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Nov 21 2018

Delta V: Neighbourhood project

This innovative plan for a new neighbourhood in the town of Versoix in Geneva will be presented at the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel (S AM).

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participatory planning
Feb 09 2018

Proyecto Manila

The story of participatory planning in Bogota

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#urbz_community
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participatory planning
bogota
community
social design
colombia
Oct 20 2017

A Humane City

Anyone who has commuted on trains during rush hour knows there’s something deeply tolerant about the Mumbaikar (The Hindu 07.10.2017)

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commuting
mobility
Sep 13 2017

Delta V

3-day workshop in Geneva on October 13, 14, 15 to produce a participatory neighbourhood plan.

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#urbz_participation
workshop
neighbourhood
participation
Jun 19 2017

More smart, less city

Reviewing Sondgo and its functioning residential and work places, thirteen years after the initial plans were drafted. (The Hindu, 19.06.17)

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smartcities
construction
urban development
Feb 13 2015

Dharavi: Reclaim Growth

Many people involved in urban issues in Mumbai (and elsewhere) have tried their hand at making the definitive proposal for Dharavi. Read more about ours in collaboration with sP+a

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#urbz_livelihood
dharavi
maps
mashup
urban development
community
homegrown
incremental
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
May 23 2014

Cairo: User-Driven Housing Construction

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.

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housing
construction
community
usergenerated
incremental
homegrown
cairo
strategy
May 09 2014

Morden Mumbai: Revisiting BDD Chawls.

Tracing the history of the BDD chawls and what its location and typology mean for future development of the city. 

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#urbz_housing
chawls
history
mumbai
community
housing
Mar 02 2014

The relentless life of urban villages in Guangzhou

What if traditional rural settlements were historic urban nuclei?

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village
china
Dec 23 2013

Complex is Beautiful

In Rio “pacification” is a code word to describe the invasion of neighborhoods by squads of policemen walking around their guns pulled out, ready to shoot. 

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rio
homegrown
incremental
Nov 05 2013

The Dharavi Paradox

Does Dharavi reveal a contemporary urban model that defies functional urbanism?

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dharavi
homegrown
incremental
livelihood
housing
Oct 18 2013

Occupancy versus Ownership

The competition for land, rather than the traditional competition for tenants, was especially exacerbated in sites of growing industrialization and development like Bombay. 

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#urbz_dharavi
housing
dharavi
mumbai
socioeconomic
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
Oct 22 2012

Unmediated Design - Tool House City

Design is on the move: it is migrating from the rigid domain of bureaucracy towards the rhizomatic realm of adhocracy’.

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#urbz_toolhouse
toolhouse
exhibition
design
contractor
unmediated
usergenerated
istanbul
Jan 10 2012

Chronicles of a Satellite City

Local newspapers doubled, tripled and eventually quadrupled with classifieds about the shiny, affordable, chic new buildings with swimming pools coming up in every empty corner.

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housing
navimumbai
Aug 08 2011

Aranya: A story of incremental development

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

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#urbz_neighborhood
affordable
incremental
housing
Feb 24 2011

Goa: A threatened Ecosystem

The people of Goa are  looking for ways to organize Goa’s growth and future in a manner that does justice to its special cultural and historical distinctiveness.

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water
village
urban development
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