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May 25 2020

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: 

https://en.forumviesmobiles.org/2020/05/19/one-foot-city-one-foot-village-invisible-mobility-urban-workers-india-13304

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Apr 09 2020

Urban Exodus / Another Journey Home?

How a public health emergency prompted a man-made disaster

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circulatoryurbanism
Mar 23 2020

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.

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Sep 09 2019

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.

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Feb 08 2019

Mobility and the metro

Continuing our study of the Mumbai Metro and its impact on homegrown settlements

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Jan 18 2019

Exclusively Unaffordable

How the Mumbai Metro line 3 could affect Dharavi.

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informal
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.

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New metro infrastructure and pre-existing structures in Asalpha
Nov 21 2018

Networked and Unaffordable

How the metro line is affecting a neighbourhood in Mumbai

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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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Nov 08 2017

The road to the city

How renewed attention to urban-rural linkages may reshape the urbanisation debate. (The Hindu 5/11/2017)

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Sep 13 2016

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? 

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Sep 15 2015

Young, Urban, Mobile

What do young Mumbaikars have to say about their family's rootedness to villages on the Konkan?

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Aug 16 2015

Mumbai-Ratnagiri Express

Many families live in between two households: one in the village and another in the city. 

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Dec 10 2012

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.

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Jul 31 2012

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.

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