How has 23 years (1990 – 2013) of war contributed to slum build up in Kabul City and its subsequent effect on the developing housing process and existing housing conditions?
The year 1978 saw a coup in Kabul that resulted in foreign and civil war within Afghanistan that’s still being continued till present day. The man made disasters have caused over three million Afghan civilians to migrate to 75 countries around the world and hundreds and thousands more to internally migrate. With many people being displaced and homeless, slums began to sporadically appear around various major cities.
Rather than thinking about slums as a negative, why not consider it as an unavoidable consequence of development, even maybe a positive indicator of progress?
Links for arguments to that effect...
http://www.londonlovesbusiness.com/lifestyle/london-culture/book-review-the-triumph-of-the-city-by-edward-glaeser/182.article
http://longnow.org/seminars/02005/apr/08/cities-and-time/
People will delay investment when there is uncertainty resulting from conflict (for example, uncertainty of whether they will soon have to move again). A standard expected utility model which accounts for risk preferences can offer a textbook explanation for delaying these investments or never making them.
Mostly Afghans are marginalised tribal society who even in there own country mainly live in huts. After the migration in order to earn the lively hood they started dwelling around the economic hubs , moreover as they do not have the much needed resources so the managed temporary shelters around the cities. In Pakistan such dwellings can be seen around Quetta, Peshawar.