Dhaka and the Future of Housing
New typologies that address universal, but much overlooked needs of urban accommodation
From Dharavi to Rome
Local contractors design their ideal Dharavi homes which are exhibited at Zaha Hadid's Maxxi in Rome.
Preserving Urban Transformation
Residents keep intervening and changing their homes in the process of living, and this contributes to conservation
Mumbai's Pavement Dwellers and Their Homes
When pavement dwellers are chased away, which happens often, they have no other option than making a new home on another the sidewalk.
To Make Housing Affordable, Keep it Local
The official target of producing millions of quality homes for all can be re-imagined, as one in which the process of construction itself becomes a transformative moment.
Cairo: User-Driven Housing Construction
Housing must be seen as a process rather than a product: its values lie in the relationship and inter-action between the actors, their activities and the produced house.
Morden Mumbai: Revisiting BDD Chawls.
Tracing the history of the BDD chawls and what its location and typology mean for future development of the city.
Occupancy versus Ownership
The competition for land, rather than the traditional competition for tenants, was especially exacerbated in sites of growing industrialization and development like Bombay.
Affordable Housing in Mumbai: 100 Years of Failed Experiments
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?
Homegrown Affordable Housing
The so-called slums of the city are in many ways attempts at increasing affordable housing units through a different construction and financial system.
