Instructor: Julie Buckler Course: The Urban Imagination Students: Hugh Mayo
“Amongst the foreign dependencies of the British Crown none are of greater and more increasing importance than Bombay. The growth of the Australian colonies has been indeed far more rapid, and their sudden acquisition of...
Instructor: Rahul Mehrotra and Martha Chen. Teaching Assistant: Nupoor Monani Course: Livelihoods and Urban Form: Mumbai in a Comparative Perspective Students: Mailys Meyer, Grace Xu, Young Ae Chung, Bin Zhu
This research project is aimed at encouraging students to use case study material...
Instructor: Rahul Mehrotra and Martha Chen. Teaching Assistant: Nupoor Monani Course: Livelihoods and Urban Form: Mumbai in a Comparative Perspective Students: Mary Kate Cahill, Mazyar Kahali, Namik Mackic
The emergence and growth of Mumbai as urban agglomeration have been fundamentally shaped by...
Instructor: Rahul Mehrotra and Martha Chen. Teaching Assistant: Nupoor Monani Course: Livelihoods and Urban Form: Mumbai in a Comparative Perspective Students: Sourav Biswas, Maria Jose Vargas, Dima Rachid
This research project is aimed at encouraging students to use case study material presented in...
The BDD chawls are a government-constructed form of worker housing built in the 1920s and originally modeled on army barracks. Due to their location in what is now a very central and desirable part of the city, plans to redevelop the site and increase the amount of built area are underway. Units inside the...
Located on the periphery of the city near the Navi Mumbai bridge, the site has had several incremental infrastructural upgrades over the course of the last 30 years, some constructed by the state and some financed privately by residents. The neighborhood is very dense and hilly, surrounded by open spaces which...
The “transit camp” designation appears to be in name only, as this community has been in place for forty years. Unlike the surrounding Dharavi slum, the site is planned on a grid and basic infrastructures such as public toilets and water taps, sewer lines and trash collection were provided by the state, similar...
From the ground level the compound does not appear aesthetically different from other slum neighborhoods in Mumbai, but this government-planned “site and services” scheme actually follows a rigid grid layout. Small plots of land serviced by trunk infrastructures, such as shared water taps, public toilets and...
Residents were moved into new buildings directly from slum neighborhoods nine and a half years ago when their homes became the site of the nearby Eastern Freeway and bridge infrastructure project. Several different communities in the path of the project were relocated to this site. Unlike other “slum rehab”...
This large, dense complex of housing was built from 2000 to 2005 to replace slums on the same site. The development was initiated by the Mumbai Municipal Region Development Authority (MMRDA). Once residents were moved to a transit camp located fifteen minutes away by walking, the slum was demolished and the towers...
This chawl was originally privately constructed to house mill workers. When we arrived, a huge new skyscraper was under construction on the property. The tenants of the chawl had been moved and it was being used to house workers on the construction site. We were informed that the chawl was...
This colony was built 25-30 years ago as a transit camp and became permanent over time through the illegal practice of the developer renting units to new residents. The colony hosts people from many parts of the city: some come of their own accord to seek month-to-month rentals and others are relocated...