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Jota Samper: The informal settlements reshaping the world | TED

Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. Creative, sustainable solutions find their home in the thousands of informal neighborhoods across the world. Urban planner Jota Samper believes these often overlooked settlements (also known as slums) should be regarded as hubs of innovation and shares three reasons…

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Creative, sustainable solutions find their home in the thousands of informal neighborhoods across the world. Urban planner Jota Samper believes these often overlooked settlements (also known as slums) should be regarded as hubs of innovation and shares three reasons why giving them the attention they deserve could help change the way humanity coexists — and cities evolve — on a global scale.

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  9. Adam.R

    August 27, 2021 at 4:20 pm

    there are informal settlements in the midwest. I tried to go camping in Fort Wayne but kept running into to squaters. I imagine its because its so close to the town and IU the school that so many people end up homeless out in brown county.

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      August 27, 2021 at 11:09 pm

      at the scale of 7.9 Bn humans; there is no fix ( i believe ). When the human condition is multiplied and amplified by sheer weight of numbers, everything crashes as nature does not easily accommodate this scale. Suppose we spread the wealth evenly amongst humanity…..would that not be like giving every country a nuke? The humans there are too many of are poor peasants,,,the rich will fix this sooner or later. And nature will fix the rich, with a micro nova or other natural, cyclical cataclysmic event. there is no fixing the human condition but mitigation might be available through AI.

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      August 31, 2021 at 12:28 pm

      Decreasing World Population

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    August 28, 2021 at 2:21 am

    Lets romanticize slums, because we live in turd world countries with corrupt governments. Institute US style constitutional governance with decentralized power, free speech and free enterprise. Duh!

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    August 28, 2021 at 6:37 am

    Informal settlements to informal cities, aka next world cities. The exclamation here is that the researchers for sustainability are yet unnoticed!

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    August 30, 2021 at 11:11 am

    This is such a profound exposition on the understanding of Informal settlements. The resilience is a worthy case study of Urban Justice.

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    August 31, 2021 at 2:32 am

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  28. Andy Cordy

    August 31, 2021 at 2:37 pm

    The horror of this situation is most grave and no form of city planning, however innovative can hope to alleviate a situation where so many new human beings need housing. We learned decades ago that social housing imposed on low income communities causes more problems than it solves, creating warring communities and lawless no go areas. Perhaps the organic growth of informal settlements will help stop some of these situations occurring but ahead of climate change the biggest problem facing humanity is population. Without de-population we are inviting extinction.

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