In-situ slum development
Chennai Tamilnadu India
UPAKRAMA [upa-kra-ma]
Towards a new life, for a better tomorrow.
HUDCO NASA competition
Shortlisted Top 10
Slums have become a pervasive feature of the urban landscape of the developing world. Slums, a generic term to describe informal settlements with poor quality housing, lack of basic essential services and often insecurity of tenure reflects inequality, poverty, and abject human misery. The number of people living in slums is about 65 million i.e. about 17% of the total urban population are living in slums.
“In-situ Slum Redevelopment using the land as Resource�, this approach aims to leverage the locked potential of land under slums to provide houses to the eligible slum dwellers bringing them into the formal urban settlement.
Semester six 2017
