It's the world's most ambitous urban renewal plan. In Dharavi, the biggest slum in Mumbai (where 400,000 residents have managed to turn a fetid marsh into a thriving city unto itself), city officials are implementing a plan to rehouse them all in a deal that gives developers free land there in exchange for providing housing for all 53,000 Dharavi families. But, corruption is rampant, and the plan is said to create the greatest density of urban environment ever planned anywhere on the planet. So, where do the residents stand in all of this? How is the current state of Dharavi potentially already a useful model in itself?
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it is sad that the govt of mumbai - india still look at dharavi as an eye -sore particularly since the country now recognises the hype of second strongest growing economy to watch . they recently razed many slums near the main airport .
imo the slum is the best example of sustainable community albeit its primitive and unhygeinic outlook n services it promotes a strong relation the people have with its neighbourhood a thing dwindling away from the manufactured towns of the modern era .
organic evolution is a lesson aching to be learned from examples like these but the oh so pompous architects / planners will they ever be humbled by naked realities or continue to live in an isolated dream for a few
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