Urban Housing & Slums

Urban Housing & Slums Book Description

It is a paradox that the number of homeless, squatters and slum dwellers in Indian cities is increasing in proportion to public housing programmes. In spite of ever increasing investments in housing sector, the problem remains stupendous. It is necessary, therefore, to have a hard look at the ongoing policies, processes, plans and programmes and evolve alternative approaches for housing delivery.

Describing the growth and rehabilitation of slums in Delhi, it offers an elaborate discussion on community-based rehousing, integrated Housing and Slum Development Programme, security of land tenure, public housing transformation, and role of private sector in social housing. It also deals with infrastructure development, regularization of unauthorized colonies, emergency shelter housing development and design, systems-based housing production, and cost reduction in construction of shelter. Various policy documents related to slum rehabilitation have been annexed in a CD as well.

About the Author(s)
A.K. Jain is an architect town planner working as Commissioner (Planning), Delhi Development Authority. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Indian National Trust for Culture and Heritage (INTACH), a fellow of the Eastern Asia Region Organization for Planning and Housing (EAROPH), International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISoCaRP), Indian Institute of Architects, Institute of Town Planners and founder member of the Indian Buildings Congress. He studied at the Institute of Housing and Urban Development Studies, Rotterdam and University of Birmingham. He attended UN Habitat Conference at Vancouver (1976 and 2006) and Habitat II, Istanbul (1996). He is on Advisory Board of UN Habitat, and is on Editorial Board of the International Journal of Environmental Studies (UK) and Rites Journal.Jain is a visiting faculty at Delhi School of Planning and Architecture and other institutions. His books include- The making of Planning and Growth of Delhi , Building Systems for Low Income Housing, The cities of Delhi, The Indian Megacity and Economic Reforms, Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Water :A Manual for Engineer, Architects, Planners and Managers.

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