They have done this voluntarily in order to exploit actual or perceived economic opportunities and this increasing urban informal sector is spectacularly visible in the many growing and large scale informal and squatter settlements in urban centres. (Sustainable Urbanisation, 2007) and the immigrant urban poor have largely moved from the country side to the cities. Since 1950 the proportion of people working in developing country agriculture has declined by 20 to 30 per cent. The research finds that four major areas are essential to making low income development plausible for the future: government investment adequate service provision appropriate construction techniques and government regulations.ĭue to an inability to keep up with housing the massive increase in urban populations in developing countries during the latter half of the 20th century, there has been a significant increase in the growth of slum settlements. The paper will also consider what lessons can be learnt from its considered successes and its relevant failures to see whether or not this type of development is pertinent as a contemporary means of housing the poor. This paper will consider Aranya low-cost housing in India as an example of an architecturally planned master scheme where slum dwellers have been displaced from their illegal dwellings. Some of these systems have worked and some have not.
Housing the poor: a study of Aranya, India.ĪBSTRACT: Due to a growing number of urban poor in the major cities of developing countries, there has been a large-scale international effort to implement an appropriate solution to housing the urban poor.
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