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.
Show Notes
Intro/Outro: “Coming Up,” by Cornershop
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Discussed:
- Homegrown Cities: Reclaiming the Metropolis for Its Users
- Dharavi, Mumbai (including Koliwada)
- Emergent Tokyo
- Shanghai Shikumen
- Urbz: The Slum Outside
- Stewart Brand: “How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built”
- James C. Scott
- Hernando de Soto and land title
- “Ad-hocracy”
- Open House: Levittown intervention by DS+R, Droog & EFGH, 2011
- MoMA Foreclosed project: Cicero, 2011
Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities | MoMA, 2014-2015
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