Global Slum: Digital Narrative and the New Urbanism (fwd)

Posted by Paul Paryski on Aug 09, 2007; 10:47pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Global-Slum-Digital-Narrative-and-the-New-Urbanism-fwd-tp524399.html

I certainly understand and agree with Carl's concerns as expressed in the  
article he included in his email.  The use by the Pentagon of modeling and  IT
programs for present and future urban battles is rather scary.   This is a
moral question; should complexity/chaos/ABM expert lend their  knowledge and
skills to promote such warfare?  I think not.
 
The UN currently does confront serious peacekeeping issues in  such  poor
mega-urban areas such as Port-au-Prince, Haiti and in other  failed states where
its peacekeeping troops are involved. However, this is  morally different than
a world power using IT & applied complexity to  consolidate its hegemony or
extend its empire.  Each expert must make  a moral choice on this issue and it
might be useful to develop consensus  based guidelines on this issue (without
any evident or smelly  flatulence!).  As climate change and global warming
create urban migration,  these problems will become more pressing than ever.
 
cheers Paul
 
   



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