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Award-winning architect builds 'half houses', says slums should inspire

2016-05-27 07:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Award-winning Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena wants city governments worldwide to stop fighting urban migration and look to Latin America's sprawling slums as inspiration for new housing. The winner of the 2016 Pritzker, regarded as the Nobel Prize of architecture, Aravena says the vast 'favelas' in cities such as Rio de Janeiro highlight human resilience and the instinctive capacity for home-building. He said if cities are going to successfully absorb the projected 1.5 billion new arrivals...

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Bangladeshs urban slums swell with climate migrants

2016-05-24 14:06:38| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Inter Press: Abdul Aziz, 35, arrived in the capital Dhaka in 2006 after losing all his belongings to the mighty Meghna River. Once, he and his family had lived happily in the village of Dokkhin Rajapur in Bhola, a coastal district of Bangladesh. Aziz had a beautiful house and large amount of arable land. But riverbank erosion snatched away his household and all his belongings. Now he lives with his four-member family, including his 70-year-old mother, in the capital`s Malibagh slum. "Once we had huge arable...

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