bleue

ligne

ligne de collines et ciel

froid bleu

bleues

on devine derrière

qui vivent

là

steppes autres collines steppes et vents

au-delà d’Ulaan

ceux qui là

qui vivent

exode exile exit

glace

bleues les collines et

neige

gels

foyers

craque

et la terre

et au-delà

là présentes derrière

là

au-delà

steppes collines nues

ligne des collines nues

Ulaan

où vivent

qui ont quitté l’horizontal des vents

des steppes

l’espace la largeur le large le vaste

l’ouate des feutres

l’odeur du mouton et canasson

cuir crotte herbes

pour

le dense vertical moellons

l’étroit la fumée fossile le bitume la boue

les jours s’en vont comme des chevaux sauvages dans les collines disait
Bukowski

bleues

glace

qui vivent

Ulaan

Ulaan

où es-tu

où es-tu terre gelée

galops

herbes herbes herbes

qui sont

en nous

Ulaan

Ulaan

où es-tu terre gelée

qui est

dessous

dessous

dessous

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The UB Borderline reportage investigates the periurban areas of the Mongolian capital city laying the gaze where the relation between human and environment becomes manifest. The borderline is meant both as geographical and social, as they usually match. These areas are the result of recent urban immigration stirred by climate change, desertification and new social models.

Recent urban immigration in the capital city of Mongolia brought to the formation of periurban areas with high level of unemployed and high poverty income levels. In this contest, kids are often forced to work and many do not attend school.

The periurban areas, called “Gers District”, have developed without a planned strategy or infrastructural services as roads, water, electricity, sewers. At the beginning nomads settled with their Yurts, and this has been their luck compared with other cities slums, but now many are building houses.

In December the outside temperature it is normally around -30 Celsius. Coal or wood, which is very expensive, are the only heating sources for all the periurban areas of UB. Air pollution caused by the smoke of burned coal of the four power plants and of the stoves of Gers often causes pulmonary diseases.

Poverty brought around 300 people, of which almost 50 are children from 5 to 18, to live collecting and differentiating waste in the garbage dump. 100 of them have their homes build in the dump.

4 people can live in a 2,50 x 3 meters home made of wood, plastic and bed nets.

Malnutrition, lack of hygiene and pollution are the main causes of TB. Therefore TB disease is closely connected with social welfare.

Matteo Gozzi