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.
Where affordable housing is scarce but people have tweaked the system and the land to achieve the best possible results in the given circumstances.
The urbz office located in a building on M.G. Road, Dharavi, demonstrates how the conviviality of the live-work dialectic actualizes itself in this particular case.
The connections we evoke between our work in Dharavi, Mumbai and Paraisopolis, Sao Paulo seem to have became a distinct new arc in this multi-city story.
The so-called slums of the city are in many ways attempts at increasing affordable housing units through a different construction and financial system.
Architecture academics makes it difficult for the student to understand the practicality of the profession. This hands-on approach was taken by urbz and the team so that the students could understand the depth of it.
A Paraisopolis-Dharavi Institute of Urbanology to be held next year, where architects and public servants come and learn from residents.
Editorial by Joseph Grima: Crowdsourcing the City