Slum Rehabilitation: Re-Location or In Situ Rehabilitation

Abstract

In rapid globalizations, today every towns and metropolis are depending more and more on workforce coming from developing countries, smaller cities, villages, rural areas. Worldwide any metropolitan city’s working-class people are coming from neighbor towns, villages. However, cities are not able to provide better life style and sufficient livelihoods to our working-class people who are immigrating from rural to cities. Urban slum and this problem are widely spreading across the globe. Very rapidly, urban villages are transformed into slum due to its proximity to metropolis areas.
Urban slums dwellers are integral part for city development. Indian cities are growing very rapid and immigrations from rural areas to urban cities are generating slums in metros and B town cities. In contexts of most of metro and major Indian cities, habitants of slum or urban villages are dependent on neighbor areas for household jobs or street vendors, small shops, etc. Any civilized neighborhood cannot sustain without people coming from neighborhood’s slums, thus large numbers of slum habitants have their work areas within 0–5 km of their living areas. In all major Indian cities and metros, every prosperous locality has one urban slum nearby. These slums are illegal and almost impossible to relocate. Most of Slum Rehabilitations projects and Government policy for slum developments of India are failing. Due to the fact of no consideration of slum dwellers work areas vicinity.
Proposed paper is an either attempt to address few important issues regarding slum rehabilitation, to relocate or in situ rehabilitation. Even if relocation is need of city design, designer and policy makers should have considerations of equally good work opportunities for relocated habitants in their new address. Paper will also highlight few case studies from Indian cities and global examples for learning and setting the benchmarks for future design.