Title: Upgrading Slum Infrastructure: Divergent Objectives in Search of a Consensus
Article in: Third World Planning Review, Vol. 5, No. 1
Authors: Shlomo Angel
First published: February 1983
Pages: 5-22
Overview: Infrastructure programmes are being pursued in many developing countries and we should be able to understand the underlying motives for pursuing them. To do so, instead of asking ‘What are the objectives for the improvement of infrastructure in low-income settlements?’ We must first ask ourselves, ‘whose objectives?’ There is no a priori reason to assume that all the participants in the slum and squatter upgrading process share the same objectives. Indeed, we must carefully examine the differences between these objectives.
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