Stoke-on-Trent

                                                   

What nickname did the locals give Stoke-on-Trent

and why?

”Smoke-on-Stench”

Coal was used to fire the kilns, and each chimney belched out thick black smoke.

The pollution blackened buildings and affected people’s health

Wedgwood, 1941

Wedgwood, Eutruria

Echoes of EutruriaA haunting image of The Potteries past... The unique character of a City born in the

smoke and fires of a million chimneys and the curious bottle-shaped ovens of its famous factories.

Eutruria today

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Old Industrial Landscapes

The main features include

•Canals and railways for transport

•Factories, three or four stories high, with chimneys

•Large, irregular shaped factories

•The old factories caused a lot of air and river pollution

•Housing close to the factories

•Often found in the inner city areas

•Little open space

Stoke town centre, 1957

New Industrial LandscapesThe main features include

•Planned industrial estates and business parks •Usually found at or near the edge of a city •Low factories with plenty of space for parking and expansion •Near good road links •Uses electricity as a power supply •Includes open space with trees and grass to improve the quality of the environment

Decorating the pottery is a highly skilled job

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The area is now trying to attract visitors to see the old industrial buildings and visit the working pottery factories

Hong Kong

Hong Kong has the busiest container port in the world, and the third busiest airport

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The Hong Kong factories mainly produce light consumer goods like clothing, plastics and

electronics

Favelas (shanty towns, squatter settlements)

BRAZILIAN SETTING

Nationally...

•170 million Brazilians, 82% live in cities •50 million live in poverty, approximately half of these in favelas, •35 million earn less than $40/month •2.2 million children aged 5-14 work •60 million have no sewerage •1 in 3 suffer from malnutrition, 10 million eat less than 250cals/day (UN minimum is 1.9kcal/day) •14% illiterate •20% of GDP spent on social problems •$22 billion per year to service the national debt •Only 7% have internet access - new national agenda for ‘digital

inclusion’

The urban shantytowns: 'Favelas'

• Distinct communities have developed in the last 25 years - the ‘forgotten’

• Islands of poverty, neglected by politicians • In close proximity to high rise offices and

affluence • Large families, child pregnancies,

developed in last 25 years - the violence, drugs..

• Loss of identity, self-esteem and hope • Hard to enter, even harder to escape

Jobs are hard to find, especially if you are over 25Casual labour or housemaids for the rich

Self-build projects in the UK