Sunday, February 8, 2009

Article: Charles declares Mumbai shanty town model for the world

from the Guardian
He warned that a soaring urban population - rising from 50% of all the world's inhabitants today to 70% by 2050 - could only be accommodated without disastrous social and environmental consequences by developing local urban design rather than "a single monoculture of globalisation".

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Interesting. Tricky line between being respectful of a culture and romanticizing or pigeon-holing a class. I agree with his stance on building from what you have. Similar to an outlook that Atul Gawande has on healthcare reform in a recent New Yorker.

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