Building Castles in Air: Housing Scheme for Bombay’s Slum-Dwellers Author(s): Gurbir Singh and P. K. Das Source: Economic and Political Weekly‚ Vol. 30‚ No. 40 (Oct. 7‚ 1995)‚ pp. 2477-2481 Published by: Economic and Political Weekly Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4403298 Accessed: 08-04-2015 15:55 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service
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INFORMATION Maji Mazuri is a social economic development program that was created in 1984 by Wanjiku Kironyo and based in Nairobi‚ Kenya. The program was initially developed in order to help women and children in Mathare Valley‚ the second largest slum in East Africa. Wanjiku Kironyo who was a family marital therapist set up office in the Mathare Valley and began counselling women. The women she reached out to suffered from severe depression and other psychological syndromes caused by single parenthood
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09/02/2012 Many problems exist for Less Economically Developed Countries’ cities all around the world. These may range from the favelas of South America to shanty towns present in Asia. Haphazard growth is one of the greatest difficulty for these slums and governments are striving to find practical and efficient solutions for shanty towns‚ such as the Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro. The UN needs to assist LEDCs in diminishing the issue at hand. There are several potential methods that could be adopted
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the 1917 and 1947 plans were slum clearance‚ public housing and expressways. It is important not only to explain each of the main issues‚ but also explain how federalism played a role in St. Louis. Slum Clearance Slum clearance according to a 2006 New Mexico Statute is‚ “acquisition of a slum area or a blighted area or portion thereof; demolition and removal of buildings and improvements; installation‚ construction‚ reconstruction‚ maintenance
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population. This high dependency among the city’s population causes poverty‚ especially among the lower income groups in the city. Under the pressure of its rapidly swelling population‚ this megacity faces rising real estate prices‚ exponentially growing slums‚ unemployment‚ exploitation‚ corruption‚ poor quality housing facilities‚ inadequate clean water supply and poor sanitation. These are all similar challenges experienced by other mega-cities. Modern Dhaka is the centre of political‚ cultural and economic
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enjoy‚ like cars clothes candy drugs television and entertainment. Eventually large slums develop around or inside of the cities‚ in these slums; large groups of poor and uneducated people end up living together in poverty. The World Bank met in 1999 to address these problems; in their report they write "
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planning service use and the barriers in accessing family planning services among urban poor women in Pakistan. Data were collected from a household survey of 5338 married women of reproductive age (15-45) from slum areas of six cities. The use of family planning services by women in urban slums is strongly linked to individual and household socioeconomic factors. In particular‚ women were ten times more likely to have used a family planning service if her husband approved. This research has highlighted
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sheeting and wooden planks)‚ by degradation of the local ecosystem (for example‚ erosion and poor water quality and sanitation) and by severe social problems. United Nations Human Settlements Programme (2008) differentiate slum settlement to squatter settlement. The word slum
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physical size of the towns‚ cities and other larger urban settlements in a country or a region. Process whereby settlements grow in terms of population number and/or physical size Megacity: A giant metropolis with a population of at least 10 million Slums: A residential area that is physically and socially deteriorated and in which satisfactory family life is impossible. Squatters: Shelters with poor structural quality and developed without legal claims to the land and/or permission from the concerned
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Informal cites or slums are cities that are set up without the government’s permission but are fighting for their place in society. The government is often weak and at odds with the people which leads to a need for them to exert their ability to shape their own lives regardless of the rules and impact the world around them. GraceLand by Chris Abani‚ The Children of Sisyphus by James Patterson‚ and “City of God” all shoe the positive and negative sides of trying to shape one’s life while living in
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