Viral photo of India

This may or may not portray population growth

tiny house on wheels

16 yr old builds himself a house to take with him to college and beyond

style?

I rike this one.

or this one?

They'll be so much work, but it could be worth it.
the 3d one would be really cool too, and about the same amount of work. its up to what style we want to do it in.

Fort McMurray

really good article about the crime rate and how it is likely the transient nature of the area that keeps it so high

fort mac

Occupy Wall Street

.org

When less includes getting rid of your body

Article talks about how the shift to digital enables us to live with less and foresees a time when we will upload our brain and live digital lives

your brain in a hard drive

Street Kids in Egypt, a new issue

There is very little data on the number of street children in Egypt and on the severity of the problems they face. However, observing the large numbers of poor children in the streets of Cairo and other large cities of Egypt - begging, running errands, parking/cleaning cars - and how these numbers have changed suggests that the problem is on the increase. A preliminary study of street children in Cairo carried out in 1993, added to the findings of studies from countries in Latin America and Asia where socio-economic changes similar to those in Egypt have taken place, suggests that the root causes are: rapid urbanization, deteriorating economic conditions, declining governmental and non governmental social programmes, and weakening family ties

full article

Study of Street Kids in Canada, some in Ottawa
probably need to be logged in to Carleton Library to view

Canadian Street Youth
government sponsored report

scale for the maps

Thank god for prezi, because we need to zoom in like crazy to get a look at that little guy. Pretty depressing stuff.

real time world stats

WOOOOAH

Transient Living?

a communication design presentation

Occupational Mobility and Minority Workers

a case study

Last year after Christmas break I walked into my apartment and got so fed up with all the stuff I had that I just kind of went nuts and got rid of almost everything.  I hate cleaning.  I take it back, I don’t mind cleaning, a little, to keep a place neat, but that in depth clean everything, dust everything, maintain everything, every week drives me crazy.  So my quarters took on a very Spartan atmosphere and I really liked it. 

A blog about living out of the back of your car

Wanderlust

an affective tool in marketing tourism destinations

Queensland tourism up when Austrakia tourism down 

haha cityinflux.com

The city of Sydney answers....

Do people choose to become homeless?

Paradigm Shift I think

zero footprint city in Abu Dhabi.

A City in Flux; Documenting Berlin's Forgotten Spaces

city reform

In the two decades since reunification, Berlin has been an enormous building site, but empty spaces still litter the city center. A new photography book highlights the forgotten corners of a city in perpetual transition.

Defining Squatting

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Definition of a squatter settlement varies widely from country to country and depends on a variety of defining parameters. In general, it is considered as a residential area in an urban locality inhabited by the very poor who have no access to tenured land of their own, and hence "squat" on vacant land, either private or public.

 

read more here. 

 

 

Residential Parking Reform for Downtown San Francisco

City Structure forcing workers/inhabitants to live in more minimal conditions

take a look at the effects of parking legislation here.

Maximun Life; Minimum Space

BLOOOOOG

check it out....

this is excellent for transient living as well as high density etc.

worth a peek for some case studies

burning man

anti-consummerism festival, transient?

city density

population density vs. energy consumption

Ethical Consumerism

Statistics surrounding the increase in ethical consumerism in the UK as well as Cape Town SA.

download the pdf case study here

living with less-global necessity

sustainability article on consumption vs. population from a yale mag.

Spain's unemployed: one in five under 30 still looking for that first job

read article here.

With the 16-19-year-old jobless rate at 43%, the young think they face emigration or harder lives than their parents

From eviction to squatting

current economic crisis in Spain and how its affecting living conditions.

read here 

 

sharesies

kind of like the craigslist culture. but bigger, right? an interesting idea.
let's keep in ming the craigslist phenomenon too. rideshare, barter, etc.

OWS

we should make some references to this most likely. flux like crazy.

Economic times forcing youth to squat.

Current unemployment issues creating a flux in lifestyle.

interview with french activist

Is this a 3+4

forced conditions (low-economy) and a low-income?

NEW SYSTEM???

*this google doc is posted so that we can label any case studies under 1 (or a combination) of conditions for a clearer understanding of where our research is focusing

TRANSIENT

    1    -occupational
    2    -preferred lifestyle
    3    -refugees (forced conditions)




NECESSITY

    4    -low income
    5    -high density cities
    6    -natural disaster




CHOICE

    7    -aesthetic preference
    8    -paradigm shift
    9    -moral/ethical reasons




        ***** @ coffee Leo and I also discussed clear connections and overlap of these conditions; 1+4 = occupational and low income reasons. Using this labelling system for future posts of case studies will make things clear. Please feel free to edit this google.doc as well as record on the blog using the labels.

FYI

population density stats.
also the causes of poverty, and some good stats on that. same site.

consumerism stats

so depressing.

Anti-consumerism tips; connected to the occupy movement

Not entirely on topic but you should check it out.

#choice

fluxing cities and the demographic shifts of people

I think this is key to narrowing down our case-studies...

http://thecityfix.com/blog/cities-in-flux-pilgrimage-in-jakarta-stifles-movement-once-a-year/ 

If Money doesn't make you happy, then you probably aren't spending it right

journal article, falls under choice

my 288 things

guy counts all his things.

good article that has lots of researched facts, numbers and jumping off points to studies done on possessions and happiness, proper researched facts, also talks about a book I've looked into that I think we could get some good quotes from - The Theory of the Leisure Class, it was written in 1899. Basically they guy claims that consumerism or the pursuit of high class, "irrational creatures who pursue social status with little regard to their own happiness."

article here
The Theory of the Leisure Class - wikipedia version
The book

excusing products

this was very funny to me. i think like this all the time.

travel mom

mom shares experience of travelling with 4 kids. Includes inventories of stuff she took, issues, etc.
This would file mostly under mobility, but i think it overlaps on choice as well.

Transient by CHOICE, NECESSITY & MOBILITY

Appalachian trail hikers increase in numbers with falling economy
here

American Yogi

about this American who becomes a Yogi in India but still goes back to the states now and again to make money for visa reasons, but also to improve his 'home' in India
here

motivational minimalist blog

like a life coach, but a website.

director of I AM

dismiss the source of the link, this is the director of Ace Ventura and some other stupid but money making movies - and how he changed from an extravagant life to less and made a movie about it, or I guess more about life in general
interview here
I AM documentary

The best things in life aren't things.

read this about choosing to live with less.
not a case study, but still cool.
that site in general has a lot of good articles. like this one about escaping consumerism.

Check out zenhabits

This is a zenny blog that often writes about living with less material anchors and avoiding the overwhelming life styles of the 21st century.

Check it out here for more and other interestign quotes and insights

2. Having less is lighter. Start asking yourself if you really need everything you have, or if you just have it out of fear. Start to let go of what you have, so it doesn’t own you. And then, as you have less, you feel lighter. It’s wonderful.

How do isolated tribes work into our theme?

Check out a National Geographic article here.

These tribes, people are the last few remaining groups of humans that are very closely tied to their natural environment, the forest. The live in thanks to it and care for it.

Isolation in Nature

Disintegration and Sprawl

Gallery show explores urban ruins and the problem of the built environment

Mazlow's Pyramid with respect to city living

A Visual Collection of Life in Mumbai's Slums

Check out the rest of the photo's here.

Victor Papaneks Study of Nomadic Living and How it Affects Furniture Design

 

this is just a wikipedia summary

Let's start reading; and post our stuff here.

considering we haven't done much in a long time; we should probably get together to put our brains together to figure out individual research subjects perhaps???