Brazilian favelas and Indian slums upgrading: two case studies
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2016
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The depressing housing condition for the majority urban poor in the world is a pervasive and persistent global reality today. Over a billion people in the world live in substandard housing conditions. This population is likely to grow in rapidly urbanizing countries such as India and Brazil. In 2010 the number of Brazilians living in these conditions increased from 6.5 million in 2000 to 11.4 million in 2010, distributed in 6,329 clusters across 323 municipalities. In India, one third of the country’s population is estimated to be living in substandard housing. A recently released 2014 UN Prospects report 66 per cent of the world population will live in cities by 2050. With this the slum population in the world is likely to grow exponentially. We can expect the situation to worsen due to multiple, interlocking disadvantages slum dwellers face that relate to all three - social, economic and environmental – dimensions of their lives. The situation is challenging in the cities where the deficit of urban housing is already glaringly evident in their urban landscape in the form of numerous slum and squatter settlements.
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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