socioeconomic

Local contractors design their ideal Dharavi homes which are exhibited at Zaha Hadid's Maxxi in Rome. 

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

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

From a small Italian village, to a city like Milan, to a metroplis like Chile and finally to Dharavi, Francesco finds similarities and differences among the different scales.of habitats. 

Similarities between urban villages in Mumbai and Italy. 

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.