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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| author | Bratel, Johanna Hellqvist, Stina |
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| description | 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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| spelling | RepoSLU38552012-04-20T14:24:55Z https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/3855/ IN_SITU - An investigation of functions and future strategies for Leprosy Colony Bratel, Johanna Hellqvist, Stina Landscape architecture 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). In Bangalore in Karnataka, southern India, the number of slum dweller is lower than the national average, but still high enough to involve around two million people. Bangalore is a segregated city with remains of separation from colonial times. Gated communities and secure shopping malls arise next to small slum pockets. As the “high-tech” capital of India, it is rapidly expanding, and a new metro line is under construction. 1,200 of Bangalore’s slum dwellers live in Leprosy Colony, an old leprosy slum close to the central railway station. The settlement is old and overcrowded and lacks sanitary facilities and clean water. However, the slum also displays some fine qualities in terms of variation, flexibility, human scale, street life and social capital, as well as 40% stable, permanent buildings which could be upgraded rather than demolished. The aim of the thesis is to gain a greater understanding of the use, functions and potential improvements of slum settlements, with the focus on Leprosy Colony. It intends to look at slum rehabilitation issues from a planner’s perspective, of public space and of the role and layout of a ‘non-planned’ settlement. The project have been carried out through a differentiated methodological approach of literature analysis; observation; documentation; interviews and proposal work, where the literature analysis and proposal work were performed mainly in Sweden, and observation, documentation and interviews were carried out mainly in India. The proposal work resulted in a slum upgrading proposal for Leprosy Colony, IN_SITU, built up by six conceptual strategies; Improved connectivity; rail and road bridging structures; reinforced network of public realm; a flexible anti-flood system; incremental housing; framework for neighborhood expansion. These form a proposal of a flexible character, which takes its departure in the existing conditions and possibilities of the slum. 2012-02-07 Second cycle, A2E NonPeerReviewed application/pdf swe https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/3855/1/Bratel_et_al_120102.pdf Bratel, Johanna and Hellqvist, Stina, 2011. IN_SITU - An investigation of functions and future strategies for Leprosy Colony. Second cycle, A2E. Alnarp: (LTJ, LTV) > Landscape Architecture (until 121231) <https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/view/divisions/4813.html> urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-s-915 eng |
| spellingShingle | Landscape architecture Bratel, Johanna Hellqvist, Stina IN_SITU - An investigation of functions and future strategies for Leprosy Colony |
| title | IN_SITU - An investigation of functions and future strategies for Leprosy Colony |
| title_full | IN_SITU - An investigation of functions and future strategies for Leprosy Colony |
| title_fullStr | IN_SITU - An investigation of functions and future strategies for Leprosy Colony |
| title_full_unstemmed | IN_SITU - An investigation of functions and future strategies for Leprosy Colony |
| title_short | IN_SITU - An investigation of functions and future strategies for Leprosy Colony |
| title_sort | in_situ - an investigation of functions and future strategies for leprosy colony |
| topic | Landscape architecture |
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