Baan Mankong participatory slum upgrading in Bangkok, Thailand: Community perceptions of outcomes and security of tenure

Archer, Diane

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2011.08.006

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“…There are numerous evidences of successful outcomes of community participation in developing countries e.g. Baan Mankong in Thailand (Archer, 2012;Boonyabancha, 2005), Durban in South Africa (Patel, 2013), Kitale in Kenya (Majale, 2008), and Hyderabad and Visakhapatanam in India (Asthana, 1994;Rakodi, 1989). The slums, in spite of being haphazard and filthy, have continued to serve the purpose of housing for a large section of population in Mumbai.…”

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Mumbai slums since independence: Evaluating the policy outcomes

Bardhan

Sarkar

Jana

et al. 2015

Habitat International

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Mumbai slums since independence: Evaluating the policy outcomes

Bardhan

Sarkar

Jana

et al. 2015

Habitat International

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“…to tackle with slums Urban housing Provision of basic services and infrastructure Poverty reduction and job creation Land management [42] Specific capacities Disaster risk reduction strategies (11.6, 11.B) Indeed, overemphasizing upgrading as the dominant policy can be problematic. Despite evidence showing that the upgrading efforts have improved the day-to-day life of slum dwellers through secured tenure [67], participatory urban governance and empowerment [68] and investments in infrastructure [69], Archer [67] and Minnery et al [70] conclude that the upgrading programs are feasible for a short-term physical uplift, while failing at pro-active long-term planning. Informal settlements and the preceding causes are rarely included in the discourse underlining the need to develop for more holistic approaches that connect different institutional and spatial scales [4,13,29,54,70,71].…”

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Rural-Urban Migration and the Growth of Informal Settlements: A Socio-Ecological System Conceptualization with Insights Through a “Water Lens”

2019

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Informal settlements i.e., slums emerge from the interplay of multidimensional factors related to urbanization and sustainability. While the contribution of urban factors is well understood, the role of external drivers, such as uncontrolled migration to urban areas, is rarely addressed in research or policy-making. This study develops a novel conceptualization of slums by reviewing the pushing and pulling factors of migration and their contribution to informal settlements through 1) a socio-ecological system approach and 2) the concept of adaptive capacity. Further, it advances the discussion around synergistic and coherent policy-making in the urban context by reviewing three urban agendas and further using water as a case with the concept of cross-cutting domains. We show that the emergence of urban challenges can, and should be, linked to the root causes of flows into urban areas. Understanding these linkages through a socio-ecological system framework opens a window for knowledge-based policy development and addressing the question of how to avoid unsustainable urban development. Urbanization is one of the phenomena where the excessive complexity and dimensions of problems should not hamper action but instead, actions should be encouraged and enabled with synergistic and integrative pathways for sustainable urban development.

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“…However, in Royklong, Baan Mankong upgrading is still ongoing, in situ (though not all households are participating), while the other two communities have completed their relocation and construction of new homes through the upgrading initiative. The current status of Baan Mankong within a community can affect collective actionwhere upgrading is still ongoing, in Royklong, the community efforts may be focused on completing upgrading rather than other issues such as building flood resilience or environmental management, in part due to the financial burden of the upgrading process (Archer 2012b). The household survey in Royklong found that some respondents were working three jobs.…”

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The role of collective and individual assets in building urban community resilience

Archer

Marome

Natakun

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International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development

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This paper explores how organised urban communities in Bangkok are planning for and responding to environmental and other crises, to identify approaches to fostering more sustainable, inclusive and resilient urban development. Lower-income residents may not have access to support systems such as disaster insurance, so being able to use existing assets can offer an opportunity for successful coping and adaptation strategies to future shocks. The study explores what actions are taken by lower-income residents to cope and adapt using their individual and collective assets in response to current and future hazardsespecially in contexts where social capital is strong from a history of collective slum upgrading. It shows that such asset-based approaches can be an entry point for cooperation between these communities and other stakeholders, including local government, local NGOs and others, and there is scope to further strengthen asset-based adaptation approaches through legal and institutional measures.

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Baan Mankong participatory slum upgrading in Bangkok, Thailand: Community perceptions of outcomes and security of tenure

Cited by 50 publications

References 4 publications

Mumbai slums since independence: Evaluating the policy outcomes

Mumbai slums since independence: Evaluating the policy outcomes

Rural-Urban Migration and the Growth of Informal Settlements: A Socio-Ecological System Conceptualization with Insights Through a “Water Lens”

The role of collective and individual assets in building urban community resilience

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