Navi Mumbai Case Study

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One of the main feature of Navi Mumbai that should be highly focused is its housing. Without any doubt, housing plays a crucial role in overall increase of human life standards. It is not new that urban areas are consistently exploding with the rapid growth of citizens. Thus the government of India decided to build houses that could be affordable for population. The main instrument how to achieve this was to apply subsidization. With the advent of Navi Mumbai, there have been constructed over 122,000 of different types of accommodation. Half of them belong to lower income group. If to talk about the division of housing in Navi Mumbai, it should be mentioned two types, such as formal and non formal sectors. To the formal houses it can be referred private houses, co-operative houses, individual houses, and various sites for employees and poor people. Non formal sector mainly includes urban village, traditionally housing, and squatter nodes.
There always existed issues with the land that was privately owned in many parts of Navi Mumbai. In particular, the most persistent problem was t...

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