Urbanisation Mumbai
- Created by: L. P.
- Created on: 29-05-13 10:35
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- Urbanisation Mumbai
- 60% of urbanisation is due to natural increase
- 22% due to migration
- 18% due to expansion of administrative boundaries
- Mumbai
- 6th most populated metropolitan area in the world
- 20 million people, density of 27,000 per sq km
- Attracts rural migrants seeking poverty
- Attracts those away from poverty in villages
- Fragile infrastructure is collapsing due to pressure from population
- Mumbai slums house 60% of population
- Slum clearance policies
- 70s- provision of civic amenities (water, electricity)
- 76- enlarge area for lower/middle class houses to be built. Upper class homes were built instead.
- 80s- Slum upgrading, giving plots of land to slum households. Targeted 10-12% of slum pop.
- 80s- Developers allocate 20% or more of housing projects to affordable housing.
- Slum rehabilitation 95'-slums demolished and lucrative tower blocks are built on the land.
- Benefits of SRA
- 100,000 free apartments built
- Moves people into permanent housing
- New dignity and peaceful
- Costs of SRA
- Poor people not able to afford it
- May become ghettos
- Slum dwellers may lose self-sufficient
- Benefits of SRA
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