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		<title>JJ: Affordable Housing (Mumbai)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mumbai Contra-CT:  Techniques and Tactics of Local Affordable Housing Production
Curated by URBZ/Urbanology @ Sir JJ College of Architecture, Mumbai


Seminar &#38; Fieldwork: Dec 5th 2011 to Jan 22nd, 2012
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Workshop: Jan 23rd, 24th, 25th, 2012
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Conference &#38; Exhibition: March 30th, 31st, 2012
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Affordable housing is seen as both, a high social priority by the    government and [...]]]></description>
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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>
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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>Ahmedabad&#8217;s affordable futures</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matias</dc:creator>
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We spent most of last week in Ahmedabad, the dynamic capital of Gujarat, which is developing just as fast as any other major Indian city today. In spite of the wide availability of land, real estate prices are shooting up in most parts due to the speculative bubble that is currently affecting India and boosting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goa: A Threatened Urban Ecosystem</title>
		<link>http://urbz.net/qualifying-goas-urban-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rahul</dc:creator>
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Trouble in paradise: Iron Ore Mine in Bicholim, North Goa

We have been busy looking at Goa&#8217;s complex urban system and networks together with a group of graduate landscape architecture students from Sweden. This studio, taking place from Feb 14th to 25th, is part of a year-long programme organized by Henrietta Palmer and Michael Dudley of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>URBZ @ IIHS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 01:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matias</dc:creator>
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URBZ members Rahul and Matias spent a week in Bangalore at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements and discussed the future of Indian cities along with 39 participants from all over the country and 21 faculty members. In addition to giving a lecture on &#8220;Citizenship and Activism&#8221;, we also facilitated two groups of participants through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Type of Conversion?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 02:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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Real estate development in Bambolim, Goa. 
In Goa, the small Indian state and popular tourist destination where I did my research internship with URBZ, it does not take long to see that speculative real estate interests are invading. Throughout Goa the signs of growth are everywhere. Hillsides are being clear-cut for resorts and vacation homes. [...]]]></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>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>Of Magnets and Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dipti</dc:creator>
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Our new friend, James Subudhi, came to visit our Shelter a few weeks back and spent the Sunday volunteering with us.  He spent a memorable day with the children and learnt a lot about richness of Dharavi. What James mentioned the most about his visit was about the happiness of the children and the strong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dharavi Shelter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matias</dc:creator>
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The URBZ Team in Mumbai has embarked on a new project in Dharavi&#8217;s New Transit Camp nagar, where its office is located. Our landlord Paul Raphael has inherited a 200 m2 plot just down Dharavi&#8217;s MG Road. He built a simple structure to host activities for street children and elderly residents and asked us to [...]]]></description>
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