Urbanization and Spatial Manifestation of Substandard Accommodations

A Case of Census Towns in Trans-Yamuna Delhi

Abstract

City is a place that provides number of opportunities for socio-economic development, better facilities for education and health, and space for prosperity. Housing is one of the important basic requirements for the human survival particularly in urban areas where more than 50 percent of world population lives. However, at the same time, cities are unable to provide adequate and affordable housing for all who join cities for various purposes. Consequently, poor and lower-income people tend to accept to live in the substandard poor quality housing. The present study is conducted in the Trans-Yamuna part of NCT-Delhi comprising of two districts with 22 Census Towns, experiencing rapid growth of newly built infrastructure. Looking at their urban growth, the houses are poorly constructed which are neither sustainable nor durable. The paper evaluates the housing condition in the selected Census Towns going to pose a serious threat to the sustainable urbanization in the administrative capital of India, and to achieve sustainable development goal-11 on sustainable cities.