MASS HOUSING IN DEVELOPED AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

MASS HOUSING IN DEVELOPED AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

The previous chapter draws out the process which brought about the ideology of mass housing. This occurred in countries which today we term as developed countries because they have gone through years of positive and negative changes and have tried numerous solutions to come to a concluding solution which best answer the problems associated with housing and especially mass housing development in their countries.

For example, after the First World War in the united kingdom, prime Minister Llyoyd George famously promised houses for heroes , after the poor general health of recruits to military service and factory production became public knowledge. The Tudor Walters report (1918) advocated public subsidy to local authorities to build housing for rent at a recommended density of 12 dwellings per acre(30 per hectare). Estate were typically laid out with a radial concentric street pattern, influenced by neo-classical town planning but distinguished by semi detached or short rows of three to six dwellings designed in the Arcadain (rustic) style.

Governments in the Third World have been content with improving the built environment by purely technical methods primarily improving the securing a high volume of construction without particular regard to determined, not by a thorough analysis of real housing needs, but by the meager financial resources at their disposal and by the productive capacity of their construction industries.

In most of these countries there are no definite regulations regarding the proper subdivision and making use of the land. In some of the countries there exist some regulations and in other such regulation are incorporated in the framework of the general and long term planning.

The rapid increase of population and willingness to live in cities on the one hand and the lack of land policy as caused an improper growth of the city areas. Lack of proper policy and regulations for proper users of land on the other hand causes for citizenship and land creates the most important problems called housing in such countries and in such a way many slum areas are created too.

since housing areas are the places where the problems of the environment touch most people quality of life the planning and design of housing environment touch most people quality of life, the planning and design of housing environments requires a sensitive approach promoting sustainability and good management of infrastructure.