mumbai

Transcript of interview in the Hindustan Times.

urbz's exhibition at the Bhau Daji Lad City Museum allows those who make up the city's fabric to put themselves on the map

The two ostensibly different cities have so much in common when you look beneath the surface.

A prize winning proposal to recycle plastic waste along Mumbai's coastal village of Versova, uses fishing nets and the involvement of the local fishing community.

The future in architecture starts with a good hard look at the world as it is.

When pavement dwellers are chased away, which happens often, they have no other option than making a new home on another the sidewalk. 

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. 

In both Colombia and India, homegrown settlements are present but differ largely in their social make-up. 

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

Touring Dharavi, it becomes obvious to many visitors that people in Dharavi might be poor in relative terms, but they are not very ashamed.

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? 

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

People with various expertise engaged themselves for a pragmatic yet humane urbanism.

The Konkan connection to Mumbai is only part of a larger universe in which the city’s force of gravity pulls together many other such regions.

Chiplun’s residents today speak of their connections with Mumbai against this history – which reveals a relationship that is really deep. Chiplun became a gateway for us not just into the Konkan region and its tryst with the railways – but a paradoxical gateway into Mumbai’s heart – back again.

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

Olivier Pascal-Moussellard wrote one of the most compelling descriptions of Dharavi to date which was published in Le Monde.