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Yemi on urban planning
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    0 starsYemisrachBA | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 04 2007 | people, humanitarian, urban planning, Governance, Aid Policy, Urban Risk, human rights, IDPs (intercity) and resettlement
    IRIN Africa | West Africa | NIGERIA: Abuja's splendid centre surrounded by urban blight

    Pete you might find this interesting
    urbanization without effective planning on infrastructure (speciifcally roads)...this issue is very common in a lot of major African cities (from what I have seen so far)...disparity in urbanization and displacement (eviction) of many poors living in major cities.

    Quoted: Central Abuja looks like a modern capital with wide streets and a skyline with spectacular public buildings. But four years after a massive urban demolition programme began in 2003, little progress has been made in resettling the roughly 800,000 people that the Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) estimate have been displaced.

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    5 starsYemisrachBA | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 18 2007 | news, humanitarian, ecology, urban planning
    OCHA IRIN | In-depth | Tomorrow’s Crises Today: The Humanitarian Impact of Urbanisation

    great overview!!!

    Quoted: At present, 3.3 billion people live in urban centres across the globe. By 2030 this number is predicted to reach five billion, with 95 percent of this growth in developing countries. Over the next three decades, Asia’s urban population will double from 1.36 billion to 2.64 billion, Africa’s city dwellers will more than double from 294 million to 742 million, while Latin America and the Caribbean will see a slower rise from about 400 million to 600 million, according to the UN Population Fund (UNFPA).

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    5 starsYemisrachBA | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 21 2007 | video, movie, Africa, humaniterian, urban planning
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    Great work Andy!!! A walk through the streets of Kibera, the second largest slum in the world. It is estimated that as many as one million people live in the 2.5 sq. mile area that is Kibera slum. Most of these people lack access to basic necessities, i.e. electricity, clean water and waste disposal. This video depicts a glimpse of one kid’s daily walk to school on the unforgiving streets of Kibera.

    Quoted: Movie filmed by a volunteer to raise money for Saint Charles School in the second largest slum in the world, Kibera (more)

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