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ELEPHANTS IN THE PACIFIC?OR
THE FUTURE IS URBAN. REALLY?
EVEN IN THE PACIFIC? SO WHAT?
John Connell
University of Sydney
November 2010
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IMAGES AND IDYLLS
Post Cards from Paradise
Dichotomous Cities
Urban Pacific
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“During the past few years the South Pacific territories
have undergone rapid and large-scale urbanization. A
steady stream of migrants has been flowing from the
rural areas into towns that are, for the most part, ill
equipped to absorb the newcomers, to house them and to
provide them with the basic necessities of life.”
(South Pacific Commission, Regional Seminar on Health and Social
Panning and Urbanization, 1970, p. i)
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PACIFIC URBANISATION
AND ITS DISCONTENTS
Squatters evicted on Suva outskirts Fiji Times 2010
PNG Capital ranked among world’s worst Radio NZ International 2009
Port Moresby boom town in dire need of planning The National
2010
GROUP URGES CARE WITH PORT VILA SQUATTERS Radio NZ International 2010
Honiara feeling effects of rural neglect Solomon Star 2010
PNG’s overburdened Madanggrowing too fast: Squatters fouling the town PNG Post-
Courier 2010
Urban drift worries Fiji’s Lomaiviti Province Fiji Sun 2010
POOR SANITATION PLAGUES SUVA SETTLEMENTS Fiji Times Online 2010
Survey finds prostitution provides income in Fiji Fiji Times 2010
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WHY CITIES?
Administration / Economic Growth
Migration =
Employment
+ Services
+ Expectations
Natural Increase/
Urban Fertility?
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URBAN GROWTH
Half the Pacific is Urban
Polynesia, Micronesia ---- Melanesia (*)
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MIGRATION
Internal
Employment
Services
Environment
Towards permanency?
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ISSUES
Land
Settlements
Housing
Employment
Bulgy Youth
Formal and Informal
Incomes and Safety Nets
Social Order
Environment and Health
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LAND
Tenure
Scarcity
Sale
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HOUSING
Settlements
%?
services and employment
education and health
microfinance
marginal places … tenure
Formal HousingProvision
Rents
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EMPLOYMENT
From formal to informal
Unemployment
Youth
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INCOMES
Formal and Informal
Expenditure: school fees, rent, kero, food
Safety Nets
romancing the family
Social discontent
Chuuk „ public sharing and private hiding‟
Poverty of Opportunity
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SOCIAL ORDER
Crime … raskols and MPs
Symptoms and Structures
The Fractured City
LA in the Pacific
Strangers in a fractured city, and an age of entitlement
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Health
HIV/AIDs
MDGs
Nutrition … ET
Transport
Water, sewage, garbage
Recreation
Climate Change
ENVIRONMENT
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URBAN MANAGEMENT
PUMAs... and chiefs?
Urban Plans
Land use
Coordination
Institutional Strengthening
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THE AWOL STATE
Governance and Politics
Big men, matais and wantoks … and women?
Parties, philosophies and pork barrels
Democracy?
Isomorphic mimicry
Planning and Urban Bias
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ISLAND ECONOMIES
A Mirage of Development?
Large states in post(?) – conflict crisis
Tinkering and Aid Fatigue
Culture Anyone
The View from Aniwa
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PICS, BRICS AND CIVETS
Sachs, Collier and UNCTAD
Mauritius in another ocean?
An Asia-Pacific Viewpoint
From Shanghai to Tarawa
Better than PIGs?
?
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INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION –THE OUTWARD
URGE
History
Culture of Migration (TNC of kin, remittances, MIRAB..)
Polynesia, Micronesia (CFA).… Melanesia
Outward Urge
Degrees as Passports
Skill Loss ….. RM?
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POLICY AND ITS DISCONTENTS
Absent data - but even more absent policy
Employment
Housing …. back to site and service?
Services …. funding?
Policing the City?
Managing the City? National Urbanisation Policy?
Democracy and Civil Society
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THE ELEPHANTS COME HOME TO
ROOST
Towards a Conclusion ...
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