Dharavi

• opportunities


  social - 600000 residing, 12000 people per acre

  economic - many businesses attracted as they have a cheap workforce

  environmental - 5000 industrialists perform recycling
• disease

  • toxic chemicals in water supply
  • doctors deal with 4000 cases a day due to poor sanitation
  • rats in house - transfer disease
  • no sanitation
• pollution

  • waters contaminated
  • rubbish everywhere
  • smells
  • sewage = half a metre deep
  • rats
  • no sanitation
  • open sewage pipes with water pipes running through
  • fires (air pollution)
• layout

  • dirty and dangerous
  • industry = illegal
  • 1 million people in 1 square mile
  • organised rows of houses
  • pipes only go on for 2 hours a day for water (they have to share pipes with neighbours)
  • streets lined with small shops
  • they don't let in new people
• housing

  • crowded - 1 million people per square mile
  • looks like rubbish - camouflage
  • no toilets
  • entire city built on top of rubbish hill
  • temporary houses
  • 12 by 12 foot homes - small
  • 21 people per houses (1 room = 5 people)
  • 3 generations in one house
• infrastructure/services

  • makeshift houses
  • water pipes - run threw sewage
  • make do Mosque's
  • high street full of shops
  • 1 massive community
  • 'tin box of a building'
  • no privacy
  • 15000 - 1 room factories - turn over = $1 billion per year
• quality of life

  • no sanitation - dirty
  • sat on floor to eat - prepared food on floor
  • ingenious ways of living and working
  • cramped
  • not about environment about the people - people look good
  • 86% of people have a job in the slums - no regulation for workers - workers live in factories - can be any age to work - sweat shops
  • children go to school - children can go anywhere and feel safe
  • no crime
  • people are happy - share everything - people are religious