Singh believes that instead of discouraging urbanisation, "economic opportunities and modern amenities should be promoted in rural areas.
This must have rung false for audience members, who travel daily along Kampala's dirt roads, and many of whom live without access to basic amenities.
One such project in La Lima, Honduras to install solar panels on houses enabled communities to organise regular assemblies – usually at night – to discuss how to upgrade their basic amenities.
Organisations such as SPARC conducted surveys to come up with a cartography of urban poverty – how many people lived in slums, on pavements, by the railway tracks, how long they'd been living there, what basic amenities they had or lacked – that would be the first step towards rehabilitation.
"Here, we get access to better amenities as compared to the village, and I earn more," he says.
Said garage is now Studio A. Reaffirming the hotel's rock'n'roll mettle, amenities include 24-hour butler service, Jacuzzis, use of the hotel's Bentley and a "paparazzi diversion" service.
"People come [to the city] to find economic opportunity, modern amenities, access to education and to make a shift from working in agriculture to working in the service industry," says Shirish Singh, head of Practical Action's urban water, sanitation and waste programme in south Asia.
If you're living in a house of multiple occupation (HMO), with three or more unrelated people, your landlord has extra responsibilities in terms of security, fire safety, and the cleanliness of kitchen and bathroom amenities.
The relatively slow pace of housing price growth in the Sunbelt, relative to the rest of the country and relative to income growth, also implies that there has been no increase in the willingness to pay for sun-related amenities.
The bidoun forfeit the amenities that the oil-rich emirate showers on its citizens, including education.António Guterres, the current high commissioner for refugees, says more and more countries agree, at least, that statelessness is a problem; and several have taken steps to alleviate it.
Such strength is proof that Virgin America's plan to offer superior service and amenities for a slightly higher price wasn't all wrong.
