SLUM Prepared by LIONG YONG CHANG FAN KE YANG CONTENT: WHAT IS SLUM WHY SLUM EXIST PROBLEMS CAUSED BY SLUM SLUM’S CHARACTERISTIC CURRENT SITUATION AROUND THE WORLD SLUM EXAMPLE SLUM SOLUTION SLUM UPGRADING CONCLUSION Planning Studio 300

What’s SLUM? According to UN-HABITAT : a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing and squalor and lacking in tenure security Generally—poverty or poor area(no income standard, depending on different local situation)

Why SLUM exist? Natural disaster Population increasing Poverty week.com/peters%20old%20sit e/myanmar.jpg 07/india-population.jpg

Problems caused by SLUM Starving Diseases War Environmental shock homelessness Overcrowded polluted-river-in-slum-pv.jpg content/uploads/2010/12/01diocese1.jpg /00117/AVN_DEMOLITION_117395f.jpg savior.com/Disturbing%20Truths/starving_child-sudan2.jpg

SLUM’S CHARACTERISTIC Inadequate access to safe water Inadequate access to sanitation and other infrastructure Poor structural quality of housing Insecure residential status Overcrowding Source:SLUMS OF THE WORLD: THE FACE OF URBAN POVERTY IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM?

SLUM’S Current situation around world urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47% to 37% in the developing world between According to UN HABITAT report in 2006, 327 million people live in slums in commonwealth countries(1 in 6 commonwealth citizens) Source :UN HABITAT

SLUM’S EXAMPLE Smokey Mountain, Philippines Mumbai, India Kibera slum, Nairobi, Africa Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Nairobi-Kibera_slums.jpg s/ jpg

SLUM’S Solutions Slum clearance Slum upgrading drive the urban poor from their homes bulldoze their shacks and their belongings Now transform into well functioning neighborhoods Change physical environment Enable the poor to improve and expand their housing Previously Slum Clearance in Jakarta from BBC news Slum upgrading in Jakarta from Cities Without Slum

Slum Upgrading Elements of slum upgrading Security of tenure for slum’s residentsAssistance in improving housingProvision of sewers and drainsGrading and paving of streets, lanes and footpathsImproved access to potable waterRegularization of electricity connectionsimproved access to public transportation Slum upgrading in Brazil from Cities Without Slum BEFORE AFTER

Plan of Slum Improvement Programme at Durgapur, India by an Indian planner, Jogen Chowdhury Rearrange the houses with different types of housing. Add in elements of landscape and recreation

Conclusion The first image of Slum = Dirty = challenging to the planner and officers. Since it is challenging, we have to challenge it to turn a dirty place into the Utopia of the residents. From Slum clearance to slum upgrading, there are several cases in India and Indonesia to show us how successful of the slum upgrading. Night itself does not show any shape or contour, and only in the context of the fire was shining, and that one night will be shown with the contours of space by Jane Jacobs. Town planning, financial support and political support are the guarantee to the slum upgrading to bring a sweet home to those slum dweller. What we can do is: JUST DO IT and believe that IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING The first image of Slum = Dirty = challenging to the planner and officers. Since it is challenging, we have to challenge it to turn a dirty place into the Utopia of the residents. From Slum clearance to slum upgrading, there are several cases in India and Indonesia to show us how successful of the slum upgrading. Night itself does not show any shape or contour, and only in the context of the fire was shining, and that one night will be shown with the contours of space by Jane Jacobs. Town planning, financial support and political support are the guarantee to the slum upgrading to bring a sweet home to those slum dweller. What we can do is: JUST DO IT and believe that IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING

Reference SLUMS OF THE WORLD: THE FACE OF URBAN POVERTY IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM? Monitoring the Millennium Development Goal, Target 11- World-wide Slum Dweller Estimation Working Paper, UN-HABITAT, 2003 Cities without slums, Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director of UN-HABITAT Cities Alliance for Cities Without Slum, Action Plan for Moving Slum, PREPARED BY LIONG YONG CHANG AND FAN KE YANG