Dr. Kenneth A. Pickar

Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering

E105: Product Design for the Developing World

Theo Schilderman. Building Bridges with the Grassroots: Scaling up through knowledge sharing. ITDG PDF

                 Information poverty in slums and participatory development projects

 

George McRobie. Services for the Urban Poor: A People-centred Approach PDF

                 How to design participatory programs to provide services to slum dwellers

 

Community-Based Technologies for Domestic Wastewater Treatment and Reuse: Options for urban agriculture. The International Development Research Centre. PDF
                 Wastewater treatment and reuse in urban environments

 

“The brown revolution” The Economist May 9, 2002 HTML

                 Information on urbanization – see Caltech e-journal passwords from a Caltech-networked computer for access

Urbanization

Readings

Contact Information:

Instructor: Ken Pickar, x4185
TA:
Jeff Kranski