Site Study

KhanjarPur

TEAM MEMBERS:- Aniruddh Jain- Arvind Bachu- Ayush Soni- Hanan Qureshi- Shashank K.

Site Zoning

BLUE: IITRED: Wealthier Areas of KPGREEN: Grassland(outside KP)

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Population

• Total: 14000• Voting: 4344• 1120 families, out of which 89 are BPL

Socioeconomic Profile

• Business• Farmers• Labour (Rickshaw etc.)• Dairy

Cultural Profile• Hindus (predominant)• Muslims• Christians – 100-200• Sikhs – 2 families

Housing Typology• Mainly in bricks, reinforced concrete.• Two floors• Variety

Social Places

• Courtyards in older constructions, mainly among farmers.

• Absent in the new houses.

Respect for Nature

INFRASTRUCTURE

Road Condition (Interior)

Road Condition

Potable Water

Drainage/Sewerage

Electricity/Telecommunication

• Fully electrified• Solar Lighting on Roads• Internet Connectivity• Television/Dish

Education

• Primary• Junior (CBSE)• Girls’ education encouraged; some Muslims

reluctant.• “We have to send our girls outside for Inter”

Education

Community Facilities

• Ground in School/Temple

• Used for marriages, gathering.

Recreational Spaces

• Badminton Court• Volley Ball Court• Football??

(both within school premises)– Some play in IIT

Land Value

• Main Road: Rs. 2000/sft vs. Rs. 1200/sft*• Interiors: Rs. 1200/sft vs. Rs. 700/sft**Land value five years ago

Land Ownership

• Zamindari system ablosihed after ‘47• Farmers own most of the land (~10 bigay - ~50

bigay)– Sugarcane– Wheat– Rice

• No vacant land

Parking

CASE STUDIES

One of the biggest slums in the world, Dharavi is located in West Mumbai region

Approximately seven million people in Mumbai live in slums

55% of the population of Mumbai lives in slums

Mumbai is one of the most populous cities in the world with approximately 14 million people

Mumbai’s slums cover only 6-8% of the city’s land with 55% of its people.

It is believed that 72% of this slum population is literate.

LAND USE PATTERN

Quality of health revolves around access to safe water and sanitation.

Toilet facilities like this are rare.

Sewers are often non-existent. Here

drums of excrement are

dumped.

SMALL SCALE INDUSRTIES IN DHARAVI

• About 100 Printing presses.

• 111 restaurants.

• 85 Export Oriented Units (including WHO approved

• surgical sutures).

• 3 to 4 Soap and detergent factories.

• 25 Bakeries

Child labour.

There are 145 (Hazardous chemical drums) recycling units along residential units.

Adulteration and copying (cold drinks to toothpaste).

722 Scrap and Recycling (plastics, chemicals etc.) of which only 359are licensed.

ChorBazaar : Mumbai’s biggest market for any kind of Pirated goods.

INDUSTRIES IN DHARAVI

NEGETIVE EFFECTS

The redevelopment would mean, a cleaner hygienic Dharavi minus the slums, encroachments and small scaleunits.

People of Dharavi would live a better life in terms of tangible comforts like houses etc..

Paves way for 550 acres of prime real estate in the most pivotal part of Mumbai.

This plan dedicates plots to non polluting industries.

Dharavi always carried the slum tag, and now will be ready to become a part of the Skyline of Mumbai.

Relocating 57000 unwilling to relocate families is a big thing.

The Idea of redevelopment was least thought of 10 years back.

As industries are segregated, the social activities which are interrelated between industries are endangered.

People in Dharavi although uncomfortable, are happy, happiness is omnipresent in Dharavi.

Redevelopment is just an excuse given to make more money out of the Real Estate gold mine that underlies Dharavi.

REDEVELOPMENT OR NOT

Case studies all over the world have documented the inappropriateness of high-rise resettlement projects in poor areas. The social and economic networks which

the poor rely on for subsistence can hardly be sustained in high-rise structures. These high rise projects are not appropriate for home-based economic activities,

which play a major role in Dharavi.

A unique characteristic of Dharavi is its very close work-place relationship. Productive activity takes place in nearly every home. As a result, Dharavi's

economic activity is decentralized, human scale, home-based, low-tech and labor-intensive.

This has created an organic and incrementally developing urban form with mixed use, high density low-rise streetscapes. This is a model many

planners have been trying to recreate in cities across the world.

Inferences

Slum Redevelopment :Amraiwadi, Gujarat

Amraiwadi, GujaratAmraiwadi is located in the eastern segment of the Ahmedabad city, which has historically

developed as an industrial area; since the beginning of the 20th century the cotton textile mills were located there and later the new industrial estates housing small scale industries.

Gujarat state government has decided to adopt Mumbai's controversial Dharavi slum redevelopment model as it embarks on an ambitious plan to upgrade the living quarters of

440,000 slum dwellers in the city.

Multi-Pronged Approach of Gujarat Housing Boardfor slum redevelopment

The Ahmedabad project, called 'the Regulation for the Rehabilitation and Redevelopment of the Slums 2010' and run by the state's Urban Development Department, will focus initially on

1,200 families who reside in the 'crime-prone' slum of Amraiwadi. Under the public-private partnership (PPP) model, an Ahmedabad-based private contractor will develop 1,136 flats of 33

square metres each, in three-storey blocks, for allocation to slum dwellers currently living on government land. The one-bedroom apartments will have drainage and drinking water systems,

and will also have a landscaped garden and school if all approvals go as planned.

As the project progresses, the government will need to keep as its focus the betterment of the people living in the slums, rather than a 'beautification' of the city, which will ultimately lead to an incongruence in goals for the players involved.

Under Ahmedabad's Slum Rehabilitation Policy, the builder can utilise the space left after constructing houses for the slum-dwellers for commercial or other purposes. Also, the floor space index (FSI) — the ratio of the total floor area of a building to the area of its site — will be raised for builders who develop slums under the policy.

This scheme aims to provide: • Urban Infrastructure Facilities • Social Infrastructure Facilities • EWS/LIG Housing • Provision for two rooms, kitchen, bathroom and water closet • Inclusion of Private Sector for in-situ Development of Slums • Releasing a bunch of incentives to catalyze the low-cost housing

sector in the State

Mukhyamantri awas samriddhi yojana

Methodology

Six slums in this Amraiwadi ward have been selected after looking at the available data from

the surveys and Focussed Group Discussions (FGDs) in each of the slum.

Typical Floor Plans for the Proposed One BHK Flats

Proposed plans by Gujarat Housing Board for slum redevelopment

Pruitt-igoe

Design Considerations

• Space to be provided for Cattle, preferably common.• Agricultural land to be legal maintenance purview.• Zoning in terms of socio economic strata considerations – farmers, businessmen etc. • Proper sewerage and sanitary systems to be considered given the severe problems that arise during monsoons• Infrastructure for Health facilities to be considered.• Aspirations of people to be kept in mind in terms ofcross-linkages between house holds • Community and recreation areas would be of utmost importance.• Respect for Nature.

We should acknowledge existing economic activities and the spatial organization, and modify it wherever necessary in the process of

redevelopment.

The involvement of the concerned population in the planning process is a planning imperative if the redevelopment is to be successful from a human

and urban perspective.

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