What constitute the environmentalism for the poor? What does sustainability for the poor means? Urbanism and liveability in the perspective of the socially and economically disadvantage of social class and how ecological sustainability play a role in this context.

1. LIVEABILITY OR
ENVIRONMENTALISM
FOR THE POOR
by aleksandra szwedo and david ardiansyah

2. URBAN LIVEABILITY
URBANISM FOR THE POOR
MIKE DAVIS, ‘PLANET OF SLUMS’
ECO-URBANISM
HODSON AND MARVIN, ‘URBANISM IN
ANTHROPOCENE’

3. URBANISM FOR THE POOR
MIKE DAVIS, “PLANET OF SLUMS”
CHAPTER 4 ILLUSIONS OF SELF HELP

4. THE ‘FRIENDS’ OF THE POOR
OR ARE THEY?
site and services
self-help is a myth?

5. SOFT IMPERIALISM
participatory and partnership
de Soto’s ‘titling’ to empower the poor?

6. PROFITS OF POVERTY
market forces and real estate speculation
squatters as urban pioneers

7. END OF THE URBAN FRONTIER
denser periphery and rising cost
slums of hope to latifundia and
crony capitalism

8. ARE SLUMS INTRACTABLE?
are slums really that bad?
have states been far more effective in the
destruction of mass housing than its
contructions?

9. SLUMS OF HOPE OR JUST ILLUSIONS?
It would be foolish to pass from one distortion — that the slums
are places of crime, disease and despair — to the opposite that they
can be safely left to look after themselves.
Jeremy Seabrook

10. ECO-URBANISM
HODSON AND MARVIN, ‘URBANISM IN
ANTHROPOCENE’

11. ANTHROPOCENE
‘the result of human actions whose critical markers include
disturbances of the carbon cycle, global temperature’
‘development of industrialisation’
‘global growth in urbanisation’
‘now the survival of cities will be dependent upon their ability
to ensure ecological security’
cities ecology context
reshaping

12. ECO-TOWNS
reduce CO2 emissions by 80%
below 1990 levels by 2050
energy emissions - 0 or below
water efficient (water neutrality)
waste as fuel
eg. Whitehill Bordon

13. ECO-BLOCKS
urban gated communities (self-
sufficient unit)
resource self-sufficient
energy from on-site renewables
water and waste recycle
eg. Quingdao Eco-block project

14. ECO-ISLANDS
6000 new apartments and businesses
50% of power from renewable
resources
eg. Treasure Island, former naval air
base, San Francisco

15. ECO-CITIES
‘Dongtan is ¾ the size of Manhattan and
is designed as a sustainable city to attract
a whole range of commercial and leisure
investments to what is currently a large
area of mostly agricultural land’
eg. Dongtan, Masdar

16. ECO-REGIONS
energy saving modyfications (carbon emission
reduction by 60%)
water neutral
eg. Thames Gateway, UK
£9 billion project
Europe’s largest regeneration project
offshore wind generation dams + biomass generation
plant

17. creating one size fits all by ‘replicating eco-city
developments’
new development
money intensive (directed at richer communities)
gated communities

18. ALTERNATIVES?
community-based initiatives
local and community control of infrastructure
ensuring more equitable access to
environmental resources for low-income
households
eg. LID, Transition Towns, Relocalisation

20. FAIR CITY
users and resources
progressive socio-technical change
new development and retrofitting the existing
emphasise questions about need and politics
of interdependencies
debate of the consequences of the new style of
urbanism rather than eco-technic products

21. do you agree?

22. what is liveability or environmentalism
for the poor?
is it urbanism of the poor (by slum
upgrading) or is it through eco-
urbanism?

23. fin

24. thank you