1. Planet Of SlumsBy Mike Davis Alexa Bouquet

3. Slums range in population

4. South Asia’s 5 major metropolises contain around 15,000 slum communities

5. South Asia’s slum population is over 20 million

6. “Megaslums” happen when shanty towns and squatter communities come together in continuous belts of informal housing and poverty, usually on the urban periphery

7. Most “Megaslums” have come about since the 1960’s

8. “Housing is a verb”

10. “ Since 1970 the larger share of world urban population growth has been absorbed by slum communities on the periphery of Third World cities.” ( Davis 37)

11. Some shantytowns house majority of the city

12. East Asia has stat- built housing

13. Squatting is the possession of land without sale or title

14. At time squatters can become political drama

16. At least half of the region’s non-white population lives in informal settlements in areas of toxic waste and chronic ground collapse

17. Many Brazilian cities are prone to slope failure and landslides

18. In 1990 geomorphologic surveys revealed that one quarter of Sao Paulo’s favelas were located on dangerous grounds

19. Between 1966-7 2000 people were killed in debris flows

21. “Satellite reconnaissance of Nairobi reveals that more than half of the population lives on just 18 percent of the city area.” (Davis 95)

22. Nairobi’s poor are forced to live in crowded space, while the wealthy enjoy a lot of land

23. “In Dhaka 70 percent of the population is estimated to be concentrated into only 20 percent of the surface are.” (Davis 95)

24. These patterns of land use go back to the thought of imperial control and racial dominance

26. The reason being when these events happen “clean-up” tends to happen

27. Most cities would prefer not to have have slum-dwellers

28. “During the Nigerian Independence celebration in 1960, for example, one of the first acts of the new government was to fence the route from the airport so that Queen’s Elizabeth’s representative, Princess Alexandria, would not see Lagos’s slums.” (Davis 104)

29. Shanty-dwellers are often cleared out of cities