Urban Squatters and Slums Settlements: What is the difference? Squatters include those who settles on public land under regulation by the government, in order to get title to it. Types of slum 1. Degraded old planned urban areas 2. Unplanned informal squatter settlements2.
Unplanned informal squatter settlements Most slum dwellers in the developing world live in this type of slum 4. What makes a residential area a slum? The low income poverty of who live there? The living conditions? The lack of basic urban services? Other aspects? UN-Habitat definition of Slums: neglected parts of cities, in which living conditions are appallingly poorare appallingly poor 6. Number of slum dwellers million million??
MDG: improve conditions for million slum dwellers?? ISSUES Why should slum dwellers be given tenure on valuable land in a city which would be better used for commercial development? ISSUES Why should single story or low rise upgrading be permitted on valuable central city land, which could be developed to a higher density? Does public money need to be used?
ISSUES What is the value to the citizens who do not live in slums, when upgrading slumswhen upgrading slums rather than demolishing them? Issues Location: Is resettlement to distant locations far from city centersfar from city centers Is it in the interest of the slum dwellers?
Issues What is the role of basic urban infrastructure in slum improvement? Sanitation excreta, sullage, solid waste Access and drains Water supplyWater supply But what about improving the houses? Do we have good technical answers? What are slum settlements? Urban slums are settlements, neighborhoods, or city regions that cannot provide the basic living conditions necessary for its inhabitants, or slum dwellers, to live in a safe and healthy environment.
What are the impacts of informal settlement? These include pollution, deforestation, flooding, waste of agricultural lands and the like. Informal settlement also referred to as a shanty town or squatter settlement has been defined in various ways depending on the planning and legal framework of a country where it exists.
How can we improve Dharavi? The plan to improve Dharavi is called Vision Mumbai. This involves replacing squatter settlement housing with high quality high-rise tower blocks of flats. The Indian government also wants to add basic services, more schools, health centres, shops, better roads and more jobs. What is the future of Dharavi?
The land upon which Dharavi is built is next to Mumbai's financial district. This makes it a prime target for redevelopment. How can squatter settlements be improved in Rio? In Brazil, squatter settlements have been improved through self-help schemes. Constructing ordinary places: Place-making in urban informal settlements in Mexico. Abstract Observers from a variety of disciplines agree that informal settlements account for the majority of housing in many cities of the global South.
Urban informal settlements, usually defined by … Expand. Squatters or tenants: the commercialization of unauthorized housing in Nairobi. Abstract The conventional view of squatting suggests that the squatter builds his own house.
In this paper we shall present fieldwork data from Nairobi which is totally at variance with this view. We … Expand.
The term slum is a loose definition of the environs and behavior of the poor. Isolated from the remainder of society, slum residents are presumed to live a deviant life either by preference or … Expand. Within these, the final projects were selected based on the location, population and area, number of dwelling units and the role of community organizers and NGOs. The selected settlements were analyzed using the techniques, mapping, observation, focus group discussions, photo documentation and visual survey for assessing the performance of each housing projects.
This step involved analysis of settlement pattern along with their demographic and social profiling. The most important information gathered during surveys is the type of housing in the slums. The survey also included information like land ownership pattern, physical infrastructure adequacy. Based on the assessment each settlement was scored on five variables with twenty indicators.
The city lies on the east coast railways connecting it to major areas - Howrah, Chennai, Paradip and Talcher. In Cuttack municipality was formed. Following independence, in the capital shifted to Bhubaneshwar.
In with the establishments of large scale industries Chowdwar was formed. The major reasons for the growth of slums in the city are the increase in the employment opportunities, destruction by the super cyclone in Odisha and feminine. The slum improvement approaches in the city were taken in three components — slum re-location, slum re-construction and slum networking.
CDPA is known as the urban commercial complex which has led the region as an economic exchange zone. As per the census of India, CMC has an area of There are in total slums in CMC out of which are identified. The identified slum is defined as a compact area of at least 60 — 70 house holds or population of poorly built congested tenements, in an unhygienic environment with insufficient infrastructure and deficient in proper sanitary and drinking facilities.
Out of the slums identified within the CMC are authorized supporting 98, people and 83 are unauthorized accommodating The land tenure in Cuttack is in the form of patta and co-pattadar system. Various central and state government slum interventions undertook by the state and central government and implemented by CMC in the city are analyzed. Land litigation is a major issue leading to failure of redevelopment and relocation projects.
The acceptability of the relocation project is good as the city is small in areal extent and the connectivity is good. The Pilgrim Road Table 1 is selected for the case study due to the maximum implementation of the programme and higher density.
The slum is located at the central core part of the city. It is an unauthorized slum developed on government land. A settlement pattern is a linear form due to canal. It is surrounded by residential locality and street vendors along the road. The settlement is 1. The slope of the settlement is towards the canal. The houses are structurally not sound and tilted towards the canal because of the soil and topographical condition.
The rear part of the house opens up towards the canal. The contaminated stagnant water leads to mosquito breeding and other hazardous diseases.
The profile of slum dwellers is that they are majorly rickshaw pollers, daily labourers and petty traders. Their livelihood is dependent on such jobs because of a lack of literacy and less formal job opportunities. With the current scenario of the DFID intervention, there has been a lot of loopholes in the development and maintenance. Similarly, with an increase in population and dwelling unit density, there was the stress of the social and physical infrastructure which was one of the major concerns.
The main reason for selection of this slum for VAMBAY case study is because this slum pockets consist of a major group of slums which has 7 different slum pockets which were segregated as per caste. Before this, the slum dwellers were majorly involved with political ruling parties for the up-gradation of city facilities and slum settlement benefits.
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