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frequency of the diverse elements which were identified in the drawings.

Table 1: Frequency of house unit related elements
Elements related to the house unit Frequency (N)
Single detached house 18
Garden 18
Roof terrace 10
Fences or protective walls around the house 9
Car and/or motorbike 6
Water tap 4
Private garage 3
Bathroom / toilet 2
Other (fire extinguisher, extended family houses, seaside view, specific house spaces, items such as a 1
garage, Pooja room, water tank on top of the house, clothes hanger, washing machine, dustbin and a
fan)
Table 2: Frequency of surrounding environment related elements

Elements related to the surrounding environment Frequency
Road 14
Hospital 13
School 12
Grocery store / market / shopping facilities 11
Playground for children or park 11
Bus stop 8
Street lights 4
Job / office 4
Ration Station/shop 4
Temple 3
Pharmacy 2
Other (CSR course, beach, seaside view, city centre, police station) 1

The “dream home” In many instances the house that flowering plants (See figure 2).
The participants clearly was drawn had more than one Another common feature of the
expressed through their floor, with distinct architectural house that was represented in
drawings their desire for a single features which were common half of the drawings, was the
detached house. All of them to housing typologies found in existence of some sort of fence or
drew a house sitting in a plot wealthier neighbourhoods. A protective wall surrounding the
surrounded by a garden (See recurrent feature of the houses house, outside of which urban
figure 1). The houses they lived that were drawn was a roof facilities were distributed (See
in the slums from where they terrace (10 of N=18). One of these figure 3).
were displaced and resettled terraces contained a large water
were single storey structures. tank and most of them contained

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