Integrating Informality: A Case for an Informal Settlement in Mumbai

Integrating Informality: A Case for an Informal Settlement in Mumbai

Varma, R.

Van Gameren, D.E. (mentor)

Architecture

Architecture

Explore Lab

2013-06-27

As Mike Davis has so poignantly pointed out, Mumbai is often considered to be the global capital of slumming with an estimated 10 million squatters living in the city. These informal settlements now account for more than sixty percent of the total population, and have grown largely as islands in the city, cut-off from their surroundings with little access to urban resources. Even the current Slum Rehabilitation Scheme in Mumbai is not focused on rehabilitating and integrating the vast informal settlements of the city, but rather about creating land to be sold by the private developer in the open market. Through research and intensive analysis of the ground realities of a site in South Mumbai, the project attempts to use a series of design tools and strategies that not only rehabilitate the existing slum dwellers of the site, but help integrate them with their larger contexts.

informal settlements
slums
affordable housing
Mumbai

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2013-07-27

Student theses

master thesis

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