housing construction by cooperatives and private individuals, upgrading of squatter settlements with external assistance from the World Bank, United Nations agencies and international NGOs, and rural development programmes.

So, I had been there almost three months, and I was touring around the city going to different squatter areas and Julius was tagging along, and he was bug eyed and at certain points we were walking around, he grabbed my hand for support, which is something most Kenyans would never consider doing.

So, I had been there almost three months, and I was touring around the city going to different squatter areas and Julius was tagging along, and he was bug eyed and at certain points we were walking around, he grabbed my hand for support, which is something most Kenyans would never consider doing.