UNDERSTANDING INCLUSIVE CITIES
Keywords:
Children, desktop research, divided cities, economically weak, gender, Global South, high income, inclusive cities, low income, middle income, multimodal transport, physically challenged, street vendors, street children, Sustainable Development Goal 11, waste pickers, widowed womenAbstract
This paper discusses best practices which aim to bridge different gaps being experienced in the urban spaces of the
global south in order to meet the different components which help to achieve inclusivity.
This paper utilizes secondary data sources. The study depends largely on online desktop research, published papers
and inputs from the classroom seminar discussions. The collected data has been qualitatively and manually analyzed
to come up with the results.
The results firstly outline the observations on how cities in the Global South are divided in terms of: housing locations,
choices, conditions; age; gender; physically challenged; economic strata; and social statuses.
Secondly the paper identifies and highlights the best practices which have been done in some cities of the world with
the aim of bridging the inequalities and achieve inclusivity in their city spaces. The paper finally maps the way forward
and recommends what has to be done to achieve social inclusion, economic inclusion, age inclusion, infrastructure
inclusion, inclusion of special groups.
