#humansettlements

I heart Urban Planning When I say I am developing a housing strategy for the city, It's not only about determining the next best strategic housing construction site. A lot of advocacy work involved. It's speaking up for these people and elevating their value in policy discusions because most leaders think we can just sweep them away and make the city clean and crime free. The same leaders who value their critical mass - because they are significant part of population. I am in Africa #HumanSettlements #InformalSettlements #UrbanHousing #UrbanPlanning #urbanexplored_ (at Gauteng) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqWfwF6hXNr/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=meyi7qbmhvhs

Human Settlements of early and medieval times got shaped around water, may it be in the form of a river or of an ocean. The former saw development of big settlements along with the development of rich culture and the latter acted as a facilitator to transport culturally produced items to other parts of the world by means of Oceans and Seas in the absence of Airways or any connecting mode of transportation.

Nuuk the capital & the largest city of Greenland lies in the municipal region of Sermersoog which is a newly constructed municipality in Greenland in operations from 2009 formed after merging former municipalities of Easter and South-Western Greenland. Isertoq lies in the same region and is a very small human settlement with a population of 93 in 2010 which has decreased to nearly half from 1991 when it was 171 and by 27 per cent if compared with the levels of 2000. It has a maritime influenced tundra type of climate with temperature limits ranging from -16 degrees in winters to a maximum of around 7 degrees in summers. The conditions must be tough to live at times but the natural beauty around showcasing its ever present serenity would have made it a bit easier, comfortable & meaningful for the local population. 

The population of the village is around 100 while that of the goats is 500. Eight goat farms produce around 10,000 kg of cheese every year which is exported along with the locally produced goat sausage. This small human settlement imbibes in itself the natural scenic beauty along with a distinct human culture which developed and flourished in a close knit system for the most part of its developmental story. 

Supai is around 13 kilometres away from the nearest road. The mail service is still carried out by mules which makes it one of a very few such spaces in the United States where connectivity is almost ancient. It has been referred to as the most remote community in the contiguous United States of America by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 

Of places and spaces. #PlacesProjectPH will be launched soon :) #CERP31 #HumanSettlements #DCERP #UPLB