Urban Renewal Slum Development Practices in Developed and Developing Countries: A Special Focus on its Applicability in Kabul, Afghanistan

摘要

Urban Renewal can be said to be the process where an urbanneighborhood or area is improved, rehabilitated or redeveloped.The renewal process involves a wide range of activities which mayinclude demolishing or tearing down old buildings, constructingnew up-to-date housing and adding new urban amenities. Overallthe practice was so similar in US and Nigeria, both countries haveincluded public participation in the process, the only differencewas that US have involved private sector at the beginning of theproject and China has completely followed a different module,they developed the urban renewal project only by the Governmentand community’s participation. In conclusion through theinternational experiences which took place under the urbanrenewal program, we have determined a number ofrecommendations in bellow due to deal with the slum problemsand to make the method applicable for Kabul city.1. People should be involved and aware from the entire project.2. Religious and historical buildings should be preservedaccording to their cultural value.3. Majority of the owners who have legal title deed should agreewith the redevelopment plan due to let the project proceed.4. The landowners who have affected by the project they shouldbe given new apartments inside the project site based on thevalue, location, size and legal description of their previous lots.5. For covering the cost of the big UR projects, government caninvolve the private sector in the process.6. Due to the corruption and long administrative processes,private sector is not willing to invest in Afghanistan; thereforegovernment should provide some financing tools such as taxexemption and subsidies. Furthermore, providing of theadministrative relief in respect to the approval of the projectscan be more effective in attracting private capital investment.