Urban Planning for the Urban Poor Flashcards

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What is a self-help scheme (site improvement) for the urban poor?

Residents are given materials, loans or training, and often legal rights to their land, so they can improve their own homes.

What is a site and service scheme?

People are given a plot of land already connected to basic services such as water, electricity and sewerage, on which they build their own home.

Give one way providing clean water and better sanitation in a slum improves quality of life.

It reduces the incidence of water-borne disease, so fewer people (especially children) fall ill or die.

Give one way granting legal ownership rights and brick-built housing improves quality of life for the urban poor.

Residents no longer face the danger of eviction, so stress is reduced and they feel secure enough to invest in improving their homes.

True or false? Urban planning for the urban poor is limited to improving housing.

False. It also includes services such as water and sanitation, adult education and training to improve job prospects, and transport to improve access to employment.