Mubia case study

Case Study Mubia - capital city in India 

Housing - 

• 54% people live in slums
• Average - 4.5m2 of living space per person
• overcrowding and cramped conditions
• Biggest slum - Dharavi - 800,000 people

Transport

• Fairly compact city - people dont have to walk far to work
• 2% people owning car
• 55% walk to work
• still one of most congested cities
• 30,000 people die crossing railway tracks/ falling of commuter trains

Water supply and pollution

• Mumbia suffers severe water shortages --> inadaquat/bad infrastructure (leaking pipes) 650 million litres of water lost each day
• some sum dwellers spend 20% off their money on water

Informal economy

• 68% of workforce employed in Informal sector in Mumbia - lack of education - people coming from slums across city

Pollution:

• Dangerous and very bad air pollution
• World health organization recommened limit for PM10 (particulate that cause cause athsma and brochitus cancer) is 20mm
• Mubia has 132 micrograms per m3 - dangerously high