Author: Shahed Anwer Khan
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Diss no. HS-92-01
Year: 1992
Academic Program: Human Settlement (HS)
Type: Thesis (Ph.D.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 1992
Examination Committee: Yap Kioe Sheng (Chairperson); A.T.M. Nurul Amin (Co-Chairperson); F.W. Swierczek, Aprodicio A. Laquian, (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: The positive role of informal settlements in supplying affordable housing to the urban poor and the importance of perceived security of tenure of the residents in improving living conditions within such settlements have long been established throughout most of the developing countries. Evictions within informal settlements, however, continue to prevail whereby the usable housing stock is reduced and the perceived security of tenure is drastically lowered. This study ascertains the rates of eviction prevalent in three Asian cities: for Bangkok 1.55 percent, for Karachi 0.60 percent, and for Seoul 6.15 percent. It then attempts to explain why eviction rates vary among different cities by studying the factors that influence the occurrence of evictions. Among factors operating at the city level, basically two sets of factors were observed. The first set bears a negative impact on informal settlements with regard to evictions. Factors belonging to this set stem mainly from unequal economic development and were found manifest in land market transformations, and the role of the city administration. The second set of factors bear pressure upon the city administration to incorporate the informal settlements into the city system. These factors grow out of the socio-political context and were · manifested in the degree of social integration of the residents of informal settlements’ residents into the city and their political power. The nature and extent of resistance to evictions as a reaction to prevailing evictions in a city was found to be determined by the manner in which a society views the residents of informal settlements. It is the result of historical context in which the growth of informal settlements has come about and the local culture. When evictions occur in a city, it is found that not all informal settlements experience evictions equally because certain attributes of the individual settlements affect their vulnerability to eviction. These attributes were found to belong to two gr
Scholarship Donor(s): Government of Australia
Note: A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, School of Engineering and Technology
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