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Mar 29 2022

The View Out

Metal enclosures within Homegrown Developments of Dharavi

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Aug 23 2019

Flooding ourselves

Local knowledge may be the best response to natural disaster and bureaucratic inefficiency (The Hindu 17.08.2019)

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environment
May 29 2019

Broken nature — reassembling the urban

Connecting humans to each other and the environment is the 21st century’s biggest challenge. (The Hindu 25.05.2019)
 

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urban
Aug 03 2018

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).

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Dec 19 2017

Child's Play

Listening to children could help us plan better cities for all (The Hindu 16.12.2017)

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Dec 04 2017

New States, New Possibilities

Emerging political boundaries can help us rethink other categories. (The Hindu 3/12/2017)

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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

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Sep 01 2015

Why India should reject China's obsession with bigger, denser megacities

In the urbanisation race, India seems desperate to catch up with China. Yet this highly networked country can build a future where cities do not rule supreme.

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Nov 10 2012

Religious Sites in Dharavi

Dharavi has developed around temples built on land offered by Muslims,  mosques built on Koli property and churches that spring up between the two. 

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