IN_SITU - An investigation of functions and future strategies for Leprosy Colony
The world is urbanizing and many cities in developing countries are unable to accommodate the masses of new city residents. Slums are an immediate response to this process, and in India over 50% of the urban population lives in slums. Different ideas and methods of slum reduction have been present i...
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| Formato: | Second cycle, A2E |
| Lenguaje: | sueco Inglés |
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2012
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| Acceso en línea: | https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/3855/ |
| Sumario: | The world is urbanizing and many cities in developing countries
are unable to accommodate the masses of new city residents.
Slums are an immediate response to this process, and in India
over 50% of the urban population lives in slums. Different ideas
and methods of slum reduction have been present in India
during the 20th century, which started off with a focus on slum
clearance. As pure slum clearance eventually turned out to be
unsuccessful in practise as slum dwellers remained unable to
integrate in the formal housing market, but simply rebuilt their
huts illegally, clearance in combination with resettling on a new
location instead became the prevailing idea. This method is
still in practice in India, and pre-fabricated residential buildings
(often in form of multi-storey slab blocks) are built by the
government all over the country. Through the work of many
NGO’s, new ways of handling urban slums are however coming.
Slum upgrading where the existing structures are upgraded insitu
in collaboration with the slum community is an increasingly
used method, although still in very small scale. SPARC, a major
actor on the Indian NGO scene, has for example tried to use
these methods in a slum upgrading project in Pune where only
selected houses of poor quality were demolished and rebuilt,
and the rest was upgraded. The problem is that these alternative
ideas of slum rehabilitation are still rare, and the dominating
methods of pre-fabricated, multi-storey projects are generally
unsuccessful. On the wide-ranging level, one could say that they
are unsustainable; socially (because they alter the slum dwellers’
social networks), economically (because they are not adapted
to slum dwellers’ economic situation and income-generating
strategies) and environmentally (because they don’t take existing
structures and materials in consideration).
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