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Local contractors design their ideal Dharavi homes which are exhibited at Zaha Hadid's Maxxi in Rome.
When pavement dwellers are chased away, which happens often, they have no other option than making a new home on another the sidewalk.
The official target of producing millions of quality homes for all can be re-imagined, as one in which the process of construction itself becomes a transformative moment.
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.
After a handstorm workshop to make a variety of user-oriented objects and with a pilot house on its way, a report about the updates of the Homegrown Cities Initiative
Housing must be seen as a process rather than a product: its values lie in the relationship and inter-action between the actors, their activities and the produced house.
While residents may live here and work elsewhere, this neighbourhood also shows a high level of its own economic activities.
In collaboration with local pedreiro Ataide, the urbz team helps build a house in Paraisoplis right from digging the foundations.