Publications

urbz’ projects and texts have been featured in Domus (Milan), The New York Times, the Oxford Encyclopaedia for Urban Planning and Economics, the Oxford University Press Reader on Urban Planning and Economic Development, Strelka Press (Moscow), The Hindu, Times of India, Indian Architect and Builder and global web platforms such as Archdaily.

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MATIAS ECHANOVE, RAHUL SRIVASTAVA

Mumbai: Mess is More - Value and shortcomings of the city’s ad hoc development process, Routledge Handbook of Asian Cities edited by Richard Hu, Routledge, Oxon, New York, 2023

JERRY PINTO

Dharavi Koliwada : Where people are pushed to the edge, Mumbai News, DEC 2022

MATIAS ECHANOVE, RAHUL SRIVASTAVA

Anthropology as Urban Practice: Notes from Mumbai’s Sangam Gully, Azure Magazine, JUNE 2021

MATIAS ECHANOVE, RAHUL SRIVASTAVA

One foot in the city, one foot in the country: The invisible mobility of urban workers in India, Between Borders, Cities and Streets: Experiences of migrants and street vendors, 2021

MATIAS ECHANOVE, RAHUL SRIVASTAVA

In practice: Urbz on the local actors behind Dharavi’s incremental improvements, Architectural Review, JAN 2021

urbz MUMBAI

Dharavi 2020: The Covid-19 challenge, MAY 2021

MATIAS ECHANOVE, RAHUL SRIVASTAVA

Social and Economic Resilience in Dharavi, MAY 2021

MATIAS ECHANOVE, RAHUL SRIVASTAVA

The Design Comes As We Build - Beyond Jugaad’ in: India and Jugaad: The Impact of Innovation by the Resilient Indian Mind on Habitat, Ekistics and the New Habitat, Volume 80, Issue 2, 2020

MATIAS ECHANOVE, RAHUL SRIVASTAVA

Reclaiming Immaterial Spaces, Main feature, FuturArc 3rd Quarter 2020, SEPT 2020

MATIAS ECHANOVE, RAHUL SRIVASTAVA

One foot in the city, one foot in the country: The invisible mobility of urban workers in India, Forum for Mobile lives, MAY 2020

NIRTIKA PANDITA

Hues of Koliwada, Asian Age, FEB 2019

DALREEN RAMOS

Scenes from an urban village, Mid-day, FEB 2019

MATIAS ECHANOVE, RAHUL SRIVASTAVA

Two places, one space, Main feature in FuturArc, SEP-OCT 2018

HEATHER BANERD

The FuturArc Interview, FuturArc, JUL 2018

MATIAS ECHANOVE, RAHUL SRIVASTAVA

Crafting an Aesthetic for Habitats, Tekton Volume 4, Issue 1, MARCH 2017

MATIAS ECHANOVE, RAHUL SRIVASTAVA

What the World can Learn from Dharavi, World Policy Journal, Vol XXXIII, N2, Duke University Press, Durham, JULY 2016

MATIAS ECHANOVE, RAHUL SRIVASTAVA

Speculative Urbanism and Concrete Fictions: The Future as a Resource, Studies in South Asian Film & Media, Vol 6, N2, Intellect Journals, Bristol, 2015

MATIAS ECHANOVE, RAHUL SRIVASTAVA

‘Mumbai’, in Pedro Gadano and Phoebe Springtubb (Eds), Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities, Museum of Modern Art New York, MAY 2015 (with Ensamble/MIT-PopLab)

MATIAS ECHANOVE, RAHUL SRIVASTAVA

Why India should reject China's obsession with bigger, denser megacities, The Guardian, 16 SEPT 2015

MATIAS ECHANOVE, RAHUL SRIVASTAVA

The Village Inside, New Village Press, 2010

The Slum Outside, Strelka Press, 2014

MATIAS ECHANOVE, RAHUL SRIVASTAVA

Empower! Essays on the Political Economy of Urban Form– Vol. 3, Edited by Marc Angélil & Rainer Hehl, Berlin: Ruby Press, 2014

MATIAS ECHANOVE, RAHUL SRIVASTAVA

'Slum' is a loaded term. They are homegrown neighbourhoods', The Guardian, 28 NOV 2014

MATIAS ECHANOVE

Beyond the Informal: Reconceptualizing Mumbai‘s urban development, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, 2013

MATIAS ECHANOVE, RAHUL SRIVASTAVA

Twisted Peripheries: A Blob of Spit, in Archeology of the Periphery, Moscow Urban Forum, Project Meganom, Moscow, 2013

MOEENA HALIM

Building for the community, by the community, Mid-day, AUG 2013

MATIAS ECHANOVE, RAHUL SRIVASTAVA

Homegrown Cities: Back to the Future, Materia Architectura # 7, Santiago, Chile, OCT 2013

MATIAS ECHANOVE, RAHUL SRIVASTAVA

Boom and Bust at the Same Time, The New York Times, 11 JULY 2013

MATIAS ECHANOVE, RAHUL SRIVASTAVA

Homegrown Homes, Domus, No. 955, Milan, FEB 2012

JOSEPH GRIMA

Urbanistica collettiva Crowdsourcing the city, Domus, FEB 2012

MATIAS ECHANOVE, RAHUL SRIVASTAVA

Homegrown Homes:Editorial, Domus, FEB 2012

MATIAS ECHANOVE, RAHUL SRIVASTAVA

Diversity of Built-forms and User-Generated Habitats, Architecture as social history: Reflections on Bombay/Mumbai, Journal of the K. R. Cama Oriental Institute, Mumbai, 2011

MATIAS ECHANOVE, RAHUL SRIVASTAVA

The High Rise & The Slum: Speculative Urban Development in Mumbai, N. Brooks, K. Donaghy & G. Knaap (eds.), Handbook of Urban Economics & Planning, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011

MATIAS ECHANOVE, RAHUL SRIVASTAVA

Hands of Our Houses, The New York Times, 31 MAY 2011

MATIAS ECHANOVE, RAHUL SRIVASTAVA

The Village on the Highway: Trends in Mobility and Urbanization in India, C. Gay, V. Kaufmann, S. Landriève and S. Vincent (Eds.). Mobile, Immobile, Quels choix, quels droits pour 2030. Choices and rights for 2030, Tome 1. La Tour d'Aigues: Editions de l'Aube, 2011.

MATIAS ECHANOVE, RAHUL SRIVASTAVA

'The Village Inside’ in Lynne Elizabeth, Stephen Goldsmith (eds), What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs, New Village Press, New York, FEB 2010

MATIAS ECHANOVE, RAHUL SRIVASTAVA

Audacity, Fiction and Magic in the Mumbai 26/11 Attacks, Website of the Max Plank Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen, AUG 2009