Friday 28 October 2016

What If? Metropolis: Visual Research: Shanty Towns

London
Within a shanty town, the conditions tend to be very bad. There is no water, electricity, lots of rubbish, no schools and the roads are not tarred. The houses within are normally built on land that is unsustainable, such as steep hills or marshes. The buildings are often made up of broken bricks, wood, plastic and corrugated cardboard. The construction of any housing within shanty towns, there isn't really a street grid. No house numbers or any sort of identification as to who lives there. The high flammability of the rubbish and the materials the houses are built out of, fires are a massive risk. A fire that occurred in the shanty town of Shek Kip Mei, left 53,000 people homeless in 1953.

Rio De Janeiro
Shanty Town in Dharavi, India

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