Dharavi Case Study Quiz

1. Where is Dharavi?

2. What is the employment rate in Dharavi?

3. Is the crime rate high or low?

4. How many people live there?

5. What size is it?

6. How many people lived in Monica’s house?

Improving Shanty Towns IWU how to manage urban issues in developing countries.

Must: be able to make decisions on management of urban issues in developing countries

 

Should: be able to justify decisions on management of urban issues in developing countries

 

Could: be able to evaluate decisions on management of urban issues in developing countries

Homework:

Read and highlight the key features of different management of shanty towns

You are either local leaders of the Community of Ariba, a well established squatter settlement in Mexico City or Brazilian government Ministers.

You both want to improve the favela.

Resources:

– Map of Ariba; – Price list for improvements to a shanty town; – Information sheet on shanty towns in general and on Ariba in particular;– Planning sheet.

Tasks:

1. Decide on the most important problems that the community faces2. Decide which ones you will tackle in the first year, the second year and ones you will leave

for the future3. Begin to plan your spending of their shanty town points (STP)

Residents Government

Year 1

Year 2

Future

What worked well? What could have been improved ? Did

residents always benefit? Compare top down and bottom up

NGO and urban planning? Did the different groups have different

priorities ? Why? IWU how to manage urban issues in developing countries.

Must: be able to make decisions on management of urban issues in developing countries

Should: be able to justify decisions on management of urban issues in developing countries

Could: be able to evaluate decisions on management of urban issues in developing countries