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Document Type:	General
Publish Date:	2012
Primary Author:	Renate Bornberg, Haluk Uluşan
Edited By:	Arsalan Hasan
Published By:	Journal of Comparative Cultural Studies in Architecture

Dharavi, formerly a fishermen´s village on one of the islands today forming Greater Mumbai, India, is currently Asia´s biggest slum. Approximately 1 Mio people live here without proper sanitation, drainage systems, paved roads, and in an environment where every inch is occupied with small houses, many covered with plastic tarps or corrugated iron roofs. Particularly the rising middle and lower upper class of Mumbai sees the area as filthy, backward, and dangerous and thus this slum should be removed to make way for new homes for themselves.