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The SLUM Team - Public policies regarding urban poverty: the "treatment" of the slum problem, a comparison between Delhi, Sao Paulo, Rio and Mumbai
N. Bautès (coordinator India-Brazil), M.C. Saglio-Yatzimirsky, V. Dupont, M.C. Belle, I. Guérin, U. Ramanathan, R. Soares Gonçalves, M. Virginia de Souza, Maria de Fatima Cabral Marques Gomes, Lenise Lima Fernandes.
Public policies regarding urban poverty for the “treatment” of slums in Mumbai, São Paulo, Delhi and Rio. Three approaches, namely territorial, socio-political and legal, are adopted simultaneously, in the way to understand the complexity of processes that are characterizing the slums concerned by public policies.Problem
Megacities faced with the problem of fast-spreading slums
Slums and favelas have not developed in the same context or under the same constraints. A preliminary objective of the research will be to examine the factors, socio-economic as well as political, that favour their emergence. Whether it is the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, which appeared towards the end of the 19th century or the slums of Delhi born in the 1950s, the first issue was to admit that they constituted a major “urban problem” (...)
Methods of Research
Territorial approach
Slums, which are situated outside municipal limits (the majority in Sao Paulo), or take root in the narrow spaces between affluent districts (as in the case of Delhi and Mumbai or on the hills in the centre of Rio), develop an entire economy in interaction with the urban fabric. In this context, the model establishing a dichotomy between the centre and the periphery seems to have made way for a complex socio-spatial model juxtaposing pockets of poverty and affluent (...)
