Date: January 30th, 2008

Profile of a slum: Dharavi, Part 3

30 January, 2008 (09:57) | Dharavi, Ecosystems, Slums, Theory | 1 comment

Yesterday’s post commenting on the Economist’s lengthy year-end article about Dharavi (Asia’s largest slum) had reached the point of asking, how can one bankrupt a slumlord? 

It takes the output from the government factory: laws and money. 
 
It has become safer for two main reasons.
 
Laws.

[1] One is that in 1976 the state government gave [...]