In developing countries such as: India‚ Brazil and Kenya‚ shantytowns are hugely common and are a very controversial topic. These shantytowns provide affordable houses for thousands of poor‚ destitute and desperate people who without these ‘illegal’ communities would be homeless. However‚ despite this‚ the government has not approved these communities and the land they take is not theirs to live on. This has led to an interesting debate on whether the government can make the settlers in the shanty
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Settlers‚ where Black Hawk‚ a Sac Indian war chief‚ conveys his life story to try and justify his actions in the Black Hawk war against the American settlers‚ and an Encounter between Omaha Hunters and White Squatters in Iowa‚ where a hostile encounter between Omaha Hunters and White Squatters was the result of dramatically different conceptions of landownership amongst them. Tecumseh‚ a Shawnee diplomat and warrior‚ saw his homeland being invaded by white settlers and believed that only a pan-Indian
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Disparities in Wealth and Development The eight Millennium Development Goals are: 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger: MDG is trying to cut the number of people living off $1 in half. Overall poverty rates fell from 46% in 1990 to 27% in 2005 in developing regions‚ and progress in many developing countries is being sustained. 2. Achieve universal primary education: MDG is trying to increase the number of educated people in the world. They state that they think this goal will
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of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime Urbanization- movement of people from rural areas to urban areas Urban Primary- a city that dominates the urban system and is the center of economic‚ political and cultural life Squatter settlements- makeshift housing on land not legally owned Nation state- relatively homogeneous cultural group with its own political territory Culture-Learned or shared behavior by a group of people empowering them with a distinct "way of life" Cultural
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Urban environments - Geography URBANISATION: a process where an increasing proportion of the population lives in towns and cities‚ and there is a reduction of people living in rural areas URBAN REGENERATION: Slum clearance: the removal of old‚ port quality housing Peripheral housing estates: new estates on the edges of towns Regeneration and modernisation: upgrading of existing housing stock CAUSES: Rural urban migration: This is because of push-pull factors: for example people came
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Art Exhibition Assignment | Yuvan Naidoo 12C | Gallery: Everard Read Gallery. Location of Gallery: Jan Smuts Avenue‚ Johannesburg. This Gallery is a Contemporary gallery. When I visited the gallery on 11 March 2013‚ the gallery was mainly exhibiting works by Keith Joubert and Dylan Lewis along with a few other interesting artists. The gallery was exhibiting a wide variety of paintings and sculptures including mixed media‚ sculptures and furniture. Reason for choosing exhibition: I had
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Part A: As a consultant land manager‚ whom would you regard as key stakeholders and how would you go about engaging with them to balance‚ or reconcile‚ the three pillars of sustainable development in the subject area? Sustainable development is defined as “development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” In this essay‚ I will be tabulating all the three pillars of sustainable development which are; Economic
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The Pasig River “As exemplified by the city government of Marikina‚ the development of the riverbanks depends mainly on the local government. The political will to evict people from illegally built establishments and structures and to maintain the developed areas along the river has driven local governments to lengthy debates with concerned groups. In addition‚ funding for the construction and maintenance of parks The PRRC sketch design of the Pasig River in the
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The Rehabilitation of Pasig River The Pasig River is a 27-kilometer river which traverses the cities of Manila‚ Makati‚ Mandaluyong‚ Pasig‚ Taguig and the municipality of Taytay in the Province of Rizal. It serves as the only outlet that drains excess water from the landlocked Laguna de Bai to Manila Bay. It also drains four (4) major river tributaries - the San Juan‚ Marikina‚ Napindan and Taguig-Pateros Rivers and a vanishing network of 47 creeks and esteros. In the years before large-scale
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certain distinction and excellence of composition. The setting and theme of “Oli Impan” tell much about what of life it mirrors‚ that is‚ the living conditions of people in the slums of Tondo. The fraught lives of these ‘squatters’ and their refusal to move out from their settlements in the ‘bombed ruins of an old government building of Juan Luna’ presented in the drama are a clear depiction of what real denizens of Tondo‚ or even those of other slums‚ actually experience. The lack of education‚ a direct
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