Shanty town and city: The case of Poona

Bapat, Meera

doi:10.1016/0305-9006(81)90001-5

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“…Pune has been an important city politically and culturally since early modern times [100]. Since Indian independence the city has witnessed an enormous growth: In 1941 the Pune agglomeration had 375,000 inhabitants [101], in 2011 Pune was the ninth largest agglomeration of India and the eighth largest agglomeration and presently (2020) the agglomeration has approximately 6.6 m inhabitants [1]. Pune has been actively promoted as second industrial hub in Maharashtra (besides Bombay/Mumbai).…”

Section: The Three Metropolitan Regionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Changing Hydrosocial Cycles in Periurban India

Butsch

Chakraborty²,

Gomes

et al. 2021

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India’s urbanisation results in the physical and societal transformation of the areas surrounding cities. These periurban interfaces are spaces of flows, shaped by an exchange of matter, people and ideas between urban and rural spaces—and currently they are zones in transition. Periurbanisation processes result inter alia in changing water demands and changing relations between water and society. In this paper the concept of the hydrosocial cycle is applied to interpret the transformation of the waterscapes of six periurban villages in the fringe areas of Pune, Hyderabad and Kolkata. In doing so, three specific aspects will be investigated: (1) the institutions shaping the hydro-social cycle, (2) the interplay between water as a livelihood-base and the waterscape, (3) the interplay between the waterscape and water as a consumption good. This approach opens new views on periurban interfaces as emerging mosaic of unique waterscapes. The meaning of water, the rights to access water and the water related infrastructure are constantly renegotiated, as permanently new water demands emerge and new actors enter the scene. Especially this process-based understanding links the theoretical lens of the hydrosocial cycle with the object of investigation, the periurban space.

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Section: The Three Metropolitan Regionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Changing Hydrosocial Cycles in Periurban India

Butsch

Chakraborty²,

Gomes

et al. 2021

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“…Yerawada is located in the northeast of the city on the northern bank of the Mutha River (Figure 1). The area emerged as a squatter settlement on state-owned land in the 1960s when growing industries attracted flows of workers [39]. Land ownership in Yerawada is a mix of private and state government [40].…”

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confidence: 99%

Improvising Places: The Fluidity of Space in Informal Settlements

Kamalipour

2020

Sustainability

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This paper engages with how the incremental production of space works in informal settlements. As one of the critical challenges of urbanism in the cities of the global South, informal settlements cannot be simply addressed through ruthless practices of demolition and eviction since they can often be incrementally upgraded on the same site. Such practices of upgrading rely on a sophisticated understanding of how urban morphology and adaptation work in informal settlements. In this paper, I focus on the fluidity of space by drawing on a case study of an informal settlement in Pune, India. The key research methods are observation and visual recording. The results of this study provide a better understanding of how informal settlements work in terms of urban morphologies and adaptations. Such an understanding plays a significant role in exploring how the capacities of informality can be developed in consistency with the incremental upgrading of codes regarding public open space, access network, construction, and functional mix. This paper contributes to the ways in which built environment professions can effectively engage with incremental transformations of informal settlements.

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“…Khlong Toei is a district located a few kilometres south of the commercial centre of Bangkok that incorporates both very large and smaller settlements. Most of these settlements emerged in the 1960s when job opportunities became available in proximity to the adjacent port authority (Askew, 2002;Berner & Korff, 1995). The khlong runs east-west and for much of this length is now covered by an eight-lane elevated expressway which overlooks much of the larger informal settlement on port land to the south.…”

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Mapping the visibility of informal settlements

Kamalipour

Dovey²

2019

Habitat International

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Informal settlements in cities of the global South are generally identified by a dense, small-grain and irregular urban morphology. Such neighbourhoods are rarely entered by those from the formal city and their visibility within the urban landscape can have a significant impact on decisions over whether and how they might be upgraded or demolished. This paper explores this issue from the perspective of the role of topography and urban morphology in mediating the gaze from the formal to the informal city. A simple typology of spatial visibility is developed according to whether the formal gaze is an overview or streetview, and whether it is private or public. This framework is then used to map the visibility of three case studies at district scale in the cities of Bangkok (Thailand), Pune (India) and Medellin (Colombia). These cases are then used to illustrate how different types and degrees of visibility are introduced or erased through different forms of urban design, transport infrastructure, high-rise development and public policy. We conclude by discussing different approaches to the transformation of place identity: concealing or revealing informal settlements on the one hand, and blurring or accentuating informal/formal distinctions on the other.

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Shanty town and city: The case of Poona

Cited by 10 publications

References 6 publications

Changing Hydrosocial Cycles in Periurban India

Changing Hydrosocial Cycles in Periurban India

Improvising Places: The Fluidity of Space in Informal Settlements

Mapping the visibility of informal settlements

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