1. Improving Shanty Towns
IWU how to consider the success of strategies to improve quality of life in cities in the developing world
Must: be able to describe a specific management schemes in Dharavi
Should: be able to evaluate the success of each scheme
Could: be able to rank the schemes against each other to determine success and justify your views
Starter:
What does it mean to be successful?
What does it mean for a management technique to be considered successful?

2. Improving Shanty Towns
Government Housing
Charities
Assisted Self Help Housing
Private Investment
Named e.g
Hong Kong
Calcutta / Kolkata
Mother Theresa
Brazil, Rio
Dharavi, India
Positives
-rehousing everyone to a new development on the edge of the city.
-new housing only pay rent.
New houses for poorest people.
Improving houses where they.
Providing building materials to make affordable houses.
Makes materials really cheap with subsidies.
Electricity and water given by the government.
Local people have a say in building.
Area can be sold on.
Cost efficient.
Anyone living there gets a new house.
Negatives
Poor use of space.
Expensive
People not used to the new environment
Uses lots of resources- pollution
Travel further for work.
don’t have enough money to do everything they need to.
- Some people are taking this illegally.
Needs an area with high real estate to make this possible.
People running this are focussed on money.
If companies leave whole projects would fail.
Sustainable?

3. Which do you feel is the most effective type of redevelopment ? Why?

4. Dharavi Improvements Read through the plans for redeveloping Dharavi
Summarise the information into 3 bullet points
Do you think that the scheme has been successful?
Would this be a view shared by all ?

5. Using named examples, explain the housing and environmental problems faced by developing world cities. (6)