Paan fried fish: Industry meets Environment
We recently travelled from Mumbai to Chiplun and then onward to reach Sawarde, a small village in the Konkan region. While we enjoyed the abundant landscape we also discovered some sobering realities.
Alternative farmers' Market in Mumbai
We discuss whether the alternatives to the centralised food supply system in Mumbai lead to an ecologically and economically fair development.
Street Food Vendors - User-generated Public Spaces
urbz team studied street food and public spaces in Mumbai
Broken Nature and Circulatory Lives
Circulatory urbanism featured in the Milan Triennale's (2019) exploration of the threads that connect humans to their natural environments.
Circulatory Urbanism
For the past 5 years, urbz has been following families who's lives are spread between Mumbai and their ancestral villages in the Konkan (Western India).
New practices for rural development in South Korea
An account of urbz Seoul's strategic planning for the island of Ulleung, in the East Sea
New States, New Possibilities
Emerging political boundaries can help us rethink other categories. (The Hindu 3/12/2017)
The road to the city
How renewed attention to urban-rural linkages may reshape the urbanisation debate. (The Hindu 5/11/2017)
Why Mumbai extends far beyond its metropolitan limits
Transcript of interview in the Hindustan Times.
Circulatory Urbanism: The misunderstood paradigm
The biggest growth in urbanisation is not taking place in the metropolis but in small towns that are networked with villages.
Circulating Urbanism
The Konkan connection to Mumbai is only part of a larger universe in which the city’s force of gravity pulls together many other such regions.