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Urbanisation and Urban Villages: An Overview of Slum Communities in India
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In 2011, over 65 million people lived in slumsSlumsin urban IndiaUrban India. A slumSlums is an informal settlementInformal Settlement that largely consists of dilapidated housingDilapidated housing, small living area, without adequate access to clean and potable drinking water, sanitationSanitation and unstable renting agreement. Within these slumSlums settlements exist real people and communities whose lives revolve around the nexus of urban (in)formal economy, with hopes and dreams for a better future for themselves and their next generation, as they take decisions to out-migrate from underdeveloped rural areas. These informal and yet vibrant communities often become the backbone of urbanUrban economies. Despite a lack of basic amenities, these settlements provide affordable housingHousing to a significantly large share of slumSlums dwellers in India’sIndiacitiesCities. This chapter reviews academic literature along six major themes to summarise the accomplishments so far, and existing gaps that need further attention. These include the following: (1) Effects of GlobalisationGlobalization and the Neoliberal Economy in Housing Crises and GrowthGrowthof SlumsSlums in India, (2) Neoliberal Economy and Wage Inequality, (3) Changing Patterns of Economy—From Formal to Informal, (4) Rural–Urban MigrationUrban migration and the Role of Urban-centric Economic Bias, (5) Livability in Urban IndiaUrban India and Declining Quality of Life and (6) Methodological Focus in Urban SlumSlums Scholarship in India. This chapter concludes with suggestions for under-researched lines of work with the hope of a spatially informed policyPolicy intervention.
Urbanisation and Urban Villages: An Overview of Slum Communities in India
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3634-7703
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4135-4097
In 2011, over 65 million people lived in slumsSlumsin urban IndiaUrban India. A slumSlums is an informal settlementInformal Settlement that largely consists of dilapidated housingDilapidated housing, small living area, without adequate access to clean and potable drinking water, sanitationSanitation and unstable renting agreement. Within these slumSlums settlements exist real people and communities whose lives revolve around the nexus of urban (in)formal economy, with hopes and dreams for a better future for themselves and their next generation, as they take decisions to out-migrate from underdeveloped rural areas. These informal and yet vibrant communities often become the backbone of urbanUrban economies. Despite a lack of basic amenities, these settlements provide affordable housingHousing to a significantly large share of slumSlums dwellers in India’sIndiacitiesCities. This chapter reviews academic literature along six major themes to summarise the accomplishments so far, and existing gaps that need further attention. These include the following: (1) Effects of GlobalisationGlobalization and the Neoliberal Economy in Housing Crises and GrowthGrowthof SlumsSlums in India, (2) Neoliberal Economy and Wage Inequality, (3) Changing Patterns of Economy—From Formal to Informal, (4) Rural–Urban MigrationUrban migration and the Role of Urban-centric Economic Bias, (5) Livability in Urban IndiaUrban India and Declining Quality of Life and (6) Methodological Focus in Urban SlumSlums Scholarship in India. This chapter concludes with suggestions for under-researched lines of work with the hope of a spatially informed policyPolicy intervention.
Urbanisation and Urban Villages: An Overview of Slum Communities in India
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3634-7703
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4135-4097
In 2011, over 65 million people lived in slumsSlumsin urban IndiaUrban India. A slumSlums is an informal settlementInformal Settlement that largely consists of dilapidated housingDilapidated housing, small living area, without adequate access to clean and potable drinking water, sanitationSanitation and unstable renting agreement. Within these slumSlums settlements exist real people and communities whose lives revolve around the nexus of urban (in)formal economy, with hopes and dreams for a better future for themselves and their next generation, as they take decisions to out-migrate from underdeveloped rural areas. These informal and yet vibrant communities often become the backbone of urbanUrban economies. Despite a lack of basic amenities, these settlements provide affordable housingHousing to a significantly large share of slumSlums dwellers in India’sIndiacitiesCities. This chapter reviews academic literature along six major themes to summarise the accomplishments so far, and existing gaps that need further attention. These include the following: (1) Effects of GlobalisationGlobalization and the Neoliberal Economy in Housing Crises and GrowthGrowthof SlumsSlums in India, (2) Neoliberal Economy and Wage Inequality, (3) Changing Patterns of Economy—From Formal to Informal, (4) Rural–Urban MigrationUrban migration and the Role of Urban-centric Economic Bias, (5) Livability in Urban IndiaUrban India and Declining Quality of Life and (6) Methodological Focus in Urban SlumSlums Scholarship in India. This chapter concludes with suggestions for under-researched lines of work with the hope of a spatially informed policyPolicy intervention.
Urbanisation and Urban Villages: An Overview of Slum Communities in India
Springer Geography
Chatterjee, Uday (editor) / Bandyopadhyay, Nairwita (editor) / Setiawati, Martiwi Diah (editor) / Sarkar, Soma (editor) / Harrison, Mark Ethan (author) / Sharma, Madhuri (author)
2023-05-24
22 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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