Dharavi slum case study-world cities
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- Created on: 14-02-14 11:09
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- LEDC slum-Dharavi,india
- positives of dharavi
- chores are complted in spheral groups to give a strong community sense
- 85% employement rate
- dhravi locals are generally happy
- postive recycling scheme
- residents are hardworking and some have be known to become self-made millionaires
- dharavis recycling zone
- in dharavi 80% of waste plastic is recycled compared to 23% in the u.k.
- dharavi recycles a much wider range of goods than in the u.k. including cosmetics and keyboard cases
- around 1,000,000 rubbish bags are collected from mumbai daily
- 35,000 ragpickers in mumbai trawl through the vast heaps of waste in serach of recyclable goods
- ragpickers earn around £1 a day for their work
- negatives of dharavi
- densly populated with 600,000 people living in a 2kmsq area
- extremely deprived with no sanitation
- running water is only available for 2 hours a day at 5.30
- within indias financail district and therforte very expoensive to buy property
- second largest slum in asia
- background
- formely bombay,dharavi currently has a population of 14,350,000
- known as "the gateway to india"
- was originally a fishing village
- popularised by its port
- planned developments
- plan to remove slum area and replace with 7 story tenamaents
- residents of the dharavi slums that can prove to have lived their since 1995 will recieve free housing accomodation
- new buildings will hopefully have improved infrastructure including roads,drainage systems and schools
- positives of dharavi
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