Comments on: Tokyo Future Slum http://www.airoots.org/2008/08/tokyo-future-slum/ A blog by Rahul Srivastava and Matias Echanove on adventitious roots, urban forests and villages, natural cities, lost tribes, new nomads and everything in between and under... Tue, 13 Aug 2013 03:30:59 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: airoots http://www.airoots.org/2008/08/tokyo-future-slum/comment-page-1/#comment-3767 airoots Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:55:37 +0000 http://www.airoots.org/?p=325#comment-3767 Dear Leonardo, Thanks for your passionate response. We respectfully disagree. And no..we dont live in the comfort of the first world at all. We are based in Mumbai and Goa and work extensively from Dharavi. Do check our website www.urbz.net for further details. best Dear Leonardo,
Thanks for your passionate response. We respectfully disagree. And no..we dont live in the comfort of the first world at all. We are based in Mumbai and Goa and work extensively from Dharavi. Do check our website http://www.urbz.net for further details.
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]]> By: Leonardo http://www.airoots.org/2008/08/tokyo-future-slum/comment-page-1/#comment-3761 Leonardo Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:36:27 +0000 http://www.airoots.org/?p=325#comment-3761 I'm from Rio and I must say that you're totally wrong in this comparison. If Tokyo had a peculiar model of urban development, Rio has no model at all. You forgot to say that we have whole families living in tiny boxes, sometimes 10 people or more. Plus, the shacks were built on occupied land, without permission from the city hall. No one has ownership of their land and to the eyes of the law they are just invaders. There's no infrastructure too. Most of the time, the sewage is discharged in natura in rivers close by. There is no transportation, as no kind of public transport can cross those narrow "streets". And you seem to completely ignore - or perhaps you're just too naive - the fact that our ONE THOUSAND shanty towns are controlled by gangs with heavy weapons hence my city is one of the most violent in the world. You say "don't destroy it, develop it", and I respectfully disagree by saying TEAR IT DOWN, BUILD DECENT HOUSES AND LET PEOPLE LIVE IN GOOD CONDITIONS (as you probably do, while typing this kind of nonsense in the comfort of a first world house...). I’m from Rio and I must say that you’re totally wrong in this comparison. If Tokyo had a peculiar model of urban development, Rio has no model at all.

You forgot to say that we have whole families living in tiny boxes, sometimes 10 people or more. Plus, the shacks were built on occupied land, without permission from the city hall. No one has ownership of their land and to the eyes of the law they are just invaders.

There’s no infrastructure too. Most of the time, the sewage is discharged in natura in rivers close by. There is no transportation, as no kind of public transport can cross those narrow “streets”.

And you seem to completely ignore – or perhaps you’re just too naive – the fact that our ONE THOUSAND shanty towns are controlled by gangs with heavy weapons hence my city is one of the most violent in the world.

You say “don’t destroy it, develop it”, and I respectfully disagree by saying TEAR IT DOWN, BUILD DECENT HOUSES AND LET PEOPLE LIVE IN GOOD CONDITIONS (as you probably do, while typing this kind of nonsense in the comfort of a first world house…).

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