The Slum Outside
Elusive Dharavi
Dharavi has achieved mythical status. Commonly, and mistakenly, cited as Asia's largest slum, it is a symbol of Mumbai's inability to meet the needs of its population, and the ability of Mumbaikars to meet those needs on their own. Commentaries usually fall back on the slum narrative, which sees Dharavi as resilient but backward, and in need of radical intervention. Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava of Urbz argue that it is time for this narrative to be rewritten. Dharavi residents do not recognise their home as a slum - the slum is always somewhere else, a few blocks away perhaps. Echanove and Srivastava challenge the bipolar way in which…
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Weitere Autoren: Srivastava, Rahul / URBZ, Rahul
- ISBN: 978-5-906264-27-5
- EAN: 9785906264275
- Produktnummer: 16553214
- Verlag: Strelka Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 52 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'731 KB
Über den Autor
Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava joined forces through their blog airoots/eirut in 2006. They have since written extensively on urban themes and are working on projects involving architecture, planning, pedagogy and technology. They run the Institute of Urbanology in Mumbai and Goa and are co-founders of urbz.net, an experimental platform for collaborative practice in urban development.
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