One foot in the city, one foot in the village: the invisible mobility of urban workers in India
An Op-Ed by Rahul and Matias for the Mobile Lives Forum:
One Space Two Places
Based on a multi-year research with the Mobile Lives Forum on the linkages between Mumbai and Konkan villages this essay, first published in the magazine FuturArc, describes an Indian model of urbanization.
VIA FUTURA: Extension of the Nations tram line in Geneva
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.
Mobility and the metro
Continuing our study of the Mumbai Metro and its impact on homegrown settlements
Broken Nature and Circulatory Lives
Circulatory urbanism featured in the Milan Triennale's (2019) exploration of the threads that connect humans to their natural environments.
Life and death of suburbia
The ideal of integrating town and country must be rebooted. (The Hindu 29.09.18)
Off Track: Mobility before and after colonisation
Railways and the Indian history of mobility. (The Hindu 18.08.18)
Circulatory Urbanism
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).
The road to the city
How renewed attention to urban-rural linkages may reshape the urbanisation debate. (The Hindu 5/11/2017)
Circulatory Lives in Bordeaux
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?
Young, Urban, Mobile
What do young Mumbaikars have to say about their family's rootedness to villages on the Konkan?
Mumbai-Ratnagiri Express
Many families live in between two households: one in the village and another in the city.
Circulating Urbanism
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.
Konkan Diaries: Chiplun
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.