Transcript Improving Shanty Towns - New Edexcel B GCSE Geography

Improving Shanty Towns
IWU how to consider the success of strategies to improve quality of life in cities in the developing world
Must: be able to describe a specific management schemes in Dharavi
Should: be able to evaluate the success of each scheme
Could: be able to rank the schemes against each other to determine success and justify your views
Starter:
What does it mean to be successful?
What does it mean for a management technique to be considered successful?
Improving Shanty Towns
Government Housing
Charities
Assisted Self Help
Housing
Private Investment
Named e.g
Hong Kong
Calcutta / Kolkata
Mother Theresa
Brazil, Rio
Dharavi, India
Positives
-rehousing everyone to a
new development on the
edge of the city.
- New houses for poorest
people.
- Improving houses where
they.
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Area can be sold on.
Cost efficient.
Anyone living there
gets a new house.
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Needs an area with
high real estate to
make this possible.
People running this
are focussed on
money.
If companies leave
whole projects
would fail.
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-new housing only pay rent.
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Negatives
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Poor use of space.
Expensive
People not used to the
new environment
Uses lots of resourcespollution
Travel further for work.
- don’t have enough money
to do everything they need
to.
Providing building
materials to make
affordable houses.
Makes materials really
cheap with subsidies.
Electricity and water
given by the
government.
Local people have a say
in building.
- Some people are taking
this illegally.
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Sustainable?
Which do you feel is the most effective
type of redevelopment ? Why?
Dharavi Improvements
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Read through the plans for redeveloping Dharavi
Summarise the information into 3 bullet points
Do you think that the scheme has been successful?
Would this be a view shared by all ?
Using named examples, explain the housing and environmental problems faced
by developing world cities. (6)