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Mar 15 2022

3 X 3

Understanding spatial optimization for commercial spaces in homegrown neighborhoods.

#urbz_mumbai
dharavi
#urbz_dharavi
spaceutilisation
mumbai
economy
Feb 22 2022

The Way Up

Vertical Accessibility within Homegrown Developments of Dharavi

#urbz_dharavi
#homegrown #dharavi #urbanization
#homegrown
mumbai
#urbanism
#dharavi
Feb 03 2022

Ranwar - Mumbai's Homegrown Urban Village

A preliminary exploration of Ranwar village, Bandra, one more example of the diverse habitats and typologies that make up the metropolis.

art
architecture
urban village
urban design
street
mumbai
arts of mumbai
Jan 21 2019

How cities emerge from the relationship between land and water

All habitats are made up of the sounds of water, as they flow in and out of people, kitchens, bathrooms and sewers (The Hindu 20.01.19)

#urbz_design
#urbz_livelihood
mumbai
water
transformation
Jan 10 2019

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.

#urbz_mobility
circulatoryurbanism
urbz, mumbai return, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum,
circulatorylives
mumbai
ur
Koli Jamat Community Hall
Nov 16 2018

The Making of the Koli Jamat Community Hall

urbz was involved in the design of a new community building in Dharavi.

#urbz_construction
#urbz_design
koliwada
architecture
dharavi
design
#dharavi
urbanism
mumbai
#homegrown #dharavi #urbanization
collectiveintelligence
user-generated
participation
Jul 13 2017

Khotachiwadi

urbz has been involved with the heritage precinct of Khotachiwadi for nearly a decade. We have organized many events workshops there and produced a strategic plan for the area among other things.

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heritage
preservation
mumbai
village
community
Jul 09 2017

Why Mumbai extends far beyond its metropolitan limits

Transcript of interview in the Hindustan Times.

#urbz_publications
#MumbaiReturn
#urbz_ciculatorylives
#urbz_konkan
#urbz_homegrown
migration
circulatoryurbanism
mumbai
konkan
Jul 07 2017

Mumbai Return exhibition

urbz's exhibition at the Bhau Daji Lad City Museum allows those who make up the city's fabric to put themselves on the map

#MumbaiReturn
#urbz_ciculatorylives
bdlmuseum
mumbai
circulatorylives
migration
urban
rural
development
habitat
May 05 2017

Mumbai-Bogota Mashup workshop

The two ostensibly different cities have so much in common when you look beneath the surface.

#urbz_mashup
#urbz_fiction
bogota
mashup
mumbai
art
participation
Jul 14 2016

Dense With Waste

A prize winning proposal to recycle plastic waste along Mumbai's coastal village of Versova, uses fishing nets and the involvement of the local fishing community.

#urbz_livelihood
#urbz_neighborhood
versova
homegrown
koliwada
mumbai
Jan 03 2016

The Future of Architecture

The future in architecture starts with a good hard look at the world as it is.

#urbz_construction
#urbz_participation
architecture
mumbai
Mar 18 2015

Mumbai's Pavement Dwellers and Their Homes

When pavement dwellers are chased away, which happens often, they have no other option than making a new home on another the sidewalk. 

#urbz_housing
homegrown
mumbai
construction
Sep 29 2014

Bogotá to Bombay

While New York and London house the people that move from city to city, all acquainted with the etiquette of an urban lifestyle, Bogotá and Bombay are cities of villagers on the road to urbanization. 

urbz_bogota
bogota
mumbai
construction
urban development
village
city
Aug 07 2014

Bogotá to Mumbai: Local Innovation For Sustainability

In both Colombia and India, homegrown settlements are present but differ largely in their social make-up. 

urbz_bogota
urbanology
bogota
mumbai
usergenerated
homegrown
community
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. 

#urbz_planning
#urbz_housing
chawls
history
mumbai
community
housing
Feb 18 2014

Should Dharavi be ashamed of itself?

Touring Dharavi, it becomes obvious to many visitors that people in Dharavi might be poor in relative terms, but they are not very ashamed.

#urbz_dharavi
dharavi
mumbai
neighbourhood
informal
settlement
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
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? 

#urbz_housing
construction
urban development
housing
policy
mumbai
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
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