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May 07 2021

New Horizons

 How can social and digital empowerment fuel positive growth for Dharavi's SMEs?

#urbz_economy
Dharavi_SME
socioeconomic
Small and Medium Enterprises
economy
dharavi
Apr 16 2021

Spatial dimension of businesses in Dharavi

Dharavi is a prime real estate location due to its closeness to public transport systems, business districts, as well as ecological hotspots. The proximity of living quarters to where individuals work, often from within households, brings both benefits and challenges to households and businesses.

#urbz_economy
Dharavi_SME
socioeconomic
Small and Medium Enterprises
economy
dharavi
Apr 02 2021

Supply Chain Networks

Dharavi is a frenetic engine of entrepreneurship characterized by variety, innovation, recycling, and reuse. While the Indian economy is in a historic slump that is predicted to take years to recover, residents and workers in Dharavi are starting to return to the city as industries and their allied supply chains are beginning to open up.

#urbz_economy
Dharavi_SME
socioeconomic
Small and Medium Enterprises
economy
dharavi
Mar 26 2021

Social and Economic Resilience in Dharavi

Dharavi embodies an efficient pre-industrial live-work paradigm. This is now desired and interpreted in post-industrial societies, and more so in the Covid-19 era, as a sustainable lifestyle.

#urbz_economy
Dharavi_SME
socioeconomic
Small and Medium Enterprises
economy
dharavi
Aug 28 2016

From Dharavi to Rome

Local contractors design their ideal Dharavi homes which are exhibited at Zaha Hadid's Maxxi in Rome. 

#urbz_design
#urbz_housing
construction
socioeconomic
maxxi
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. 

#urbz_housing
#urbz_planning
#urbz_dharavi
housing
dharavi
mumbai
socioeconomic
Mar 22 2013

Mumbai's Kinetic Exhaustion

What does the mutation of colonial Bombay into global Mumbai mean for architectural forms and public life?

#urbz_planning
mumbai
incremental
homegrown
city
urban development
urbanology
infrastructure
socioeconomic
Nov 07 2012

Russian Doll

From a small Italian village, to a city like Milan, to a metroplis like Chile and finally to Dharavi, Francesco finds similarities and differences among the different scales.of habitats. 

#urbz_fieldnotes
dharavi
chile
socioeconomic
livelihood
Nov 29 2011

Tale of Two Villages

Similarities between urban villages in Mumbai and Italy. 

#urbz_neighborhood
village
socioeconomic
livelihood
The government is providing water via water tankers since it has not yet been able to implement water pipes. Toilets have been built but they are still not opened. Open drains have been set up but are not connected. The planning of Sawda Ghevra is a total disaster. Photo mHS.
Mar 04 2011

Unsettling Delhi

Micro homes which integrate spaces of work and are well connected to the street economy seem to be far more viable on the longer run at all levels.

#urbz_neighborhood
delhi
relocation
housing
socioeconomic
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