Two approaches to the improvement of low-income urban areas — Madras and Orangi

Hasan, Arif; Vaidya, Chetan

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“…As Silver (2014) suggests infrastructure space in cities such as Accra have long been associated with incremental and ongoing interventions by urban dwellers seeking to transform conditions of energy poverty and wider socio-environmental inequality. And this incremental upgrading has long been important to broader debates within the academy and policy worlds concerned development and urban planning in the Global South (Hasan and Chetan, 1986;Satterthwaite and Mitlin, 2013;Turner, 1972). These urban, neighbourhood or even household-scale transitions, often termed niches in the socio-technical literatures (Geels, 2002) illustrate the need to better consider the role of social movements and civic society in experimentation, innovation and technological upscaling.…”

Section: Constituting Urban Capacitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Powering sub-Saharan Africa’s urban revolution: An energy transitions approach

Silver

Marvin

2016

Urban Studies

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This paper develops a geographic understanding of urban energy transitions in subSaharan African towns and cities. In doing so this paper seeks to critically reßect on the value and limits of urban transitions analysis as a framework for understanding energy networks beyond the largely integrated systems across the Global North. We explore how these potentials and deÞcits can be addressed by examining promising developments across a series of debates in urban studies that can help sensitise this approach to energyscapes in the African context. By reviewing urban transi-tions analysis through these debates the paper offers four important contributions to expand existing ways of understanding energy transition. These include the particular urbanisation dynamics of African towns ands cities, the need to locate the urban across energy regimes, the agencies of various intermediaries and urban actors and the contested politics inherent in the governing of energy networks. In the conclusion we reßect on the speciÞc directions that have emerged from the paper in relation to our contributions, offering a geographically informed framework that allows us to better examine the challenges and speciÞcities of transition across these rapidly growing urban regions.

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Section: Constituting Urban Capacitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Powering sub-Saharan Africa’s urban revolution: An energy transitions approach

Silver

Marvin

2016

Urban Studies

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“…Orangi town is considered as one of the largest slums of the world due to the deplorable socioeconomic status of the town. The town is scarce of the basic needs and facilities required by the citizens (Hasan and Vaidya, 1986).The highest population density is observed in the Liaquatabad and Lyari towns from 58300 to 84220 per square kilometers. Most of the land within both towns is occupied for residential purposes.…”

Section: Population Density and Land Use Type Of The Townsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessment of Spatial Distribution, Characteristics, and Socio-Economic Status of Urban Beggars in Karachi City, Pakistan

Sulman

2023

SRJ

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Begging is a social problem of every urbanized city, most importantly in the developing countries. Due to the increasing population and lack of earning resources in the urban cities, begging is now extremely entrenched in the roots of society. The problem has never been resolved either by the government or civil society, particularly in the developing world. Beggars are usually found in highly dense urban and sub urban areas so that the advantage of the structural inequality of wealth and mobility between the beggars can be achieved. This study is conducted in Karachi, a mega city of Pakistan. Eighteen different towns of the city were surveyed during the study period and around 740 beggars were interviewed. The main aim of the study was to find out the characteristics, socioeconomic status, and the spatial distribution of the urban beggars. A stratified random sampling method is used to collect the data. The study confirms the influence of land use on the spread of beggars. The study also finds out that most of the beggars are migrated from different provinces and based on gender; percentage of male beggars is high as compared to the female beggars. The study further reveals that beggars typically move toward the highly urbanized areas of the city to earn a good earning. The study suggests that the municipalities and NGOs can work together to get rid of this social problem by implementing the policies and procedures already laid down to accommodate these beggars in the mainstream of society.

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“…They describe them as squatters, lacking land tenure; slums, lacking space durability, water, and sanitation; and informal, implying a lack of formal control over planning, design, and construction. Likewise, slums in Pakistan are considered an inappropriate living settlement due to unsteady buildings, high density, low-quality buildings and infrastructure, poor facilities, and a shortage of amenities [36]. Tenure security is a rule here, but there is no program for improving its conditions except through political patronage [37].…”

Section: Informal Settlementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrated Approach to Explore Multidimensional Urban Morphology of Informal Settlements: The Case Studies of Lahore, Pakistan

et al. 2022

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The understanding of urban morphology as a means of exploring the materiality of urban areas has been an emerging practice amongst academics, but the reach of the methods in urban-design research has been limited. This research presents the integration of GIS application and fieldwork analysis as the main methods to support the interpretation of urban morphology as methodical, exploratory, and multidimensional. The Kolmogorov–Smirnov test, commonly known as the KS test, is also conducted to illustrate a contrast among the settlements. The study focuses on various dimensions of informal settlements by drawing on three case studies of informal settlements in Lahore, Pakistan. The results show heterogeneity in the urban form in terms of land-use diversity, building density, connectivity, open-space ratio, and infrastructural quality within the case-study areas. The analysis displays the context sensitivity and diversity within these settlements that provide a better understanding of how informal settlement works in relation to urban morphology. This research has the characteristics to contribute to other urban-form studies through the coherent application of the procedures to various sites. The output of mixed-use techniques exercised in this study lends itself to integration with other systematic processes related to urban areas’ design, research, and planning.

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Two approaches to the improvement of low-income urban areas — Madras and Orangi

Cited by 8 publications

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Powering sub-Saharan Africa’s urban revolution: An energy transitions approach

Powering sub-Saharan Africa’s urban revolution: An energy transitions approach

Assessment of Spatial Distribution, Characteristics, and Socio-Economic Status of Urban Beggars in Karachi City, Pakistan

Integrated Approach to Explore Multidimensional Urban Morphology of Informal Settlements: The Case Studies of Lahore, Pakistan

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