physical size of the towns‚ cities and other larger urban settlements in a country or a region. Process whereby settlements grow in terms of population number and/or physical size Megacity: A giant metropolis with a population of at least 10 million Slums: A residential area that is physically and socially deteriorated and in which satisfactory family life is impossible. Squatters: Shelters with poor structural quality and developed without legal claims to the land and/or permission from the concerned
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enjoy‚ like cars clothes candy drugs television and entertainment. Eventually large slums develop around or inside of the cities‚ in these slums; large groups of poor and uneducated people end up living together in poverty. The World Bank met in 1999 to address these problems; in their report they write "
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planning service use and the barriers in accessing family planning services among urban poor women in Pakistan. Data were collected from a household survey of 5338 married women of reproductive age (15-45) from slum areas of six cities. The use of family planning services by women in urban slums is strongly linked to individual and household socioeconomic factors. In particular‚ women were ten times more likely to have used a family planning service if her husband approved. This research has highlighted
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in poverty in slums‚ which cover huge sectors of the area. The Dharavi slum is a great example of over cramming of members of the population in small areas of space. They are known as the Dharavi Slums. Although it doesn’t seem the same‚ we suffer from similar problems here in the UK. Not to the extent that they do in India however the problems are very similar‚ poorer members of populations are also forced into lower quality housing which is often overcrowded as the Dharavi slums are. Hulme in
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population of over 8 million; examples include Sao Paulo‚ Mumbai‚ Los Angeles and Beijing. However these megacities face problems‚ for example Mumbai is a megacity which is facing problems as a consequence of rapid growth. Within Mumbai there is a slum area‚ Dharavi which houses 600‚000 people in only one square mile land. This has come as a consequence of rural to urban migration; the rural people are attracted to the city by the “bright light syndrome” and the prospect of jobs and a better standard
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sheeting and wooden planks)‚ by degradation of the local ecosystem (for example‚ erosion and poor water quality and sanitation) and by severe social problems. United Nations Human Settlements Programme (2008) differentiate slum settlement to squatter settlement. The word slum
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Informal cites or slums are cities that are set up without the government’s permission but are fighting for their place in society. The government is often weak and at odds with the people which leads to a need for them to exert their ability to shape their own lives regardless of the rules and impact the world around them. GraceLand by Chris Abani‚ The Children of Sisyphus by James Patterson‚ and “City of God” all shoe the positive and negative sides of trying to shape one’s life while living in
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rural to urban migration happening all over India in the search for a better life style leading to large areas of slums. How the India government is now trying to address the problem‚ an example of this would be in Mumbai where Dharavi is one of the most highly populated areas in the world with over 1 and a half million people living with effectively 1 square mile‚ all of which is slum housing. As the area in which the Dharavi is placed on is some of the most expensive real estate in Mumbai. It is
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III FACTORS THAT AFFECT PEOPLE FROM SQUATTERS 13 Unemployment 13 Migration 14 CHAPTER IV CONCLUSION 15 BIBLIOGRAPHY 16 1 Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION The phenomenon of urban slums in Metro Manila was not widely documented until the 1960’s‚ when the Philippines experienced rapid urbanization and astounding influx of squatters population. Earlier in the 60’s‚ the squatter population started to swell along with the accelerated
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this idea‚ as many developing cities are becoming overcrowded and do not have the infrastructure available to support their citizens. Unavailable infrastructure and a high cost of living are putting the urban poor at jeopardy (Barke et al‚ 2001). The slum neighbourhoods are where many low-income urban dwellers find their place to live. ’Shanty’ towns continue to affect the level of urbanization in developing countries‚ where a deceptive image of this social process becomes questionable. To get a grasp
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