Class Notes Name: Karen Gisselle

Topic: Poor and city planning Class: Cornell Note-Taking Lecture

Speaker: Smruti Jukur Johari Date: 25th March, 2020.
What if the poor were part of city planning?

Questions/Main Ideas Notes

People poor haven’t opportunity to choose, they live in People with no choices -> Poor
deplorable conditions. Living: Rivers, train rails…, with no enough
toilets, no clean water.
Principal two limitations for poor wellness: Smruti -> Architect : Overplanning, working
1. The perception for culture/governments/society poor with poorness.
people is a problem for cities. Share:
2. Professional people love to choose for all, especially for 1. Perception poor people -> Problem for
poor population, forcing their choices, without knowing cities
in the most of cases, what would be the better for them. 2. Personal Smruti’s Experiences -> We
Standards than optimistically functions in general cities, (professional), not better, love do
don’t function there, the contexts are different. choices for others (especially poor
people), forcing choices on them.
Instead: Prove, support, empower
To pass for informal to formal is a process, takes time for them, acknowledge them, to seek
people to get adapted and accommodate, to a new way of better for them.
living.
Accommodate poor people: informal to
Professionals must listen, and give the opportunity to poor
populations to seek, identify and choose, what works for formal : PROCESS (time: accept and adapt)
them, when they can choose, they choose better.
Mukune -> No water, 300.000 ’s -> 20.000
Residents (Special planning areas, ‘standards’
functions to general cities, not for them)
CLEAN WATER, TOILETS, NOT TO BE MOVED

Poor choose -> Choose better -> Works for

them -> Choose is everything -: Choose: power

Politicians, governments, professionals. ->

MUST -> Respect their choices, acknowledge,
empowered, support their choices, let them
choice.

Summary:

The difference between the extremely poor population and other society’s sectors, is that, they don’t have
the chance to choose, they have to adapt them to the conditions of the contexts. The main walls to break
down to follow the poor population’s wellness are the perception that they are a problem to cities and that
they are unable to choose what is better for them.

Professionals, and people that has been getting opportunities to academic and personal growth, should
support and search opportunities to poor sectors, in order to help them seek for, recognize and choose
what works for them, there is when politicians and social workers have to be awareness to design better
ways to experiment, seeing the initial point of the problem, due to regular standards aren’t appropriate,
when poor people is able to choose, they choose better, our labor is to acknowledge, support and
empowered them.