Slum

FROM SLUM ARCHITECTURE Ar. Kamal Passi , Dr. Gaurav Raheja Abstract While the authorities struggle to find ways to cater to the problem of slums, thousands of shelters are being built daily without any major outside support or government scheme. If there is any possible access to land, people build homes and improvements are made over time. This quality must be identified as strength, and harnessed if India is to provide decent housing to its growing urban population. Providing Slums with…

the world. Favelas, as locals call them, are huge slum areas located in Brazil. Home to 11 million people around the country, there are over 1600 Favelas just in Sao Paulo and these Favelas are only expanding. What are some size and characteristics of Brazilian Slums?: Favelas populate a minimal amount of space for the amount of people living in slums. Favelas in Brazil contain many 3 story buildings because people sell their roof to other slum dwellers and give them permission to build their…

move to city slums, the slums offer a better life than the home they left behind. They are many social issues that people face as the city slums grows in size such as over crowed population, lack of housing, polluted water, lack of electricity and food. Although the wealthy are affected by the over crowed population and traffic congestion in the city, the wealthy will never be affected by condition the poor people experience as they are deprived of the basic need in the city slums. The people…

Vaux, “The first published definition of ‘slum’ reportedly occurs in Vaux’s 1812 vocabulary of the flash language, where it is synonymous with ‘racket’ or ‘criminal trade’. By the cholera years of the 1830s and 1840s, however, the poor were living in slums rather than practicing them.”(Davis 12). Have these dwellings evolved into a once social lifestyle of a town into an unsanitary, overcrowded and underserved cesspool? The transmutation of the slums on globalization is at an all time high.…

Thus, in that circumstance, urban slums have become a common destination for rural to urban migrants.The overall physical environment in an urban area is determined by some specific facilities such as housing, sanitation, sewerage, drainage, drinking water supply, gas supply, electricity…

The way the movie Slumdog Millionaire portrays urban poverty has been one of the most heated controversies by glamorizing the poor, poverty, and the slums of India. Although the portrayal of the lives in urban slums is the nature of the film, this story of an orphan from the slum ends up raising awareness all over the world on the issue of poverty far better than the documentary films or the articles that we read in the newspaper. While the movie got famous in…

Slumdog Millionaire, a movie by Danny Boyle, set in Mumbai, tells the story of Jamal Malik, a contestant on India’s version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’. Jamal was born in the slums of Mumbai with little education and was on his way to win the grand prize on the game show. Whilst on the show, he is suspected of cheating but little do his accusers know that Jamal’s life experience provides him with essential clues to answer each question. The movie alternates between flashbacks from Jamal’s…

the radio or through the sounds of animals and nature. However, the sound in certain locations can also offer a glimpse into the context of the space and illustrate the deeper issues taking place. Protests in Japan, loudspeakers in Nigeria and the slums of India all offer this glimpse; by listening to their soundscapes, one can discover something about the different locations and how these sounds have different meanings…

illegal immigrants in these slums afford luxuries, such as DirecTV and flat screens, but a middle class family –such as my own- cannot? Is the government helping them pay for such luxuries? Where does the government get this money from? In the article written by…

work outside economic system legally, working outside the tax system as informal workers. Earlier it was realised that slum was not an inescapable urban future. In 1958 almost one third of Cuban population was residing in shantytowns. Huge wave was started for rehabilitation of the population. In third world countries, Nehru, Abdul Nasser and Sukarno also promised to rebuild slums and new houses. But this idea remained totally unclear because governments didn't pay any attention to address this…