Slum

Slums Introduction 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

6.1 In The Planet of the Slums, Mike Davis using the definition made by the US Department of Labor, describes slums as “an area of dirty back streets, especially when inhabited by squalid and criminal population” (Davis: 22). Brasilmar Ferreira Nunes and Leticia Veloso, similarly explain the definition of “favelas”, as a “marginalized urban space” (Nunes & Veloso: 225). In other words, a slum is an underprivileged, underdevelopment, and often dirty and overpopulated “neighborhood.” I personally

A slum is a heavily populated urban informal settlement characterized by substandard housing and squalor. While slums differ in size and other characteristics, most lack reliable sanitation services, supply of clean water, reliable electricity, law enforcement and other basic services. Slum residences vary from shanty houses to professionally built dwellings that because of poor-quality construction or provision of services have deteriorated into slums. Main features and characteristics of the slums

status. These groups, usually termed ‘slums’, are heavily ostracised and are usually sought to be removed and stopped in their growth. Drawing from different locations as examples, I will firstly discuss how slums are established and the many complex economic, social and political issues which keep the slum alive in this modern age. There is also the matter of highlighting the way in which we define a slum and the people living within it and how this may affect slum growth. Lastly, I will make an allusion

The video The Real Slum Dogs gives insight into the lives and conflicts that occur in a large slum in India named Dharavi. The people of Dharavi are among the poorest people in the world. Although, the community of people who were shown in the film worked extremely hard physically as a whole they had very little. Theoretical perspective that was evident in this was the conflict theory. The slum of Dharavi is located right outside the thriving city of Mumbai, and this posses a problem. The city of

In the passage, “Planet of Slums” by Mike Davis, the author has a dystopic view on urbanization and argues that urban poverty is increasing and has a negative impact on the world. His dystopic vision can be written off as a society with undesirable traits such as poverty, oppression, and overcrowding. Davis’s vision on these people’s lifestyle can be compared and contrasted with Robert Neuwirth’s view of this lifestyle in his passage, “Shadow Cities” and the film “Sleep Dealer” by Alex Rivera. The

faces a major crisis in the sector of health care as nearly half of its people live in slums and unauthorised colonies without any proper disposing of their waste. (Dhananjay, 2012, Oct 4] The purpose of this report is to find out why the slum issues remain even after many years. Slums in Delhi has been around since the late 70s and it has since continued to grow in the number of the population living in slums. Slums comprise a social cluster that engenders a distinct set of health problems. With estimated

efficiently used the population tend to settle in centralised, and compact informal areas of city and town leading to creation of slums. It is often said that formation of slums is not expected with rapid urbanisation; however presence of the slums in most of the developing countries that are rapidly urbanising contradicts this statement. Fast urbanization and thick slum population intensify the difficulties of giving access to safe water and sanitation administrations. South Asia has seen a fast

The effect globalization has on the slums, informal settlements, and poverty in Cairo takes on more specific forms as seen by the impact privatization has on industries that are key sources of income for many. The Zabaleen, who live in makeshift settlements on agricultural land at the western and northern fringes of Cairo metropolitan region, have been the traditional garbage collectors and recyclers in Cairo for decades (Fahmi, 2005). It is estimated in 1997, the Zabaleen collected up to 3,000 tonnes

Personal Analysis Essay 2 Midterm Portfolio I don’t believe that any singular person can fully describe their identity to encompass both past and future. Identity only exists in the now. How our background influences our responses to external stimuli constantly changes as new experiences shape past memories. That being said, it may seem that we inherently define our own paths. However, our paths are influenced by a myriad of factors including family, culture, relationships, or circumstance. As