what is slum area? A slum is a heavily populated urban informal settlement characterized by substandard housing and squalor. While slums differ in size and other characteristics, most lack reliable sanitation services, supply of clean water, reliable electricity, law enforcement and other basic services. Slum residences vary from shanty houses to professionally built dwellings that because of poor-quality construction or provision of services have deteriorated into slums. Rapid urbanization and dense
Demographic profile of the slum population of Western Suburbs in Mumbai Slum areas outline high rates of destitution, lack of education and pathetic wellbeing status. Slum tenants have low procurement. Urban territories don't give them appropriate employment. They don't have any formal training centres. Residents of slums areoccupied with casual work through which they can't acquire much income. They work in anenvironment which is destructive to them. This reality drives them to work in casual parts
The Slum is a novel portraying the Brazilian lifestyle in the later part of the 19th century. This novel was originally a Brazilian Portuguese based novel called "O Cortico" written in 1890, later translated into English "The Slum". This novel reveals the underlying issues related to social classes, women's roles and ethnicity comprise the key elements in this impassioned novel by Aluisio Azevedo. The Slum refers to Rio de Janeiro, a history rich city located in Brazil. Azevedo uses his characters
contrasting films City of God, set in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil and Slum dog Millionaire set in Mumbai, India. It will look at how poverty has an impact on social problems, as well as the cultural issues and solutions that the films provide for such problems. The paper will look at the two films individually and then compare and contrast them. The City of God is based on a true story and is set in the area of Favela, which is considered the slums in Rio De Janeiro. The “shanty towns” were created by the
countries of the region, and it wasoften beyond the capacity of towns, cities and metropolitanareas to cope with the increasing numbers. The increasingtrends of rural to urban migration should be seriouslyreviewed in the context of development of slums in urbanarea. No doubt,
with better facilities to get a better quality of living. For me, the most significant issues that mentioned by Ooi and Phua (2007) was rapid urbanization which means the growth of population in cities due to economic factor caused the formation of slum or squatter settlements which makes the definition of a city vulnerable. For example, in cities there should be comfortable housings to
written by Katherine Boo. This book takes a look into the lives of three main characters and how they cope with the daily struggles of living in slums of Mumbai. I believe that the authors main Idea is stated in the title of the book which is actually a metaphor which is depicted in the book. On the walls that separate the rich affluent area of Mumbai from the slum that is setting for this book, there are giant advertisements for floor tiles. The advertisements reads in bold letters “Beautiful Forever”
speaker series, about her experiences whilst writing her 2012 book Behind the Beautiful Forevers. Behind the Beautiful Fovevers follows the lives of residents of Annawadi, a Mumbai slum that is located right next to the city’s international airport. Whilst writing her book, Boo spent three whole years living in the Annawadi slum. Boo’s book has garnered practically ubiquitous acclaim from fans and critics, in both India and America, since its release two years ago. Therefore, it was none to surprising
winning non-fiction account of life in the slums of Mumbai deals with the key themes of inequality, unemployment, poverty and powerlessness through the presentation of the striking reality of daily life in a Mumbai slum. The initial description of the slum and the surrounding area showcase these themes in a clear manner. Within the first few pages the reader is greeted with the vast inequality that exists within Indian slums and overall developing cities. The slum Annawadi is overshadowed by the conspicuous
Modern Housing movement. The Progressive movement saw publicly-owned housing as a way to ameliorate the basic conditions of impoverished families. Purging slum developments in urban spaces was also another motive. The main emphasis of the Progressive movement was the debilitating and dangerous conditions in America’s most disadvantaged slums. The environment there was seen as detrimental to the poor and especially to children forced to grow up in squalor and disease. Housing reformers of this period