It also focuses on the urbanization that has been ocurring during decades. Also the article explains some percentages of some of the rural areas that existed a long time ago and they're basically destroyed these days.
In the middle of the 19th century, 90% of the Earth's surface was rural, at the middle of the 21sth century, 70% will be subject to urbanization. In the same period of time, the world's population will have gone from around 1.3 billion to 9 billion inhabitants. ALready now, almost half of the world's population lives in cities and almost one billion people are stuck living in ghettos or areas of extreme blight.
They are known as slums in India and Pakistan, favelas in Brazil, villas miserias in Argentina, poblaciones callampas in Chile, umjondolo in South Africa, shammasa in the Sudan, and iskwaters in the Philippines. Despite their varying names, these bidonvilles lead back to the very same practices of exclusion. If the general pattern of urban transition is the same everywhere, its time timeline and its impact highlight great disparities between one area and the next.
In the middle of the 19th century, 90% of the Earth's surface was rural, at the middle of the 21sth century, 70% will be subject to urbanization. In the same period of time, the world's population will have gone from around 1.3 billion to 9 billion inhabitants. ALready now, almost half of the world's population lives in cities and almost one billion people are stuck living in ghettos or areas of extreme blight.
They are known as slums in India and Pakistan, favelas in Brazil, villas miserias in Argentina, poblaciones callampas in Chile, umjondolo in South Africa, shammasa in the Sudan, and iskwaters in the Philippines. Despite their varying names, these bidonvilles lead back to the very same practices of exclusion. If the general pattern of urban transition is the same everywhere, its time timeline and its impact highlight great disparities between one area and the next.
