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		<title>Paraisopolis-Dharavi News Update</title>
		<link>http://urbz.net/paraisopolis-dharavi-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 20:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>urbzman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are on a backlog of news from Sao Paulo. Here is a nice video by the collective LiveinSlums (Milan/Nairobi) summing up the Sao Paulo Calling event in Paraisopolis, which we are part of. It is in Portuguese, Spanish and English with Italian subtitles! This pretty much covers more than a decent amount of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homegrown Affordable Housing</title>
		<link>http://urbz.net/homegrown-affordable-housing-in-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 06:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matias</dc:creator>
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This  conference aims at expanding the scope of affordable housing initiatives  in India. For the most, affordable housing has been seen as the result  of state interventions responding to the needs of the urban poor. More  recently, non-state actors (both profit driven and charitable) have  entered the market for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The City, the Architect and the Pedreiro</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 05:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marcella</dc:creator>
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The author of this article, Marcella Aruda, is a student of architecture at Escola da Cidade, Sao Paulo, Brazil. She participated in a three days workshop organized by URBZ in Paraisopolis. The students are seen interacting with local builder Ataide in the picture above.

What are the most productive and socially relevant roles that the architect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dharavi Goes to Paraisopolis</title>
		<link>http://urbz.net/dharavi-goes-to-paraisopolis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 01:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matias</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://urbz.net/?p=4387</guid>
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 Click on the image to enlarge it and here to see the photo being exhibited.
Our obsession with mixing and merging urban landscapes and histories just moved to another level. We decided to let go of photoshopping for a bit and actually take a piece of Mumbai to Sao Paulo.
As part of the Sao Paulo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paraisopolis Institute of Urbanology</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matias</dc:creator>
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Paraisopolis (Sao Paulo) viewed from the street. 
URBZ is back in action on the streets of Sao Paulo! We are participating in an exhibition and cities-exchange event between Sao Paulo and 6 cities around the world. Initiated by Elizabete França, the director of the Secretaria da Habitação de Sao Paulo (which oversees more than 50 projects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>URBZ @ domus!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matias</dc:creator>
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Editorial by Joseph Grima: Crowdsourcing the City
Editorial by Matias &#38; Rahul: Homegrown Homes
Download the articles in PDF:
Editorial by Matias Echanove &#38; Rahul Srivastava
Editorial by Joseph Grima
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		<title>Mumbai Contra-CT Workshop Report</title>
		<link>http://urbz.net/jj-affordable-housing-workshop-report/</link>
		<comments>http://urbz.net/jj-affordable-housing-workshop-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>masoom</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://urbz.net/?p=4292</guid>
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About 60 fourth year architecture students from Sir J.J. College of Architecture participated in the Affordable Housing workshop. 
The 3-day long affordable housing workshop was conducted at the J.J. College of Architecture, Mumbai, on January 23rd, 24th and 25th, 2012. It was a follow- up from 6 weeks of 9 groups of students documenting the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Affordable Housing Workshop at JJ</title>
		<link>http://urbz.net/affordable-housing-workshop-at-jj/</link>
		<comments>http://urbz.net/affordable-housing-workshop-at-jj/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matias</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://urbz.net/?p=4279</guid>
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What if neighbourhooods that have been dismissed as slums for decades, where 70% of Mumbai&#8217;s population reside, were in fact the city&#8217;s biggest stock of good quality affordable housing? This is the hypothesis being explored in a workshop currently been conducted at Sir JJ College of Architecture by the URBZ/Urbanology team.
This 3 days workshop follows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chronicles of a Satellite City</title>
		<link>http://urbz.net/chronicles-of-a-satellite-city/</link>
		<comments>http://urbz.net/chronicles-of-a-satellite-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>masoom</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://urbz.net/?p=4167</guid>
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Akurli on left(before) , Fields in between villages in centre(now), Kamothe on right(after)
Navi Mumbai, the twin planned counterpart of an expanding Mumbai has had stories since 1972 which are now being replicated at it’s peripheries. The exploration of these tales as they were before, as they are now and as they seem like they will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Into 2012</title>
		<link>http://urbz.net/into-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rahul</dc:creator>
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We didn&#8217;t realize when we entered into 2012 &#8211; so busy was our agenda. Right now we are in the throes of an exciting pedagogic exercise involving contractors from Mumbai&#8217;s unplanned settlements and about 60 students of the JJ College of Architecture, Mumbai. This is part of the institutions Affordable Housing class and along with [...]]]></description>
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