Slum Clearance and Family Life in Lagos

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ID2497709
AuthorsPeter Marris (Institute for Community Health, corresponding author)
Year1960
Volume19
Issue3
Pages123-128
Publication date1960-09-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHuman Organization (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-7259 • E-ISSN: 1938-3517
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.17730/humo.19.3.43m1533783332734
OpenAlexW2009022516
LanguageEN
Citations received10

Slums are amongst the most obtrusive of social evils. Physical squalor catches the eye; the degradation of human dignity shocks the social reformer, civic pride is outraged, the privileged are uncomfortably reminded of the circumstances in which their fellow countrymen must live. To people who do not live in slums, their demolition seems self-evidently desirable. Yet the slum dwellers themselves often bitterly resent being displaced. Where, as in South Africa, slum clearance is openly undertaken for the protection of the privileged, such a conflict of interests is not surprising. But the conflict also arises where the welfare of the people to be rehoused is the principal aim of policy

Criminology · Demolition · Development economics · Dignity · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Neglect · Political science · Population · Pride · Principal (computer security) · Slum · Sociology · Welfare · Law · Psychology · Urban and Rural Development Challenges

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