Critical issues of low-income dwellers in urban planning

Niriella, NC

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dc.contributor.author	Niriella, NC
dc.date.accessioned	2013-11-11T16:05:55Z
dc.date.available	2013-11-11T16:05:55Z
dc.date.issued	2013-11-11
dc.identifier.uri	http://dl.lib.mrt.ac.lk/handle/123/8967
dc.description	This paper aims to address the some critical issues connected with the low-income dwellers in South Asian cities, particularly in the city of Colombo. It also attempts to examine the failure of policy interventions which were designed to address the issues. In this connection, many governments force low-income dwellers to settle outside the city, but this intensifies the hardships of the factory and casual workers, forcing them to trek every day long distance to reach their work place. On the other hand, city planners have provided low-cost housing in an attempt to save the low-income dwellers from squalor and disease but most such city dwellers were however disinclined to move in for reasons of their own, viz., comparatively high rent & bills, distance from place of work, attachment to place of present residence and neighbors. Also, the lack of genuine interest or ability to stand shoulders apart from the downtrodden and look into the matter from a hands-on perspective, coupled with politically charged separation of people contributes to only prolong the issues. Therefore, the role of state housing provision to the low-income dweller in cities has to be defined as to provide opportunities to satisfy, as far as practicable, housing needs, according to what people can afford and where they would like to live, not only to provide housing but to create a better living environment for residents.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject	Built Environment	en_US
dc.subject	City Structure	en_US
dc.subject	Urban Poor	en_US
dc.subject	Urban Social Issues	en_US
dc.subject	Sustainable Human Settlements 1. Introduction This paper	en_US
dc.title	Critical issues of low-income dwellers in urban planning	en_US
dc.type	Conference-Full-text	en_US
dc.identifier.year	2012	en_US
dc.identifier.conference	ICSBE-2012: International Conference on Sustainable Built Environment	en_US
dc.identifier.place	Kandy, Sri Lanka	en_US
dc.identifier.email	niriellage@gmail.com	en_US