Started after a dynamic collaboration in Mumbai where team Colombia helped construct an office in Mumbai, Bogota announces itself and makes plans for the future.

An architectural and design practice that works with local builders and residents to create projects embedded in neighbourhoods’ cultural and economic fabric.

In the chaotic, overcrowded and over dynamic environment of Dharavi, space is the main resource. Every inch of space has its use and is exploited to its fullest.

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

This is the second weekly report on how Dharavi is dealing with the pandemic and the government's response to it.

The first of two posts looking at how Goa represents a distinctive pattern of urbanization, representing a coevolution of its countryside and urban centers.

This week, urbz is at the 13th World Urban Forum, joining over 40,000 urban thinkers, policymakers and practitioners from 182 countries gathered in Baku, Azerbaijan, around a pressing question: how do we house the world?

The start of a collaborative initiative that seeks to interweave technical and scientific aspects of architects with knowledge of the local mason and the lifestyle of inhabitants. 

Lowcost housing by Architect B V Doshi, whose planned vision grew very incrementally.