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Write short note: Social consequences of unplanned urban growth.

  • UPSC 1998
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

Unplanned urban growth in India is a failure of land, not of migrants. Cities that need cheap labour while pricing land beyond its reach produce informal settlement as a matter of arithmetic, and the social consequences follow from that unmet housing need rather than from urban size.

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  • The slum as the housing arm of the informal economy
  • Segregation and the persistence of ascription
  • Strain on family and community
  • Crime, stigma and the politics of the address
  • The making of political society
  • Conclusion

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