Slum Development Case Study

The second very important issue to note is that slum growth is mainly a social aspect than it is physical. When architects appeal to the social lives of individuals, the architects can easily get a better solution to the slum problems. To achieve a social agenda when dealing with slums, architects can refer to the modern movement which, with its profound technology allowed architects to define the social status of people with the new age. Moffett et al (2004) writes that in the Modernist era, buildings and urban plans were viewed as instruments of social change. They were able to dictate, and hopefully improve social behavior among users. The modernist architects looked at the world as chaotic and dangerous and needed to be orderly. With this same utopian idea, the architects can try to reorganize the disorderly Kasanvu zone slum. However,

The Uganda government has put in effort to provide better social services like clean water supply, drainage system, sanitation facilities, solid waste management facilities, and electricity in order to contribute towards improving the living conditions in urban slums for example in the 1984 project of upgrading the Namuwongo slum, launched by the government and the Un- Habitat. However, these efforts have been futile

Despite the efforts by the government to improve the living conditions in the Kasanvu slum, the slum is growing more rapidly. This is partly because of the little input from the architecture profession. Some of the aspects of architecture that can be of help in the upgrading of Kasanvu have been explained. However, there still remains a challenge to researchers to establish a particular strategy to eradicate slum