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In collaboration with local pedreiro Ataide, the urbz team helps build a house in Paraisoplis right from digging the foundations. 

While documenting the work of a local Mumbai contractor, Marie Malchow questions if a different conception of space operates during the construction process. 

How local, community owned and managed housing co-operatives, can be a vital step towards improving the neighbourhoods, bringing good quality civic infrastructure and making the city genuinely ’slum-free’.

Pedreiero Ataide opens up his house in São Paulo's homegrown neighbourhood, Paraisopolis, to architecture students to learn the intricacies of on-site construction and renovation. 

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

The so-called slums of the city are in many ways attempts at increasing affordable housing units through a different construction and financial system.