Name: What if the poor were part of city planning?
Uploaded: 2020-02-06T15:51:10Z
Duration: 13 min 18 s
Description: Almost a billion people worldwide live in informal communities and slums, often without basic infrastructure like clean water, toilets or adequate roads. Urban planner Smruti Jukur Johari breaks down myths about these communities and shares examples of simple, common-sense solutions that arise when governments and architects work together with the residents -- instead of around them.

Almost a billion people worldwide live in informal communities and slums, often without basic infrastructure like clean water, toilets or adequate roads. Urban planner Smruti Jukur Johari breaks down myths about these communities and shares examples of simple, common-sense solutions that arise when governments and architects work together with the residents -- instead of around them.

Smruti Jukur Johari: What if the poor were part of city planning?

What if the poor were part of city planning?

Empowering poor communities to contribute to city planning yields practical, innovative solutions tailored to their needs.

881 million people reside in slums, facing evictions and lacking basic services, yet they are integral to city functioning.

Mukuru's residents, once overlooked, now co-design their future, proving when given a voice, the marginalized create robust solutions.