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• W1509356875 abstract "Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, a New Urban World Robert Neuwirth New York, Routledge 2005 Anyone interested the future of humanity and civilization must unquestionably take note of the growth of urban slums around the a burgeoning trend so graphically documented by Neuwirth this book. It is one thing to publicize the astonishing explosion of population Africa, Asia and South America, but another to come to grips with the way which the human demographic explosion is transforming the world. Ensconced the prosperity of European and North American societies, now faced primarily by the threat of a decline their own population and the likelihood (in Europe at least) of being swamped by tsunami waves of migrants from the overflowing populations of the developing nations, Westerners general are unaware of the way which the current growth of urban slums the world's major cities may be a harbinger of the entire future of humanity. What is happening South America, Africa and Asia is seemingly doomed to happen also the hitherto prosperous nations. In many parts of London, for example, the evidence is already present. The world's cities today house more than a billion impoverished squatters, and it is estimated that within a generation this will have increased to two billion. More than half the people living the cities of the world will then likely be squatters - people without property (living on any available piece of land), clean water or sanitation, and finding subsistence by whatever means they can. Daily these squatter communities are being reinforced by fresh migrants from the prolific rural populations, unable to find a living on the now overcrowded and overexploited lands of their forefathers. Meanwhile, the residents of the urban slums continue to have sex - they have little else to do - and likewise reproduce prolificacy. The more prosperous residents of the cities fear to enter these fearful, overcrowded urban slums, and indeed have no personal reason to do so. Author Neuwirth was not one of those who stayed outside the burgeoning urban areas of the Third World. Neuwirth is an investigative reporter who spent two years living the burgeoning slums of Rio de Janeiro (the formerly comfortable capital of Portuguese South America), Nairobi (the formerly luxurious capital of British colonial Kenya), Mumbai (the proud old imperial Bombay that was), and Istanbul (once centuries past the glittering capital of the Byzantine Empire). He has produced a remarkable sociological treatise, marred only slightly by sparks of ignorance and prejudice as to European colonial history. Let me cite just one example of the latter: Neuwirth writes (p. 95), in the parallel of colonial power, when the British designated people as Sudanese, it could mean they were from Egypt, Ethiopia, Uganda, Zaire, and Nigeria, as well as the Perhaps it takes someone who was one of the British colonial services when the British Empire was still existence to remember that the entire swathe of land south of the Sahara and North of the tropical equatorial forests of central Africa was once labeled the Sudan, and what is today called the Sudan is only one part of that area, a part formerly known as Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. There was no weird parallel reality about that. Such purposeless comments are only possible the context of a prejudiced distortion of history, but Neuwirth obviously grew up a cultural environment that represented all European colonial achievements as bad or, as one contemporary playwright operating London described it, obscene, so we must forgive him the distorted tunnel vision that was imposed on so many of his generation. The objectivity with which he describes the new urban world, something about which he has firsthand knowledge, more than compensates for such small, irritating asides. Thus, Neuwirth opens his chapter on Nairobi with the following: One glimpse is enough. …" @default.
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