7 billion neighbors

Between destruction, rehabilitation or letting go, what future for slums?

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In the alleys of Piste Tarzan, a slum in Cayenne RFI / Igor Strauss

By: Amélie Beaucour

1 min

By 2030, 2 billion people will be living in slums mainly in Asian and African countries.

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According to the World Economic Forum, 90% of urban growth comes from these informal settlements.

Rural exodus, incomes too low to access housing, difficulties in accessing land, etc. generally explain the existence of slums.

Faced with these illegal housing, often of poor quality, without sufficient access to water and sanitation, the reflex of the authorities has often been to evict these inhabitants.

But faced with the rapid growth of these informal settlements, the response of cities often seems inadequate.

Can we develop and restructure these precarious areas that are supposed to be temporary?

How to improve the living conditions of its inhabitants? 

With :

- Thierry Paquot

, philosopher and essayist, author of numerous works on planetary urbanization, but also utopias and the geohistory of ecological thought, author of

- Valérie Clerc

, architect-urban planner, researcher at the Institute for Research and Development (IRD at 

Université Paris cité.

An interview with 

, RFI correspondent in India on the slums of Bombay and New Delhi  

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