UP 504_Dharavi #Chasing the Virus

This podcast is a part of my academic curriculum for 504 History and Urban Theory where I discuss the health and well-being of a city.

Cities are interesting, dynamic, and varied places, but can also be noisy, polluted, difficult to navigate, isolating, and crime-ridden. 54% of the world's population live in cities and this figure is estimated to increase substantially in the coming years. This podcast shall walk you through one such dynamic city Mumbai where our primary focus in on Dharavi – Asia’s largest slum. This podcast shall shed a light on the health conditions, facilities, and infrastructure and how Dharavi tackled covid 19 in the past year.


References:
Research papers:
Kaushal, J., & Mahajan, P. (2021). Asia's largest urban slum-Dharavi: A global model for management of COVID-19. Cities, 111, 103097.

Saha, R., Kajal, F., Jahan, N., & Mushi, V. (2021). Now or never: will COVID-19 bring about water and sanitation reform in Dharavi, Mumbai?. Local Environment, 26(8), 923-929.

Kumar, A., Pareek, V., Narayan, R. K., Kant, K., & Kapoor, C. (2020). Covid-19 in India: Dharavi’s success story. bmj, 370.

Das, M., Das, A., Giri, B., Sarkar, R., & Saha, S. (2021). Habitat vulnerability in slum areas of India–What we learnt from COVID-19?. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 65, 102553.

George, C. E., Inbaraj, L. R., Rajukutty, S., & de Witte, L. P. (2020). Challenges, experience and coping of health professionals in delivering healthcare in an urban slum in India during the first 40 days of COVID-19 crisis: a mixed method study. BMJ open, 10(11), e042171.

News articles:
How Asia's biggest slum contained the virus
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-53133843

Covid 19 containment in Asia's largest urban slum Dharavi, Mumbai, India : Lessons for Policy makers globally
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7437383/
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-mumbai-dharavi-covid-lockdown/