Stewart Brand of the WELL and the Whole Earth Catalog wrote an interesting article back in 2006 called City Planet. He gave a lecture to the commonwealth club which I came across on daviding.wordpress.com. He gave a what appears to be the same talk compressed down to unintelligability at TED, but watch that for some of the visuals missing from the longer version.
The bottom two billion are urbanizing, largely to squatter cities, to find jobs, freedom (especially for women), and education for their kids. He refers to Shadow Cities, by Robert Neuwirth, which I liked quite a bit, Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts, and C. K. Prahalad's The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid.
See also:
- Planet of Slums
- Learning from Informal Urban Economies
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