urbz is leading a participatory process for a major transport infrastructure along the United Nations quarters, which connects local, regional and global issues linked to environment, growth and lifestyle.
Continuing our study of the Mumbai Metro and its impact on homegrown settlements
Circulatory urbanism featured in the Milan Triennale's (2019) exploration of the threads that connect humans to their natural environments.
The ideal of integrating town and country must be rebooted. (The Hindu 29.09.18)
Railways and the Indian history of mobility. (The Hindu 18.08.18)
For the past 5 years, urbz has been following families who's lives are spread between Mumbai and their ancestral villages in the Konkan (Western India).
How renewed attention to urban-rural linkages may reshape the urbanisation debate. (The Hindu 5/11/2017)
Hubert, Eloise, Lucie and Chloé have all moved to Bordeaux from different parts of France and live there currently. But what's 'home' for them?
What do young Mumbaikars have to say about their family's rootedness to villages on the Konkan?
Many families live in between two households: one in the village and another in the city.
The Konkan connection to Mumbai is only part of a larger universe in which the city’s force of gravity pulls together many other such regions.
Chiplun’s residents today speak of their connections with Mumbai against this history – which reveals a relationship that is really deep. Chiplun became a gateway for us not just into the Konkan region and its tryst with the railways – but a paradoxical gateway into Mumbai’s heart – back again.