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Apr 24 2019

The city: Integration vs Segregation

What looks like a city of aesthetic or economic contrasts may actually be a marker of the relation between urban space and individual agency.

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urban development
urbanology
Urban Planning
urbanism
city
Nov 22 2018

Circulation of Food and Family

the urbz Mumbai team traces back its lunch to the village

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circulatorylives
circulatoryurbanism
village
city
food
dharavi
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Imagining a place where Mahatma Gandhi’s village meets Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar’s city.  Illustration by Hugh Ebdy
Mar 18 2018

Where Gandhi meets Ambedkar

Two powerful archetypes — the village and the city — are resolved in a third one: the slum (The Hindu 18/3/2018)

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village
slum
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Jul 05 2017

Learning through building!

urbz Brasil on its inception, approach, methodology in São Paulo

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brazil
participation
architecture
pedagogy
city
paraisópolis
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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migration
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village
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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city
village
Sep 29 2014

Bogotá to Bombay

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. 

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bogota
mumbai
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city
Image 1: A street view of Ulwe showing the emptiness of the surrounding buildings
Sep 09 2014

Urbanisation and its collateral damage

Planning the planned city of Navi Mumbai. 

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navimumbai
neighbourhood
construction
city
infrastructure
urban development
Mar 31 2013

Piles and Clutter: Rethinking the City's Organisation

The city is never already there; it is a perpetual work in progress. What seems disorderly to the untrained eye is in fact often perfectly sensible.

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city
urban development
toolhouse
Mar 22 2013

Mumbai's Kinetic Exhaustion

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

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mumbai
incremental
homegrown
city
urban development
urbanology
infrastructure
socioeconomic
Conceptual map of the urban system produced at the workshop
Mar 15 2013

Infusing and Confusing India's Urbanness

What began as a regular jostling and tugging of the idea in a brainstorm soon took off as an imaginative exercise that encouraged creative and personal readings of the concept and the making of its visual expressions. 

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delhi
participation
city
art
workshop
Nov 06 2011

Bombay Drift

The small streets in the big city are one of the most important features of Mumbai’s fabric.

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dharavi
bandra
mumbai
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