Socio-physical liveability through socio-spatiality in low-income resettlement archetypes - A case of slum rehabilitation housing in Mumbai, India

《Socio-physical liveability through socio-spatiality in low-income resettlement archetypes - A case of slum rehabilitation housing in Mumbai, India》

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作者: Ahana Sarkar;Ronita Bardhan

来源: CITIES,Vol.105,Issue1,Article 102840

语言: 英文

关键字: Slum rehabilitation housing;Socio-physical liveability;Socio-spatiality;Low-income archetypes;Built-environment indicators

作者单位: Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, CB2 1PX, United Kingdom;Centre for Urban Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai 400076, India;Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, CB2 1PX, United Kingdom;Centre for Urban Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai 400076, India

摘要: This study looks into the socio-physical liveability through socio-spatiality in low-income settlement archetypes. Paradoxically, recently mushrooming slum rehabilitation housing which have delivered secured tenure to its inhabitants, face threats of being deserted from lack of socio-physical liveability. Recurring of informality issues has advocated to investigate the reasons behind the ‘rebound’ phenomenon. This study explores the efficacy of socio-spatiality and its linkages with socio-physical liveability, taking Mumbai slum rehabs as case study. A comparative analysis of the current built-environment indicators and liveability status of major informal archetypes was performed, followed by analyses of the socio-physical problems associated with it. A critical evaluation of the rehabilitation housing of Mumbai highlights the problems caused by the current dense built-environment design. Reflecting on global instances, this article demonstrates the significance of socio-spatiality and suggests environmentally sustainable indicator-based built-environment recommendations, which if implemented in the forthcoming slum rehab housing planning, would enhance well-being and liveability among the low-income sector in future. While analysing the ‘rebound’ phenomenon, this study delivered a heuristics of socio-physical liveability, built-environment and their respective indicators. This method would aid the architects, planners and policymakers in reshaping the forth-coming built-environment while safeguarding the socio-physical liveability of the low-income sector.