Jen's conclusion slides

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Some of these slides may be separated into more slides b/c of all the info if it is too much for one. Should this be posted on the blog?

*Now

(as in our standpoint/solutions/how does knowledge of all this help us design buildings and cities)

REALLY DRAMATIC VIGNETTING

*The obvious conclusion we can draw from it is important to build low-income housing in order to help prevent slums, as slums do not make for a healthy/ideal society...slum-dwellers are essentially rule-breakers who ignore their governments by living wherever they want. This is not to say they enjoy it or anything; because they are unable to afford basic needs for survival and their government is not successfully addressing this, they are FORCED to become outlaws living in illegal dwellings in order to survive. Their needs are not satisfied by these makeshift homes, which are places of extremely high crime rate and disease, among other problems.

THIS INFO SPREAD OVER THESE 2 IMAGES...

(Works Progress Administration Posters 1936-43)

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However, society (the people-->the government-->the urban planners and architects) must begin considering low-income housing a very high priority in order to prevent slums from forming instead of allowing them to form and then addressing the very costly and difficult task of fixing the problem after it is well-rooted.

*Is that all? (is that all we can take away from looking at slums?)

ON SCREENSHOT OF SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE VICTORY/JAI HO DANCE

*No.

ON SCREENSHOT OF JAMAL AND LATIKA LOOKING WORRIED

ON SAME SLIDE OR NEW SLIDE

The simple, economic strategies used by developing countries for survival are strategies that should not only be used when we are thinking about low-income housing or poverty-government-related-stuff. We need to apply this same mindset of thinking of practical and economical solutions to our buildings.

IF THIS IS ON NEW SLIDE, WE COULD USE AN IMAGE OF A CITY..

Toronto

*The documentary The End of Suburbia discusses the impossibility of maintaining the huge amounts of energy our highly consumptive lifestyle demands. No combination of alternative energy sources could supply the amount of energy that oil was able to provide us before peak oil (the point at which the world's oil supply is its highest).

The End of Suburbia, 2004

*Some places are ahead of us in their concern for energy-efficient, space-efficient and economic housing because of the necessity of it (created by their gigantic population).

Yamashita House

*We must think about these things NOW. Although population in North America is not a problem yet, we are very accustomed to ignoring the problem of our huge energy consumption.

(As stated in The End of Suburbia,) as a society we MUST concern ourselves with the reality that our lifestyle, which is by far the most highly consumptive in the world, is unsustainable.

National Geographic, June 2004

*Like slum-dwellers are forced to do, we must think of practical, and therefore innovative, housing and lifestyle solutions. Like slum-dwellers have been successful in doing, we must find ways of using simple materials and simple strategies in order to survive.