Housing Policy & Planning

Lecture 31: Informal Housing Typologies

Dr. Uttam K. Roy

Department of Architecture and Planning

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Recap

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Informal Housing : Characteristics
•Developed on Encroached Land
•Illegal structure on owned land
•No formal transaction as per govt act and informal
transfers
•Robust community development and participation
•Inferior quality of basic services
•Social and cultural degradation
•Livelihood is one of the most important
determinants

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Informal Housing Typologies
•Informal Private Self-help Housing
•Refugee settlements
•Conventional Bustees/Chawls/Jhuggi-
Jhopri/Classical Slums
•Jute Line/industrial Colonies
•Squatter settlements
•Pavement dwellers
•Unauthorised colonies
•Urban villages
Dimensions of Informality
•Ownership of Land/Tenure
•Legal Ownership of Building
•Duration of encroachment
•Level of services and infrastructures
•Livelihood (primary/secondary/tertiary)
•Static or mobile lifestyle
•Family/single
•Formalised as per law
•Quality of Structures
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Planning Intervention for Informal Housing
•Comprehensive situation assessment ( Physical, social,
economic)
•Preventive and Curative Strategies
•Explore land availability
•Explore participatory approaches
•Strategies in a holistic manner considering livelihood
•Determine tenable or non-tenable land
•Relocate for non-tenable lands, Apply suitable models for
tenable slums
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Lecture 32: Approaches in improving Slums &
Squatters

Dr. Uttam K. Roy

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING

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Thank you

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