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.

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

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

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. 

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

Tracing the history of the BDD chawls and what its location and typology mean for future development of the city. 

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

The competition for land, rather than the traditional competition for tenants, was especially exacerbated in sites of growing industrialization and development like Bombay. 

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? 

What does the mutation of colonial Bombay into global Mumbai mean for architectural forms and public life?