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Pavement dwellers

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22: 91:. Others came as a result of a complete breakdown in their livelihoods where they had been living. Pavement dwellers migrate to Mumbai hoping to capitalize on the wealth and job opportunities that the city offers. They are typically forward-thinking, seeking to build lives in the city that give the next generation better opportunities than would have been possible in the village. 53:
as early as the 1940s, and who have lived on the pavement of public roadways ever since. They are completely invisible as far as local, state, and national policies are concerned. People who sleep on or near pavements often pay to keep their belongings in shops, kiosks, or other buildings.
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built on the footpaths/pavements of city streets. The structures use the walls or fences which separate properties from the pavement and street outside. Materials include cloth, corrugated iron, cardboard, wood, plastic, and sometimes also bricks or cement.
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authority to demolish household structures on the sidewalks of Mumbai. With the aid of SPARC, the rights of Mumbai's pavement dwellers were recognised and coexistence was successfully negotiated.
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Patel, Sheela (1990). "Street Children, hotel boys and children of pavement dwellers and construction workers in Bombay - how they meet their daily needs".
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based on a census of about 6,000 households. It showed approximately half of the pavement dwellers to be from the poorest districts in the state of
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Appadurai, Arjun (2013). "Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing: Notes on Millennial Mumbai". In del Pilar Blanco, María; Peeren, Esther (eds.).
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of the Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centers (SPARC), pavement dwellers are primarily first generation migrants who moved to
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University College London: Department for International Development: Urban Government: Capacity Building: SPARC:
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Demolitions to Dialogue: Mahila Milan - learning to talk to its city and municipality
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were a group of evicted families who lived on a main road in
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in 2016, African migrants began living on the pavements of
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Empowering Slum Dwellers: Interview with Sheela Patel
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informal housing
Sheela Patel
Mumbai
We the Invisible
Maharashtra
India
drought
famine
earthquakes
religious persecution
riots
Supreme Court of India
Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai
Symphony Way Pavement Dwellers
Delft
South Africa
Blikkiesdorp
Calais Jungle
Paris
"Electricity to pavement dwellers in Mumbai"
the original
"We, the Invisible: A Census of Pavement Dwellers"
doi
10.1177/095624789000200203
ISSN
0956-2478
S2CID
153522987
ISBN

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