Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Welcome to the Billion-Man Slum - The Daily Beast
Joel Kotkin writes about them on the DailyBeast website:
"Here’s the difficult truth: Most emerging megacities, particularly outside of China, face bleak prospects. Emerging megacities like Kinshasa or Lima do not command important global niches. Their problems are often ignored or minimized by those who inhabit what commentator Rajiv Desai has described as the VIP zone of cities,' where there is 'reliable electric power, adequate water supply, and any sanitation at all.' Outside the zone, Desai notes, even much of the middle class have to 'endure inhuman conditions' of congested, cratered roads, unreliable energy, and undrinkable water.
The slums of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, swell by as many as 400,000 new migrants each year."
