CALL FOR

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CALL FOR
HYGINEIC,
ACCESSIBLE,
FREE
PUBILC TOILETS
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WHY TOILETS

• Sanitation as a basic Right Priority!- UNEP,
  UNESCO, UH-Habitat, WHO.
• Water Supply and Sanitation, as a hand in hand
  approach for health.
• Toilets, as a standard for livability! How
  livable is london 46 (ET, 2006)? Pedestrians-
  Their role and importance in the city.
• Differential impact of the lack of Toilets!

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PROBLEMS

• Lack of urban infrastructure, particularly
  toilets.
• The existing facilities are either paid or
  restricted with conditionalities.
• Cleanliness and Hygiene.
• Accessibility- Physical, Social, Cultural.
• City Image. Approaching Olympics.

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PROBLEMATIQUE

• Right to the city
• Belongingness and Political mandate of different
  groups in the city.
• Bringing Activism to the forefront of the city
  culture. Active Citizenship- Beyond instrumental
  citizenship.
• Who has the right to the city? Who runs the city?
  Can city turn blind to some groups and still
  remain livable?

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CONTEXT

• London as a global financial hub.70 of GDP of
  UK, primarily from the CBD.
• Rich beyond taxes and liabilities.
• Students and Tourists as Sub-Citizens, despite
  being the life of the city.
• Lack of Political awareness and Feedback within
  city Governance. No motivation for good services.
  

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SHORT-TERM GOALS

• Upgrading the existing facilities.
• Innovative ways to bring resources from the
  existing system and infrastructure to public
  realm.

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LONG-TERM GOALS

• Free, Hygienic, Secure and Accessible Toilets for
  all.
• Innovative ways to bring resources from the
  existing system and infrastructure to public
  realm- emergence of a model.

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ULTIMATE GOALS

• A duplicable self sustaining model for issues of
  the city.
• Improve the livability of the city.
• Get the rich to pay!

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POTENTIAL ALLIES

• Bus, Taxi Drivers.
• Students, Volunteers, Activists, Londoners.
• Tourists
• Women, Disabled, Care-Giving Mothers, Pregnant
  Women.

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POTENTIAL OPPONENTS

• Prevailing Administrative and Political
  Structures. (Human agency Vs Structures)
• SNOBS!
• City beautiful argument! (toilets, waste bins etc
  as a thereat to the beauty defined by urban
  designers)

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UNKNOWNS

• Everybody!
• Can be Changed!
• Lets get together and make a change, and thereby
  transform ourselves from unknowns to respected
  citizens of the city.

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METHODOLOGY

• Get the students together, group assignments for
  all ULU students to survey the situation,
  generate ideas for campaign. (collective
  rationality)
• Tourist campaigns, drivers campaigns, e-mail
  databank, web-forum,

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SUSTAINABILITY

• Cultural- Brings service orientedness.
• Social- Brings people together for issue based
  MOMENTARY CONCENSUS.
• Political- Reinforces Representativeness.
• Economic- Cultural/Global city Argument.
• Environmental- Brown Agenda Green Agenda.
  Sanitation as a cross-cutting approach.

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RESOURCES

• WTO!
• BBC
• WHO