In Dharavi Mumbai, many people take pride in making the most delicious street food.
This CNA video shows how skillfully this food is being made. When you watch it closely you will see many clues on how people can cope with limited space.
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The Perfect Slum by Sytse de Maat is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://theperfectslum.blogspot.nl/.
on the architecture of informal settlement
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The Perfect Slum by Sytse de Maat is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://theperfectslum.blogspot.nl/.
You went to the library and found an empty bookshelf about slums?
Informal settlement, squatter settlements, slums, favelas, barrios and bidonvilles are the home of over a billion people. Surprisingly, little of its architecture is documented. Planners and designers are more focused on changing it and finding 'solutions'. But wait a minute, do we know what we are talking about? Do we really know what slums are? Do we know how they work? Do we understand slum dwellers?
Architecture inhabited by so many people deserves a proper place in the architecture library. It is time to look at what is there and discover the logic of it all. There IS logic, it all makes perfect sense.
Architecture inhabited by so many people deserves a proper place in the architecture library. It is time to look at what is there and discover the logic of it all. There IS logic, it all makes perfect sense.
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Literature
- Sytse de Maat, On The Symbiosis of People and Building. The Perfect Slum.
- Robert Neuwirth, Shadow Cities
- Katherine Boo, Behind The Beautiful Forevers
- Peter Bialobrzski, Case Study Homes
- Kalpana Sharma, Rediscovering Dharavi: stories from Asia's largest slum
- Stewart Brand, How Slums Can Save the Planet
- Suketu Mehta, Maximum City
- Paul Oliver, Dwellings
- Hernando de Soto, The Mystery of Capital
- Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building
- Mike Davis, Planet of Slums