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Jul 16 2021

Multifunctional Buildings of Sangam Gully

Study of the multifunctionality of houses in Sangam Gully through visuals

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toolhouse
homegrown
dharavi
housing
affordable housing
New metro infrastructure and pre-existing structures in Asalpha
Nov 21 2018

Networked and Unaffordable

How the metro line is affecting a neighbourhood in Mumbai

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#urbz_livelihood
#urbz_neighborhood
transformation
infrastructure
mobility
informal
affordable housing
housing
Nov 08 2017

The road to the city

How renewed attention to urban-rural linkages may reshape the urbanisation debate. (The Hindu 5/11/2017)

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circulatorylives
circulatoryurbanism
housing
Sep 21 2017

CASA DO ATAIDE

Workshop da construção civil / Civil construction Workshop in Sao Paulo

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brazil
construction
housing
Jul 30 2017

Mess is more

Recent research in Dhaka show that accommodation and housing are related but distinct needs. (The Hindu, 30.07.17)

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housing
dhaka
community
Jul 13 2017

Homegrown cities

This experiment in affordable housing led to the co-designing and construction of a small house in Shivaji Nagar, in Govandi. A neighbourhood in Mumbai that is struggling against all odds to keep growing and improving.

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housing
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Aug 31 2016

Form Follows Recognition

Recognizing patterns and processes are crucial to urban practice. The role of architects as agents of incremental growth needs to be emphasised over that of creators of a future that doesn’t yet exist.

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housing
informal
architecture
utopia
May 23 2014

Cairo: User-Driven Housing Construction

Housing must be seen as a process rather than a product: its values lie in the relationship and inter-action between the actors, their activities and the produced house.

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construction
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May 09 2014

Morden Mumbai: Revisiting BDD Chawls.

Tracing the history of the BDD chawls and what its location and typology mean for future development of the city. 

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chawls
history
mumbai
community
housing
Feb 26 2014

Shivaji Nagar M Ward

While residents may live here and work elsewhere, this neighbourhood also shows a high level of its own economic activities.

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shivajinagar
toolhouse
incremental
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construction
Nov 05 2013

The Dharavi Paradox

Does Dharavi reveal a contemporary urban model that defies functional urbanism?

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homegrown
incremental
livelihood
housing
Oct 18 2013

Occupancy versus Ownership

The competition for land, rather than the traditional competition for tenants, was especially exacerbated in sites of growing industrialization and development like Bombay. 

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housing
dharavi
mumbai
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Sep 05 2013

Affordable Housing in Mumbai: 100 Years of Failed Experiments

How to provide housing for all classes of people who need it, taking their varied livelihoods  into account, while balancing their relative abilities to invest in housing? 

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construction
urban development
housing
policy
mumbai
Jul 11 2013

The Life of a Lane in Sakinaka

Architecture relies on inputs of the occupants to incrementally design a house extension in Sakinaka. 

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architecture
construction
housing
homegrown
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Jun 02 2013

The Homegrown Cities Project

How local, community owned and managed housing co-operatives, can be a vital step towards improving the neighbourhoods, bringing good quality civic infrastructure and making the city genuinely ’slum-free’.

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Jun 22 2012

Top of the World: Amrut Nagar

Where affordable housing is scarce but people have tweaked the system and the land to achieve the best possible results in the given circumstances. 

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housing
construction
affordable
homegrown
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user
Mar 21 2012

Homegrown Affordable Housing

The so-called slums of the city are in many ways attempts at increasing affordable housing units through a different construction and financial system.

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homegrown
affordable
local
housing
affordable
user-generated
Jan 10 2012

Chronicles of a Satellite City

Local newspapers doubled, tripled and eventually quadrupled with classifieds about the shiny, affordable, chic new buildings with swimming pools coming up in every empty corner.

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#urbz_planning
housing
navimumbai
Aug 08 2011

Aranya: A story of incremental development

Lowcost housing by Architect B V Doshi, whose planned vision grew very incrementally.

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affordable
incremental
housing
Jul 03 2011

The 2.5 Lakh Rupee House

Local contractor Amar Madhukar Nirjankar constructs the most affordable house for one of his clients in Bhandup's homegrown neighbourhood.

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affordable
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