Comments on: Dharavi 2025

By: prasoon

prasoon — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:23:36 +0000

As much as I admire the government for succeeding in brining in the money for Dharavi Redevelopment, which is most often the most difficult part for a redevelopment scheme. My critque is that the government is seeing this only as a real estate venture with rehabilitation as one of the elements in the plan. They have oversimplified the complexities and missed out a lot of critical steps in moving ahead. A good plan for redevelopment of Dharavi would need a lot more brain power, studies, discussions, debates and practical solutions.

By: rahul

rahul — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:14:32 +0000

Hey Prasoon, Thanks for your comment. We went through the dharavievolution.typepad.com study. It is well thought out and comprehensive. To understand the need for diversity in built-forms in relation to specific needs is difficult to achieve when it is part of designed intentions. However, it evolves all the time in certain contexts. Maybe a study that attempts to understand what exactly these contexts are would help. Lets keep in touch. Do take a look at our latest entry on airoots that incrementalism – http://www.airoots.org/?p=551

By: Xavier

Xavier — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:27:09 +0000

Great