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Write short note: Urban decay: the culture of overcrowded neighbourhoods and slums in industrial cities.

  • UPSC 1986
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

Urban decay in India is not the slow ageing of buildings but the social consequence of capital leaving a district it once built. The mill quarters of Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Kanpur and Kolkata were purpose-built workers' neighbourhoods; they decayed when the mills closed, not when their residents changed.

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  • Decay as a process, not a condition
  • The chawl and the overcrowded neighbourhood
  • Examining the "culture" claim
  • Conclusion

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