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Previous to Present Policies and Approaches for Slum and their Limitations: In Search of Sustainable Slum Upgrading Process in Developing Countries

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  • Kashfia Alam Khan

    (Department of Architecture, Primeasia University, Dhaka, Bangladesh)

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Slums- the living areas of urban poor, have always been treated like a burden for the city. But in reality, the labor of the slum dwellers is running the city mechanism. In developing cities it has become obvious to think about the slums in urban planning strategies as it is an unavoidable part of the city. Slum upgrading has been a complicated issue for decades in poverty surrounded countries of the world. Despite many experiments have been done till now, none of the process is proven to be sustainable to be used as a model for the poverty surrounded slums for upgrading. In this study the main idea was regarding the rationalization of slum upgrading models which are tend to be used as prototypes. The argument about sustainability of top-down program based slum upgrading projects is still very ambiguous in case of developing cities. Failure of top-down projects has promoted urban designers and urban planners to think about alternative approaches. In this research the aim was to find out the key reasons that are responsible for the unsustainability of the approaches of slum upgrading in developing world. At the end of the study modern complex theories of city life are interpret to point out that the intangible elements of slums are the essential part to consider for any upgrading system.

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  • Kashfia Alam Khan, 2021. "Previous to Present Policies and Approaches for Slum and their Limitations: In Search of Sustainable Slum Upgrading Process in Developing Countries," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 5(08), pages 356-366, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:bcp:journl:v:5:y:2021:i:08:p:356-366
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    1. Benjamin Marx & Thomas Stoker & Tavneet Suri, 2013. "The Economics of Slums in the Developing World," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 27(4), pages 187-210, Fall.
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