MEDC
- · Crime-Improved police service, improved CCTV, improve areas to make them less run down, Target hardening
- · Congestion and pollution-Congestion charge introduced in 2003, Electronic ticketing making public transport easier to use and making it cheaper, London Cycle Hire Scheme and Cycle Superhighways-cycle around London more easily and safely. Public Transport more accessible.
- · Urban Decay-Kings Cross Station was run down, and was associated with drug use and prostitution. The entire area was refurbished, and is now a hub for most train lines.
- · Demolishing slums and redeveloping the area: Vision Mumbai is a scheme to demolish the all the homes in Dharavi , and redevelop them to build 1.1 million low cost houses in the area. It would give people new houses, but everyone living there would be displaced while the new houses were built
- · Self help schemes to improve living conditions: By creating self help schemes, squatters would be earning their own money, and therefore helping themselves. For example, leather trading is a small scale industry that would provide income for these people.
- · Environmental issues to improve sanitation: Dharavi is on the banks of the Mithi River, which is heavily polluting. This could be reduced by educating people to be more environmentally friendly, stopping industrial waste from being dumped in the river, and building public toilets to deal with untreated sewage.
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