housing

How the metro line is affecting a neighbourhood in Mumbai

How renewed attention to urban-rural linkages may reshape the urbanisation debate. (The Hindu 5/11/2017)

Workshop da construção civil / Civil construction Workshop in Sao Paulo

Recent research in Dhaka show that accommodation and housing are related but distinct needs. (The Hindu, 30.07.17)

Recognizing patterns and processes are crucial to urban practice. The role of architects as agents of incremental growth needs to be emphasised over that of creators of a future that doesn’t yet exist.

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.

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

While residents may live here and work elsewhere, this neighbourhood also shows a high level of its own economic activities.

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

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

How to provide housing for all classes of people who need it, taking their varied livelihoods  into account, while balancing their relative abilities to invest in housing? 

Architecture relies on inputs of the occupants to incrementally design a house extension in Sakinaka. 

How local, community owned and managed housing co-operatives, can be a vital step towards improving the neighbourhoods, bringing good quality civic infrastructure and making the city genuinely ’slum-free’.

Where affordable housing is scarce but people have tweaked the system and the land to achieve the best possible results in the given circumstances. 

The so-called slums of the city are in many ways attempts at increasing affordable housing units through a different construction and financial system.

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.

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

Local contractor Amar Madhukar Nirjankar constructs the most affordable house for one of his clients in Bhandup's homegrown neighbourhood.

Micro homes which integrate spaces of work and are well connected to the street economy seem to be far more viable on the longer run at all levels.