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Homegrown Cities: Back to the Future
Latin America and India share a common history of experimentations in slum-upgrading and incremental housing strategies. The ideas of F. C. Turner, who was informed by years of work in Lima, in particular have inspired some of the most progressive schemes and projects in Mumbai and other parts of India. This essay reviews highlights in the history of social housing in Mumbai. It then describes the theory behind URBZ’s “Homegrown Cities” project and locates it within the larger context Turner’s ideas and projects by Indian architects such as B. V. Doshi and Charles Correa.
Homegrown Cities: Back to the Future
Latin America and India share a common history of experimentations in slum-upgrading and incremental housing strategies. The ideas of F. C. Turner, who was informed by years of work in Lima, in particular have inspired some of the most progressive schemes and projects in Mumbai and other parts of India. This essay reviews highlights in the history of social housing in Mumbai. It then describes the theory behind URBZ’s “Homegrown Cities” project and locates it within the larger context Turner’s ideas and projects by Indian architects such as B. V. Doshi and Charles Correa.
Homegrown Cities: Back to the Future
Matias Echanove (author) / Rahul Srivastava (author)
2013
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