http://crit.org.in Emerging Urbanism in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:24:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This site is currently under construction. Inconvenience is regretted. Kindly bear with us for a better tomorrow! http://crit.org.in/2008/06/hello-world/ DOWNLOAD "Housing Typologies in Mumbai" (PDF) As any other urban area with a dense history, Mumbai has several kinds of house types developed over various stages of its history. However, unlike in the case of many other cities all over the world, each one of its residences is invariably occupied by ... http://crit.org.in/2007/05/housing-typologies-in-mumbai/ Workshop organised by CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust) and SARAI/Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi on 27-29 December 2006 at the All-India Institute of Local Self-Government, Mumbai In recent years, there have been numerous attempts to understand and grapple with the transformation of contemporary urban spaces and environments ... http://crit.org.in/2006/12/sarai-crit-workshop-on-emerging-urbanism-in-india/ Abstract of presentation by Anirudh Paul and Shekhar Krishnan at the Roundtable on ‘Asian Cities and Cultural Change’ at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, July 2005 The past twenty years have witnessed the decisive end of attempts at state-centred urban planning in Mumbai. The post-Independence Development ... http://crit.org.in/2005/07/geographies-of-resistance/ The residents of Betwala Chawl are a community of migrants from Allahabad — makers of exquisite cane furniture — who have squatted on a plot off Foras Road (Nimkar Marg) in Central Mumbai for more than 75 years. Betwala Chawl would qualify as a heritage slum, if criteria to ear ... http://crit.org.in/2005/07/housing-experiment-at-betwala-chawl/ Visit the Mumbai Free Map Demo on http://mumbai.freemap.in Mumbai is one of Asia’s largest cities, in which urban spaces are the central arenas of political imagination and intervention. The past decade has seen the articulation ... http://crit.org.in/2005/05/community-geographic-information-system-gis/ The objective of this study has been to formulate development strategies, policy instruments, and a public imagination for the regeneration of the Port and Dock Lands of the Island City of Mumbai. Published in 2005 as a limited edition “Study of Mumbai's Eastern Waterfront” by the Kamala Raheja Foundation and ... http://crit.org.in/2005/04/mumbai-port-trust-and-dock-lands/ Making Everyday Objects While local histories, neighbourhood relations and tactical negotiations create intimate webs of information exchange in the city, urban collective memory is also structured by publicly available representations of the city’s space. The concepts and practices of mapping connect the ... http://crit.org.in/2004/11/mumbai-bus-map-proposal/ The Industrial Museum Collaboration seeks to address the crisis of civic imagination driven by two dramatic transformations in our contemporary urban landscapes — the deindustrialisation of ... http://crit.org.in/2004/10/industrial-museum-collaboration/ The Mumbai Metropolitan Region, despite its modernity, has been the location of important settlements going back to the Buddhist period. Some o these earlier settlement patterns have integrated seamlessly with the city over a period of time — while others have ... http://crit.org.in/2004/09/suburban-caves-proposal/