Habitat And Urbanisation

Recent developments in plans for Dharavi and for the airport slums in Mumbai

This is the fourth in a series of papers chronicling the negotiations over plans to redevelop Dharavi, Mumbai’s vast informal settlement. It also describes current plans to redevelop land beside Mumbai’s international airport, where more than 85,000 households live on a 110-hectare (275 acres) site. In both these settlements, each with populations equivalent to a sizeable city, the government plans appear to be driven more by an intent to support commercial
developments than to address the needs of their residents.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2010
Jockin Arputham, Sheela Patel
Environment & Urbanization
22
2
501-504
Tags:
Habitat And Urbanisation, Slums, Mumbai, Air Transport, Slum Upgrading, Urban Planning, Rehabilitation, Displacement, Urban Housing
Habitat And Urbanisation

Planning sustainable cities: UN-HABITAT practices and perspectives

This publication presents a strong argument for innovating urban planning to address the contemporary challenges of rapid urbanization and poverty.

Publication Date: 
30/09/2010
UN-Habitat
Tags:
Urbanisation, India, Global, Public Participation, Urban Planning, Slum Upgrading, Urban Environment, Climate Change, Economic Development, Infrastructure Development, Urban Development, Habitat And Urbanisation
Poverty

A RAY of hope for slum-dwellers

BHUBANESWAR: For a slum-dweller, owning a concrete house is a dream!

Publication Date: 
02/09/2010
New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Orissa (Odisha), Slums, People, Slum Upgrading, Poverty, Lowcost Housing, Habitat And Urbanisation, Bhubaneswar, Calcutta (D)
People

Pavements for slums, roads for kids

So much for chief minister Ashok Chavan

Publication Date: 
16/08/2010
Daily News Analysis (Mumbai)
Tags:
Slums, Roads, Children, Mumbai, Maharashtra, Slum Upgrading, Municipal Corporations
Habitat And Urbanisation

Urban funds for slum makeover

Jamshedpur, July 27: It is a Rs 15.01-crore promise of better life for some 6,000 underprivileged denizens of the steel city.

Publication Date: 
28/07/2010
Telegraph (Ranchi)
Tags:
Habitat And Urbanisation, Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), Slums, Slum Upgrading, Sewage, Solid Waste, Jharkhand, Jamshedpur, Telegraph (Ranchi)
Habitat And Urbanisation

Good future awaits slum-dwellers

BHUBANESWAR: Even as eviction drive in the city assumes high pitch, for around 11 slums the future harbours good news. They would be relocated at Tangarahuda near Satichoura and settled on an expanse of over 14 acres laced with basic amenities.

Publication Date: 
07/07/2010
New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Habitat And Urbanisation, Slums, Slum Upgrading, Municipal Corporations, Orissa (Odisha), Cuttack (D), New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
Habitat And Urbanisation

Dharavi: Makeover or takeover?

Dharavi in Mumbai exemplifies what is most ugly and what is most inspiring about slum life in a city. How should it be redeveloped to remove the ugliness and yet retain its community spirit, enterprise, ambitions and hope?

Publication Date: 
12/06/2010
Shirish B Patel
Economic and Political Weekly
45
24
47
Tags:
Urban Water Supply, Habitat And Urbanisation, Migration, Displacement, Urban Development, Urban Housing, Slums, Slum Upgrading, Urban Sanitation, Compensation, Poverty, Supreme Court, India, Delhi, Mumbai, Economic and Political Weekly, Infrastructure Development, Shirish B Patel
Habitat And Urbanisation

Now, MHADA proposes to develop one of five Dharavi sectors

Mumbai After being relegated to cold storage for some time, the Dharavi Redevelopment Project will explore yet another model. In a first, the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) has proposed that it would like to develop one of the five sectors in the 2-sq-km slum sprawl on its own instead of handing it to a developer.

Publication Date: 
08/06/2010
Indian Express (Mumbai)
Tags:
Habitat And Urbanisation, Slums, Slum Upgrading, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Indian Express (Mumbai)
Habitat And Urbanisation

Slum rehab: DDA, MCD to take lessons from Dharavi

Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna on Tuesday asked officials of the Delhi Development Authority, Municipal Corporation of Delhi and other stakeholders to conduct an in-depth study on slum rehabilitation.

A team comprising members of these agencies will also go to Mumbai to study Bombay Municipal Corporation efforts to rehabilitate Dharavi, Asia

Publication Date: 
05/05/2010
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Habitat And Urbanisation, Slums, Slum Upgrading, Rehabilitation, Municipal Corporations, Delhi, Mumbai, Indian Express (New Delhi), Delhi Development Authority (DDA)
Habitat And Urbanisation

Rs 34 crore housing scheme for slum-dwellers

Yamunanagar: The Integrated Housing and Slum Development Programme, a Central government scheme, has brought a new hope for slum dwellers living in unhygienic conditions and deprived of basic amenities in the district.

Publication Date: 
07/04/2010
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Habitat And Urbanisation, Lowcost Housing, Slums, Slum Upgrading, Haryana, Yamunanagar

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