Description:
The oft-cited UN Habitat report on the 1989-1990 urban resettlement programme in Burma which the report estimates affected 1.5 million people (16 percent of the urban population). "...During the early months of 1990 international attention was focused on
the Yangon squatter clearance and resettlement programme launched by
the Government in 1989. The Mission found that the programme is not limited
to Yangon, but has broad national coverage. The scale and characteristics
of the land-development and other works was considered by the Mission to
be of such overwhelming significance to the present and future urban
situation that the Mission concentrated its resources on attempting to
assemble a comprehensive record of the programme and assessing the
impacts and implications.
The programme consists of: (a) land development for sites-and- services
resettlement schemes, and for complete housing units for public servants;
(b) new and improved roads; (c) urban rail transport; (d) road, rail and
pedestrian bridges; (e) parks and gardens; (f) redevelopment for commercial
and residential uses of sites cleared as a result of resettlement and fires; (g)
clean-up campaigns, building renovations, and repainting of facades; and
(h) rehabilitation of drains and water bodies.
For the size of the overall country population and for an urban population
of less than 10 million, the scale of works within the time period allocated is
probably unprecedented internationally. Based on visits to selected towns,
analysis of maps and layout plans, and the data supplied by GAD and HD,
the Mission estimates that the total population affected by the resettlement
and new housing components is in the order of 1.5 million, or 4 per cent of
the total population, and 16 percent of the urban population. Roughly 50 per
cent of this number is in Yangon, Mandalay, Taunggyi and Bago, all centres
visited by the Mission..."
Source/publisher:
The United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat)
Date of Publication:
1991-00-00
Date of entry:
2007-01-10
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- Individual Documents
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Language:
English
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