The word “slum” is often used to describe informal settlements within cities that have inadequate housing and squalid, miserable living conditions. They are often overcrowded, with many people crammed into very small living spaces, lack basic municipal services such as water, sanitation, waste collection, storm drainage, street lighting, paved sidewalks. Like all informal settlements, housing in slums is built on land that the occupant does not have a legal claim to and without any urban planning or adherence to zoning regulations.Today, more than one billion people in the world live in slums. In the developing world, one out of every three people living in cities lives in a slum. Other common names for slums include squatter settlements, favelas, kampong, ghetto, basti or shanti town.
ACTIVITY 1- The nature of slums and squatter settlements
One of the key characteristics of housing in mega-cities is the development of slums or squatter settlements. Click on the link below to read the information on the Cities Alliance website.
One of the key characteristics of housing in mega-cities is the development of slums or squatter settlements. Click on the link below to read the information on the Cities Alliance website.
In a word doc, answer the following questions.
1.What are the key features of slums?
2.What are the common names for slums in Brazil, Indonesia, Pakistan and Bangladesh?
3. Why do slums develop?
4.List the push/pull factors in rural-urban migration?
5.What influence does governance have on slum development?
1.What are the key features of slums?
2.What are the common names for slums in Brazil, Indonesia, Pakistan and Bangladesh?
3. Why do slums develop?
4.List the push/pull factors in rural-urban migration?
5.What influence does governance have on slum development?
Activity 2- Watch the following you tube video and answer the questions below
- What is the population of Mumbai?
- What proportion of Mumbai’s population lives in slums?
- How many people are estimated to live in Mumbai’s largest slum?
- Where is Dharavi located within the city?
- What is being proposed for the slum site?