Dharavi Redevelopmet

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Date: 20 February,
2020

Title:

The Big
Picture

Connect
and Engage

WALT: how the city authorities are planning to ‘improve’
the slum

WILF: To be able to describe the features of the Vision
Mumbai project
To explain how this affects peoples lives.
To evaluate the whether slums in India’s
megacities should be cleared .

TIB: the slum is home to over 1 million people, what
happens to the slum will impact on their lives

Keywords: slum regeneration apartments sanitation quality of life

How are the slums in Dharavi
being ‘improved’?

TC
Processes

Multiple Choice

Using the map - what is the population density of Australia?

• 0-25 people per square kilometer

• 25-75 people per square kilometer

• 150 - 300 people per square kilometer

• 400 - 500 per square kilometer

Multiple Choice

Poor transport links and a shortage of food would be an examples of a which type of factor involved in migration?  

• Push Factor

• Pull Factor

• Primary Factor

• Secondary Factor

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All images from the Slum Rehabilitation Authority

Annotate the major characteristics of the proposed
slum redevelopment of Dharavi on the
PHOTOGRAPHS

Open Ended

What would be some of the positives to the redevelopment of Dharavi?

Open Ended

What would be some of the negatives of the redevelopment of Dharavi?

Demonstrate

On the sketch diagram of the high rises which replace the slums;
•In GREEN add the positive ways in which these characteristics will IMPROVE the
quality of life of the people in Dharavi

•In RED add the negative characteristics and how they are not better than what the
people already have in the slum.

Sewage pipes
take away
human waste

This is good
because…

This improves quality
of life because….

The accommodation is
very small

This is worse
than the slum
because…

Open Ended

What would be an alternative to the redevelopment idea?

How is urban planning improving the quality of life
for the urban poor? – Dharavi, Mumbai

There is a proposal to totally redvelop Dharavi slum in Mumbai. The Slum

Rehabilitiation Authority have already cleared some slums in Mumbai and
rehoused the slum dwellers in high rise blocks of flats.

1. Annotate the major characteristics of the proposed slum redevelopment of

Dharavi on the PHOTOGRAPHS.

2. On the sketch diagram of the high rises (slide 7) which replace the slums;
• In GREEN add the positive ways in which these characteristics will IMPROVE

the quality of life of the people in Dharavi.

• In RED add the negative characteristics and how they are not better than

what the people already have in the slum.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-yjpvzGKZQ Watch 27:00 to 35:00

Some of the Rules of the Dharavi
redevelopment proposed project

1.
Every slum structure existing on or prior to 1/1/1995 is eligible for rehabilitation.

2.
Slum dwellers get a self contained 225 sq. ft. (21m2) carpet area tenement free of cost.

3.
The cost of slum dwellers new housing is subsidised by allowing developers to sell EXTRA units
on the housing market

4.
No financial involvement of the government

5.
People’s places of work such as industry will be separate from where they live

http://www.sra.gov.in/Data/presentation/DHARAVI%20PRESENTATION_files/fram
e.htm

5m

4.2m

In pairs –

what are the
consequence

s of these

rules?

•
All images from the Slum Rehabilitation Authority

Annotate the major characteristics of the proposed
slum redevelopment of Dharavi on the
PHOTOGRAPHS

Compact

Light

Clean

Communal
Space

Secure

Modern
Basic

Community

Demonstrate

On the sketch diagram of the high rises which replace the slums;
•In GREEN add the positive ways in which these characteristics will IMPROVE the
quality of life of the people in Dharavi

•In RED add the negative characteristics and how they are not better than what the
people already have in the slum.

Sewage pipes
take away
human waste

This is good
because…

This improves quality
of life because….

The accommodation is
very small

This is worse
than the slum
because…

+ It will house lots of

people this is good
because Dharavi is so
densely populated.

- The accommodation is

built very close together
this is worse than the
slum because it will
create dark and dingy
spaces.

Demonstrate

The scheme to replace Dharavi with high rise flats like other
slum redevelopments in Mumbai should go ahead.

Demonstrate

Should the scheme to replace Dharavi with high rise flats like
other slum redevelopments in Mumbai go ahead?

• Write paragraphs to explain you view.

• Be Brilliant: What alternatives are there?

Consolidate

Review our learning – threshold
concepts

Which of the threshold concepts
have you learnt something about
today?

Give examples of what you have
learnt.

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