FutureCityLab (ftr.ct.lb)
ftr.ct.lb is a collaboration of leading engineers, universities and scientists worldwide in or- der to elaborate a (positive) urban vision for the next generations.
This vision should help to establish the planning directions that we need to take today.
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Case Study:Train coming through the Mae Klong Market
Cities today are the biggest money makers in the world. But while this is an obvious statement, the thing we should realize is this video takes place on the outskirts of Bangkok, the capital city of Thailand. The amount of people moving into the city far exceeds the amount of space/house availability in the city, so the population forms their own slums.
A slum, as defined by the United Nations agency UN-HABITAT, is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing and squalor and lacking in tenure security. According to the United Nations, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47% to 37% in the developing world between 1990 and 2005. However, due to rising population, and the rise especially in urban populations, the number of slum dwellers is rising. One billion people worldwide live in slums and the figure will likely grow to 2 billion by 2030. [1]
This extraordinary footage showcases how people will adapt to survive. Cities are projected to house 70% of the world’s population by 2050, and more situations like this will occur around the world. A short Ted Talk by Stewart Brand tells us that around 1.3 million people will move to a city every week (around 70 million in a year). [2]
[1] information from Wikipedia
[2] Stewart Brand Ted Talk 2006
