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		<title>Aranya: A Story of Incremental Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 03:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rahul</dc:creator>
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Last week, we followed the trail of incremental development  as hard-wired into BV Doshi’s little publicized Aranya project, which was  started in the early 1980s in the city of Indore (Madhya Pradesh, India). The Indore Development  Authority had commissioned a low-cost housing initiative for economically  weaker sections of the city. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning from Dharavi&#8230; one house at the time</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>miriam</dc:creator>
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Our  time spent in Mumbai  is already over… it went so fast! Here is some of the output.
We worked on the URBZ building, measured each floor and drew the entire structure. We have to thank Rahul, Matias, Himanshu, Venkatesh, Bhau who have helped us during these  three weeks.
We produced a simple architectural board to show [...]]]></description>
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		<title>landing in Dharavi (and trying to figure things out)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 17:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>miriam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Miriam and Fabio, architectural students at the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy. We have landed  in Mumbai, more specifically in New Transit Camp, one of the many neighbourhoods of Dharavi.
We will spend almost two months in India, the first one in Mumbai and the second one in Bangalore researching architectural materials, usages and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>izzieward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walking around the streets of Dharavi and Mumbai I have noticed how small things can make a big difference to lives and the image of a neighbourhood.  I am not thinking in terms of the slogans of charities stating that small changes can make a world of difference; of course water, electricity, drainage and other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dukaan Workshop: Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rahul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dukaan Workshop took place in Dharavi, Mumbai on June 13, 2010. The article below was published in the Mumbai Mirror on June 16, 2010


Have you ever looked carefully at the little fruit shop jutting impossibly out of the corner down your street? Or the paan wala perching precariously on a tiny piece of real [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dukaan Workshop</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 09:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>llorenc</dc:creator>
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On Sunday June 13, URBZ organizes the Dukaan Workshop. Students, Architects, Engineers, Craftsmen, Handymen, will come together to build an evolutionary, flexible and light dukaan or streetshop, which can support an economic activity and be incrementally developed.
The materials used will be those available on the spot: pallet racks, bamboo, recycled, etc….
Bring ideas, skills, material, tools, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roof it up</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sytse de Maat</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[morphology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://urbz.net/?p=1906</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The smart power of incremental development...]]></description>
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		<title>Architecture Studios</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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Proposal for Dharavi (Mumbai) by a student of the Urban Design Program at Columbia University.
URBZ organizes architectural studios, visits and seminars in partnership with higher education institutions. Since 2009 partners and clients have included Columbia University&#8217;s Urban Design Program at the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), the Department of Architecture of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transforming The Shelter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dipti</dc:creator>
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A few weeks ago, our Sunday was spent painting clay pots that we purchased from the nearby Dharavi neighbourhood of Khumbarwada, which is only a five minute walk from the Dharavi Shelter and the Transit Camp.
From some of our small donations that we have received up to this date, we managed to buy some pots, paints, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UPenn explores Mumbai&#8217;s edges</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matias</dc:creator>
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Anuradha Mathur and Rahul Srivastava with UPenn students at Sewri, on the Eastern Waterfront.

Today we joined a group of landscape architecture students from the University of Pennsylvania who are exploring some of Mumbai&#8217;s most ambiguous spaces. After co-authoring SOAK, a ground-breaking study of Mumbai&#8217;s relationship to water with her partner Dilip Dacunha, Anuradha Mathur brings [...]]]></description>
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