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Slums in Manila problems in a big success

Slums in Manila problems in a big success. Sumika Ueda. Location . 2 years ago…. Makati The financial center Rich, clean, organized. Foreign companies in Metro-Manila. Urbanization. 3million Filipinos 1/30. A s lum residents. 31million Filipinos $1.26 /day Poor, dirty, messy.

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Slums in Manila problems in a big success

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  1. Slums in Manilaproblems in a big success Sumika Ueda

  2. Location

  3. 2 years ago…

  4. Makati • The financial center • Rich, clean, organized Foreign companies in Metro-Manila Urbanization

  5. 3million Filipinos 1/30 A slum residents 31million Filipinos $1.26/day Poor, dirty, messy Slums the symbol of social inequality

  6. Expansion of slums • frustration from poverty & unemployment • Social unrest, illegal business, crimes • Urbanization will be unsustainable • A risky image of Manila • Keeping foreign companies away • Money flow toward illegal business Problems

  7. 60% live in urban areas 2 billion will move in the next 20 years ◄◄A family of 7 in their entire living space Job opportunities attract people to Manila No capacity of housing & employment The lack of strategic plans Slums, informal settlements, overpopulation Overpopulation - poor side

  8. Certain number of people • ◄◄ex. SM supermarket • Symbol of development • Owned by Chinese people • Foreign investors • Their own network • Kicking poor people out Flourish – rich side

  9. Unequal situation and social banishment tend to be the main cause of crime and violence more than poverty. (as cited in Beall & Fox, 2009, p.175) Human security issues Criminal network Own informal business Social / ethnic tensions Local government is forcing him to leave in order to built a new city hall Human security

  10. Inequality, Social / ethnic division • Target : rich class, foreigners (Chinese) • 2100 people were abducted (1993-2003) • Ransom: $4 million(2004) • $24 (the last few decade) • Ahuge robust industry Kidnapping in Manila

  11. Economic impacts

  12. NGOs non-authorial actors financial difficulties • The government authorial, powerful required change: focus on urbanization of rich areas  preparing capacity of housing and employment supporting NGOs Solution – planned urbanization

  13. Arnold, W., & Conde, C.H. (Jan. 28, 2003). In Manila, kidnapping as a business • expense. New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/28/business/in-manila-kidnapping-as-a-business-expense.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm • Beall, J., & Fox, S. (2009). Cities and development. New York: Routledge. • Bezgachina, K. (Sep. 17, 2012). World urban forum: housing a ‘fundamental human • right’. the guardian. Retrieved from http://www.guardian.co.uk/housing-network/2012/sep/17/world-urbanisation-new-housing-paradigm?INTCMP=SRCH • Khanna, P. (Sept./ Oct. 2010). Beyond city limits. Foreign Policy. Retrieved • from http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/08/16/beyond_city_limits • Manila slum walls built to hide Philippines poverty. (Feb. 05, 2012). Huff Post • World. Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/03/manila-slum-walls-built_n_1474363.html • Packer, G. (Nov. 13, 2006). The megacity. The New Yorker. Retrieved • from http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/11/13/061113fa_fact_packer • Pinder, D. (2002). In defence of utopian urbanism: Imagining cities after the ‘end of utopia’. The dialectics of utopia and dystopia. 84 (3/4), 229-241. References

  14. Thank you for listening !

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