Sustainable Development of Slum Living
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Sustainable Development of Slum Living Prince Immanuel Kalyanasundaram and B. Kalpana Kosalram SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India
Synonyms Peri-urban zones; Poor urban neighborhood; Shanty towns; Squatter settlements; Urban-rural interface
Definition A slum is an exceptionally occupied urban residential area which includes most of the housing which is decrepit and packed closely in circumstances of depreciated or unfinished infrastructural facilities inhabited mainly by deprived individuals (Purcell 2012, p. 2). Slum dwellings vary from shanty to professionally built houses which because of the low quality of construction and/or poor maintenance has depreciated very quickly (Edelman and Mitra 2006, p. 26). Therefore, researchers on sustainability attempt to explain the sustainable development in various dimensions pertaining to the issues of slum living and discover innovative means to address this main issue.
Introduction In this chapter, the emergence and growth of slum living are discussed. The causes of growing slums are highlighted in the research literature, and the attributes of slums are also presented. These resources and attributes of slums lead to discussion about the sustainable development of slum living. There are a lot of debates among researchers who are working in the sustainable development of slums about conventional approach to modernist approach, sustainable policy for improvement of slums, and self-regulatory activities among people living in slum areas. An overview is given on three ideas discovered in the literature for dealing with the complicated nature of slum living that is related with its sustainable development. The various possible measures for sustainable development of slum living is also discussed critically.
Emergence of Slum It was in the early 1820s that the term slum appeared as a space in the London Cantonment. The concept of slum was used for identifying the worst-quality housing units with very poor sanitation: a refuge for minor illegal actions consisting of crime, vice, abuse of drugs and a source for various epidemics that devastated urban areas. Slum is an intensively crowded non-rural area featured by very poor housing and
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nastiness (Bhatt 2003, p. 3). This encapsulated the important features of slums and their quality of housing which usually are very poor. The initial two characteristics are physical and spatial, while the third is behavioral and social features. This extent of relations is typical, not simply for the description of slums but also of views of them. Living in such areas differ from simple temporary to permanent housing and has very limited accessibility to basic amenities. Among the most important time period of any given century, the nineteenth century was the one where the notion emerged in the written language “back-slum.” Towards the close o
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