Assessment of Upgrading Slum Neighborhoods Challenge and Prospect

Slums are often economically vibrant. As different researchers indicate that the general term of ‘slum’ describes urban areas that accommodate dilapidated or run down or the worst and deteriorated housing, predominantly by the low income community. In the developing world, one out of every three people alive in the city lives in a slum (UN-Habitat, 2006/7). Nowadays, in excess of 1 billion citizens in developing nations live in urban slum areas, and these locales exist as marginalized spaces (Davis, 2006). Indeed, the prediction signifies that though this container, the slum situation in most developing countries, for the most part in Africa is increasing at an alarming rate is stated in (UN, 2009). This signifies little or no response to the claim for housing and basic services in African cities. Therefore, proposition reversing our consideration of urban development, taking the complicated habitat that is the slum as the change with its system of an incremental development of a city more hospitable to urban differences. The majority are problems live in Slum dwellers in developing countries may be worse off than in rural areas.