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Redevelopment-Importance of Preserving the Community: Case of Dharavi Project
Table of Contents
1.
Introduction
Redevelopment
in a region carries with it many influences on the local community of the
region. The community of the region is the element that is affected by the
consequences of the redevelopment regardless of whether they are positive or
negative. Hence, every redevelopment plan should consider the local community
as the one of the most critical element and should further make them an active
member.
The
local community participation and making them the centre stage of the changes
that are going to take place should be the core strategy of the redevelopers.
Any redevelopment carried out without keeping local community in perspective
can result in discontentment among the community, create feelings of distrust
towards the redevelopers, can create acts of clashes within the community or
with the government and can even alter community value structures. For
instance, if highly modernized redevelopment takes place suddenly across a
culturally rich community then it is bound to affect the individuals of the community
and especially the youngsters creating imbalance.
The
present research aims to study the influences of redevelopment on the community
residing in the slums of Dharavi, one of the biggest informal settlements
across the world. A key aspiration of the study is to analyse the various
facets of the community and conduct an in-depth analysis of theoretical
framework of community. Further the theoretical underpinning is then compared
with the case of the redevelopment project being carried out in the community
of Dharavi. The study will reflect upon the scenario of the Dharavi
redevelopment project and will analyze how the redevelopment plan is ignoring
the role of the people of the community. Further the dissertation will also
talk about the relation between the stakeholders. Building upon these, the
dissertation will study the agenda of the government and how government policy
has affected the redevelopment plan and its impact on the Dharavi community.
The
findings highlight the need of recognising the diversity within a community and
acknowledging the diversities to design a redevelopment project conducive for
the needs of the whole community. Further recommendations are provided on how
the redevelopment plans can be made more community based and participatory.
Section
1: A review of Community definitions and various facets of Community
Section 1 of this dissertation will explore the
different ways in which community is defined by academics as well as through
policy and politics. This includes the key features of a community; what it
generally consists of and the different interpretations of community by
different elements or stakeholders, especially the people that make up the
community. Further, the introduction will also reflect on the implications of
these concepts and features of community in the context of the redevelopment
plans in Dharavi.
Though the researcher has attempted to explore a
good deal of past literature by exploiting secondary resources, however,
several of unpublished sources or inability to access several other piece of
literature might have occurred. Hence, this review can be seen as only a part
of literature on the subject that is synthesized by the researcher by reviewing
through own viewpoint.
1.1.
Community
in General
The
term “community” comes from the ancient latin term “communitas” which actually
means comrade or well structured society (Messing,2009). In Communities,
purpose, faith, resources, choices and hazards are some of the influencing
variables that are common and they impact upon the behaviour and identity of
the participants of the community and their mutual bonding.
In
today’s times, an ideal definition of community would include mutual ethics,
shared individual care among fellows, and concern for one another (Peck, 1987).
This idea strengthens the 'communitarian' idea of social equality, wherein
nationality essentially involves shared responsibilities deprived of which
discrete rights would not be imaginable. According to Dwyer (2004), “a solid
logic of 'community', described here as 'an entity with certain shared
standards, rules and objectives wherein every adherent aspect it is where the
shared objective is as their own', is a general requirement for communitarians.
Hence it can be said that Community makes distinct independence promising by
guarding and supporting its adherents and is capable to ask for and defend
distinct faithfulness to mutually described responsibilities and exercises that
are specific and definite to a selected community.
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