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EPISODE · Apr 28, 2025 · 23 MIN

Mumbai’s Slum Rehabilitation Scheme

from Streets In The Sky · host Cambridge Public Heath

In episode two, we switch our focus to Mumbai, in which about six million people live in slums. The Indian government is focused on what it calls slum rehabilitation, but work by researchers at Cambridge suggests that the new tower blocks, which resemble those built in London in the post-war period, lead to as many public health problems as they do solutions.

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