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In the same way in which ethnic conflict and civil war are not natural but man-made disasters, their prevention and settlement does not happen automatically either.
Humanitarian organizations mostly focused on the formal settlement in rural areas, and there was nothing in place for us.
And you can see from this map, there's this incredible geographical signature of a series of islands that were out in the harbor and a matrix of salt marshes and beaches that served as natural wave attenuation for the upland settlement.
So our concept is really this back-to-the-future concept, harnessing the intelligence of that land settlement pattern.
One is to develop a new artificial ecology, a reef out in the harbor, that would then protect new settlement patterns inland and the Gowanus.
I realized that the truly appropriate, low-cost tools that I needed to start a sustainable farm and settlement just didn't exist yet.
If you were to arrive in Nairobi today and pick up a tourist map, Kibera is represented as a lush, green national park devoid of human settlement.
Well during the settlement process, when we received our copy, I struck it.
He was sent in 1907 to Palestine by the Zionist organization to look at areas for Jewish settlement and acquire land for Jewish settlement.
And these are studies commissioned by the Zionist organization for alternative areas for Jewish settlement.
Because those people who were hunter-gatherers in origin wanted to be free and roam and pick up information as they wanted, and those that were in the business of farming information wanted to build fences around it, create ownership and wealth and structure and settlement.
If not, the people will abandon the chief, go somewhere else and set up a new settlement.
So at the end, I had a settlement with them.
By association, what Kat wasn't was just like the little brown-skinned children frolicking through the streets of some incidental railway settlement like Tati Siding, or an off-the-grid village like Kgagodi, legs clad in dust stockings whose knees had blackened from years of kneeling and wax-polishing floors, whose shins were marked with lessons from climbing trees, who played until dusk, went in for supper by a paraffin lamp and returned to play hide-and-seek amongst centipedes and owls until finally someone's mother would call the whole thing to an end.
I thought I would start with a very brief history of cities. Settlements typically began with people clustered around a well, and the size of that settlement was roughly the distance you could walk with a pot of water on your head.
A modern market is more than a website; it's a web of interoperable marketplaces, back office mechanisms, regulatory regimes, settlement mechanisms, liquidity sources and so on.
Could anyone honestly suggest, on the evidence, that the same media which Hansard so roundly condemned have taken sufficient care to avoid behaving in ways which they could reasonably have foreseen would be likely to undermine or even damage our inherently fragile democratic settlement.
The company that made it, VIZIO, paid a 2.2 million-dollar settlement to the government just last year, because it had been collecting second-by-second information about what millions of people were watching on TV, including us, and then it was selling that information to data brokers and advertisers.
The settlement, spanning some 200,000 square meters and home to as many as 10,000 people, thrived until around 1180 BCE.
When we think about mapping cities, we tend to think about roads and streets and buildings, and the settlement narrative that led to their creation, or you might think about the bold vision of an urban designer, but there's other ways to think about mapping cities and how they got to be made.
So you can see, though, that the tensions that we've heard about in San Francisco in terms of people being concerned about gentrification and all the new tech companies that are bringing new wealth and settlement into the city are real, and you can actually see that documented here.
The settlement begins in a mythical state of isolation, but is gradually exposed to the outside world, facing multiple calamities along the way.
And we now have many bacterial strains in our freezer that will reliably cause corals to go through that settlement and attachment process.
Think about all the things that need to happen for a human settlement to thrive: obtaining food, building shelter, raising children and more.
But the Atlantic slave trade began in the late 1400s with Portuguese colonies in West Africa, and Spanish settlement of the Americas shortly after.
For example, in a settlement called Nakivale, we found examples of Congolese refugees running digital music exchange businesses.
Demou-Kay arrived in the settlement with very little, but he wanted to be a filmmaker.
This is in a US FTC settlement.
In that sense, settlement, identity and social integration are all the producer and product of effective urbanism.
I mean, you tap your card in the corner store, and a bitstream goes through a dozen companies, each with their own computer system, some of them being 1970s mainframes older than many of the people in this room, and three days later, a settlement occurs.
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