The start of a collaborative initiative that seeks to interweave technical and scientific aspects of architects with knowledge of the local mason and the lifestyle of inhabitants. 

Lowcost housing by Architect B V Doshi, whose planned vision grew very incrementally.

A town which has roots in the Neolithic Age struggles with the ups and downs of modernity. (The Hindu 09.12.2018)

The “Urban Actions and Emergent Architecture:Community Architecture 2019” first Encounter was held in the city of Bogotá, Colombia on the 25th and 26th of October of 2019. This was the first event to ever bring together community leaders, architecture colectivos, professors and students to discuss around the topic of community development initiatives.

The second article in the Makers of the Homegrown series takes a look at Ciudad de Barrios (City of Barrios) in Caracas, Venezuela. It is a compact and clustered neighborhood with a multitude of residents engaged in producing homes, urban space, and the city.

This week, urbz is at the 13th World Urban Forum, joining over 40,000 urban thinkers, policymakers and practitioners from 182 countries gathered in Baku, Azerbaijan, around a pressing question: how do we house the world?

When people take matters into their own hands...community initiated schools in Dharavi

People with various expertise engaged themselves for a pragmatic yet humane urbanism.