Date: January 29th, 2008

Profile of a slum: Dharavi, Part 2

29 January, 2008 (12:22) | Dharavi, Ecosystems, Slums, Theory | 1 comment

As begun in yesterday’s post, the Economist’s lengthy year-end article about Dharavi (Asia’s largest slum) vividly and sympathetically show us life for Mumbai’s poor, and also illustrates so many of the principles about which I’ve previously posted.
Slums are where housing has outrun public infrastructure, and since there ain’t no such thing as free infrastructure, [...]