Need For A Socio Economic Study

The first step taken by the Councils was to carry out Comprehensive Redevelopment. This means demolishing and rebuilding slums. Many slums were removed from areas such as Gorbals, and roads new roads were also built to improve transport links. To re-house all of the people made homeless from the demolishing of the slums, many cheap tower blocks were erected for people to live in. However these came with their own set of new problems.

According to Newman (2008), housing of the poor has to allow for economic independence and self-care while providing a safe and adequate place to live. The debate about decent housing alone is sufficient to provide a healthier living environment has its roots in the late 1920s, when the unhealthy environment of the slums was associated with numerous social ills. The hands-on approach of the housing and social service agencies was

During my first quarter of running start, I took intro to sociology and I had a major midterm project. When we were aquatinted with our members I took initiative to make sure we could all communicate and work online to reduce the number of times we needed to meet so that the students who had trouble with transportation could carpool with members of our group who lived near the college. We decided to spend a few minutes after class on discussing the project and whilst doing so I could see that a particular member of our group, Alex would doubt her ability to work on the project. I made sure that she knew that having her in our group was crucial to successes and that I am open to helping her overcome her doubts. We had conversations about struggling

The UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) define the characteristics of slum housing as nondurable drinking water, insufficient domestic space, lack of drinking water, lack of sanitation, and tenure security. Based on this definition provided by the MDG, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Cuba can be classified as countries that are on track with the reduction of slum housing, for example. On the other hand, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, and Paraguay are stabilizing. All other Latin American countries and Caribbean countries are at risk or off track (Smith 76). Although Brazil’s condition is stabilizing, there is still a heavy amount of improvement necessary before we can deny the significance of the issue. Sao Paulo is still plagued by the slum houses and the favelas and awareness needs to be constantly shed on this issue. There is still a lot of work to be done and solely because the conditions may seem to be “stabilizing,” it is still not safe to assume that Brazil will be alright. The housing conditions of Brazil need to be more than alright, they have to be more than satisfactory; the conditions need to reach high levels of success so that the cities and the citizens living within will

The author Mike Davis has done countless research on the topic of urban poverty. In his studies he collects and receives his information from other sources. Perhaps this is the reason why he has a negative view on slums. This is illustrated in his piece “Planet of Slums” as he discusses the politics, urban development, and methods within the slums population. According to Davis, slums and urban poverty have and will continue to significantly increase. While doing so, the gap in exclusion and inequality will grow. As a result, this will weaken urban elites in their work to utilize cities as engines of growth. Slums and slum population are classified as those who are living below the poverty lines, all while, being associated with overcrowding, having poor or informal housing, inadequate access to safe water and sanitation, and insecurity of tenure. This is being recognized as an international phenomenon. To emphasis this phenomenon, approximately half of the slum population in most

In the first part of the article Major Brown discuss development in the world were people constantly are moving into cities. Major Brown explains that the growth of cities and megacities in general will happen in their slums, and that future conflicts will take place were

Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums, predicts the direction in which the world’s cities are headed, and how the changes in living conditions are only going to deteriorate if certain trends continue. The title of his book explains Davis’s vision for the future of cities as he feels there is enough evidence pointing towards an exponential rise in slum populations across the world’s largest cities. Additionally, he expresses his opinion on many issues regarding the rapid rise in developing cities’ slum populations, although he offers very one-sided arguments geared towards those who feel the current system is causing more problems rather than improving current conditions. This causes Davis to overlook the problems of slums as resolvable through different modes of assistance such as international aid programs. Instead, he views aid programs as the root cause of imbalance created during industrialization. Throughout the book, Davis presents information that confirms his preconceptions towards the slums. Therefore, all the evidence that is presented by him portrays confirmation bias as Davis fails to mention anything about the resolution of the problem of the growing number of slums and instead sees this problem as unavoidable. Particularly, Davis’ writing, although intended for the general population, is more geared towards critics who have similar ideas. Instead of providing the means through which the economy could be improved and the problem of slums could be resolved, it is

In Slumming by Chad Heap the author describes the true reality of slumming, and how it was more wide spread than what it appear just in the surface. Heap defines slumming, as he concentrate on cities like Chicago and New York, that were provide with entertainment. This entertainment would come from immigrants, blacks, gays and bohemians during a period of large scale immigration in this cities. The author explains in detail the culture of slumming, as well as how it helps to produce the sex/gender/racial system. Heap also argues how the different participants in slumming affect one another. The impact between the different interactions among different races, classes and gender was as well discussed in detail by the author. Finally Heap

In this respect, it is worthy of mention that such a situation with the migration is the result of the recent trend in the world economy which is characterized by processes which are generally called globalization. The process of globalization is overwhelming and involves practically all countries of the world with rare exceptions which

# The mission of the Church is modeled on the divine missions of our Trinitarian GOD, the mission of the Son and the mission of the Holy Spirit. The church’s identity comes from modeling the divine missions of the Son and Spirit, whose mission Christians are called upon to share with the world. The Son and Spirit were sent into the world to rescue the world and bring it into union with GOD. So “the church is missionary by her very nature” (#2).

In the beginning of the book, Sharkey mentioned the idea that people are usually stuck in destitute areas for multiple generations. The inheritance of disadvantaged conditions same applies with slum dwellers in Bangalore. The study “Stuck in Place: Investigating Social Mobility in 14 Bangalore Slums” by Krishna found that majority of slum dwellers have lived in slum communities, for more than four consecutive generations in the same living conditions. There are myriad of factors that contribute to the noticeable inheritance of disadvantage living, the most notable one mentioned by Sharkey is preference. Since India has a system of stratification as a part of the social structure of the society, the study found that people who live in slums prefer to be in places that share familiar contextual environment. Venturing outside the community borders is not

It is observed from the studies that the SL approach is very flexible and is adaptable to almost every situation and geographical entity. It does not require formal structural planning. It is however very participatory. Indebt knowledge of the urban poor is required. If there is something SL approach brings out so clear, it is the uniqueness of every individual, household, community and country. It is a people centered approach. Therefore it does not promote top down solutions to solve poverty situation in a country or community. An understanding of the urban poor as observed in the studies means coming to their level and interacting with them to know what asset they have and their vulnerabilities.

Migration variations include south to south migrants, south to north migrants, massive internal and transnational migration, slum dwellers, illegal settlements, these grounds, territorial fragmentation, internal displacement, communities and perilous locations.

In the countryside of many African countries, there is a lack of sanitation and an increasing rate of desertification. The lack of sanitation in Africa is increasing as people have nowhere to take their waste. Therefore they just dump it on the street and this affects sanitation and hygiene within African countries. Many of these places are called slums and they are full of tiny unhygienic homes that are falling apart and they are inhabited by really poor and ill people. These slums can be located on the edge of cities as this is where they thrive. There are hardly any opportunities in slums and jobs are virtually impossible to find. There is basically no proper education, no shops, no health care and no clean water supply. Therefore people move and we call this push factors. They move because of famine, drought, natural disasters, education, healthcare and many more points, which can be viewed below (source). Desertification is also making Africa 's soil conditions very bad and this problem is slowly worsening. This means that farmers have to take their animals to a good piece of land and it means that they do not have enough to sell. At the moment, millions of people are moving from rural life in Africa to urban. For example, 325 million people live in urban settlements in sub-Saharan Africa and in the next few decades it will reach one 1 billion. This is due to urban migration. The proportion of Kenyans living in urban settlements has also gone down from 34% in 2001 to

A Slum refers to informal settlements within urban areas or cities. The informal settlements depict inadequate housing and miserable condition with reference to living standards (Meade p 43). In the slums, numerous individuals seek housing facilities within small living spaces. The slums also lack basic local authority services such as sanitation, collection of waste, water, drainage systems, street lighting, and emergency roads. Most slums also lack schools, hospital, and public places that might offer adequate environment for social amenities. The experience of France illustrates the essence of slums within the modern society (Oberti p 58). Crime and unemployment are on the rise within the slums because of the poor