115. Homegrown Cities

Two long-overdue guests on Unfrozen, Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava, founders of the design firm urbz, have written "The Homegrown City: Reclaiming the Metropolis for its Users," examining how, despite the determination of planning orthodoxies to extinguish them, slums, informal settlements, and other unplanned habitats are actually enormous sources of enterprise and vitality. They explore how such neighborhoods and their inhabitants have been unfairly dismissed when they should in fact be understood as partners in the story of cities and urban development.