urban development

What looks like a city of aesthetic or economic contrasts may actually be a marker of the relation between urban space and individual agency.

An Insight into Dharavi and the Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP)

Since many years, the inhabitants of the San German neighborhood (located in Usme, in the metropolitan area of Bogota) have been developing many different projects on public space improvement and infrastructure, that permitted the amelioration of life conditions. The main goal is to promote projects of community improvement on social and cultural levels of the San German community. 

A Swiss city re-imagines public space and experiments with direct democracy in the process (The Hindu 16.03.2019)

Why Fort Kochi is a lesson that urban planners can integrate into a larger vision for India (The Hindu 02.03.2019)

Continuing our study of the Mumbai Metro and its impact on homegrown settlements

How we locked ourselves in a box (The Hindu 02.02.19)

Le 11 juin 2018, urbz présente ses travaux sur la forme du futur quartier Lachenal-Dégallier (dit Delta V) aux habitants de Versoix. Un résumé en texte et image.

Reviewing Sondgo and its functioning residential and work places, thirteen years after the initial plans were drafted. (The Hindu, 19.06.17)

Privatisation, if seen as an exclusive way to regularise settlements, increases the risk of political manipulation and real-estate speculation. (The Hindu, 29.03.17)

Announcing the Breaking Ground Workshop in Geneva involved some interesting comparisons with density levels in Mumbai. Learnings from one space were strong inputs in discussions at another

Many people involved in urban issues in Mumbai (and elsewhere) have tried their hand at making the definitive proposal for Dharavi. Read more about ours in collaboration with sP+a

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. 

Planning the planned city of Navi Mumbai. 

urbz' publication on Dharavi published by Strelka Press

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? 

The city is never already there; it is a perpetual work in progress. What seems disorderly to the untrained eye is in fact often perfectly sensible.

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

This workshop uses creativity to make sense of emergent and misunderstood urban formations in India.