1. Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon
Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322)
DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
CONCLUDING DISCUSSION
“and everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon;
there is no dark side of the moon really; matter of fact it's all dark."
Nipesh P Narayanan
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INFORMALITY: GLAMORIZED LIVING CONDITION OF THE POOR!
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INFORMALITY: GLAMORIZED LIVING CONDITION OF THE POOR!
1972
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CAN WE? : THE PICTURE PERFECT CITY OF THE WEST!
5. Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon
CAN WE? : THE PICTURE PERFECT CITY OF THE WEST!
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CAN WE? : THE PICTURE PERFECT CITY OF THE WEST!
Aping the West/USA
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CAN WE? : THE ‘VROOM’ CITY !
8. Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon
CAN WE? : THE ‘VROOM’ CITY ?
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CAN WE? : THE ‘BRAVE NEW’ CITY !
10. Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon
CAN WE? : THE ‘BRAVE NEW’ CITY !
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CAN WE? : THE ‘WORLD CLASS’ CITY !
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CAN WE?
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CAN WE?
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CAN WE?
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CAN WE?
16. Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon
CAN WE? : WHAT WILL ‘IT’ BE SUPPORTED ON?
IT = The mad Indian rush!
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WHERE DO WE STAND?
PER CAPITA INCOME OF INDIA
Year India USA
2010(volatile now) $ 800 $ 32140
Growth rate – 6.8 % (2009-2010)
Assuming the growth rate – 7 % (assumed to be constant)
At 7% growth rate, per capita income will double every 10 years
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WHERE DO WE STAND?
PER CAPITA INCOME OF INDIA
Year India USA
2010(volatile now) $ 800 $ 32140
2020 $ 1600
2030 $ 3200
2040 $ 6400
2050 $ 12800
2060 $ 25600
2070 $ 51200
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WHERE DO WE STAND?
PER CAPITA INCOME OF INDIA
Year India USA
2010(volatile now) $ 800 $ 32140
2020 $ 1600
2030 $ 3200
2040 $ 6400
2050 $ 12800
2060 $ 25600
2070 $ 51200
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WHERE DO WE STAND?
PER CAPITA INCOME OF INDIA
Year India USA
2010(volatile now) $ 800 $ 32140
2020 $ 1600
2030 $ 3200
2040 $ 6400
2050 $ 12800
2060 $ 25600
2070 $ 51200
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WHERE DO WE STAND?
PER CAPITA INCOME OF INDIA
Year India USA
2010(volatile now) $ 800 $ 32140
2020 $ 1600
2030 $ 3200
2040 $ 6400
2050 $ 12800
2060 $ 25600
2070 $ 51200
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WHERE DO WE STAND?
PER CAPITA INCOME OF INDIA
Year India USA
2010(volatile now) $ 800 $ 32140
2020 $ 1600
2030 $ 3200
2040 $ 6400
2050 $ 12800
2060 $ 25600
2070 $ 51200
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WHERE DO WE STAND?
PER CAPITA INCOME OF INDIA
Year India USA
2010(volatile now) $ 800 $ 32140
2020 $ 1600
2030 $ 3200
2040 $ 6400
2050 $ 12800
2060 $ 25600
2070 $ 51200
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WHERE DO WE STAND?
PER CAPITA INCOME OF INDIA
Year India USA
2010(volatile now) $ 800 $ 32140
2020 $ 1600
2030 $ 3200
2040 $ 6400
2050 $ 12800
2060 $ 25600
2070 $ 51200
By the time we make it, people in this room will be
too OLD or DEAD!
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THERE IS NO DARK SIDE OF THE MOON REALLY;
MATTER OF FACT IT'S ALL DARK
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THERE IS NO DARK SIDE OF THE MOON REALLY;
MATTER OF FACT IT'S ALL DARK
IS IT?
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IS MONEY THE CRITERIA?
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IS MONEY THE CRITERIA?
STATE PER CAPITA INCOME HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX
Haryana Rs. 19,021 0.621
Gujarat Rs. 20,000 0.644
Kerala Rs. 12,302 0.814 (USA - .92, UK - .849, Germany - .885)
HDI not GDP!
~ Mahbub-ul-Haq
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THE OTHER PATH IS INEFFECTIVE!
1989
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INDIAN INFORMAL IS DIFFERENT!
TURNER’s ‘FREEDOM TO BUILD’ (1972)
1. Co-Housing (late 1960s in Denmark)
– Women going to work!
2. Labour housing collective living (post liberal India)
– No choice
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INDIAN INFORMAL IS DIFFERENT!
TURNER’s ‘FREEDOM TO BUILD’ (1972)
1. Co-Housing (late 1960s in Denmark)
– Women going to work!
2. Labour housing collective living (post liberal India)
– No choice
1. Community Technical Aid Centres (mid 1960s in UK)
– Answer to slum clearance and mass housing programs
2. Technical Assistance Kiosk (mHS, post retail FDI India)
– Answer to degrading built environment
3. The Jugaad Mumbai slum contactor
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INDIAN INFORMAL IS DIFFERENT!
TURNER’s ‘FREEDOM TO BUILD’ (1972)
1. Co-Housing (late 1960s in Denmark)
– Women going to work!
2. Labour housing collective living (post liberal India)
– No choise
1. Community Technical Aid Centres (mid 1960s in UK)
– Answer to slum clearance and mass housing programs
2. Technical Assistance Kiosk (mHS, post retail FDI India)
– Answer to degrading built environment
3. The Jugaad Mumbai slum contactor
NO
Freedom
tolive
Missing
Ideaofthe
collective
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INDIAN INFORMAL IS DIFFERENT!
TURNER’s ‘FREEDOM TO BUILD’ (1972)
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INDIAN INFORMAL IS DIFFERENT!
TURNER’s ‘FREEDOM TO BUILD’ (1972)
DE SOTO’s ‘THE OTHER PATH’ (1989)
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INDIAN INFORMAL IS DIFFERENT!
TURNER’s ‘FREEDOM TO BUILD’ (1972)
DE SOTO’s ‘THE OTHER PATH’ (1989)
Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY)
– Community participation
– Mortgage rights
– Formalizing the informal
36. Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon
INDIAN INFORMAL IS DIFFERENT!
TURNER’s ‘FREEDOM TO BUILD’ (1972)
DE SOTO’s ‘THE OTHER PATH’ (1989)
Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY)
– Community participation
– Mortgage rights
– Formalizing the informal
Programmed
tofeedthe
GDPmodel
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INDIAN INFORMAL IS DIFFERENT!
TURNER’s ‘FREEDOM TO BUILD’ (1972)
DE SOLTO’s ‘THE OTHER PATH’ (1989)
WHAT DO WE DO?
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ARCHITECT: WHAT IS OUR ROLE?
ImageSource:http://duranvirginia.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/virginiaduran_myarchitect.jpg[Online]
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ARCHITECTS REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL ??
1974 by Brian Anson & AA Students
Call for an
“International movement towards
community Architecture”
1934 - 2009
ImageSource:http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/dec/17/brian-anson-obituary[Online]
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ARCHITECTS REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL ??
“Brian Anson realised that the problems
plaguing the profession, i.e. the pandering
to developers and lack of ground roots
community communication were a result of
a deeply flawed education system.”
Brian Anson obituary
Architect, planner and tireless battler on
behalf of the underdog
~Richard Rogers
The Guardian,
17 December 2009
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TIME TO RETHINK ABOUT THE PROFESSION!
beyond the philanthropic views…
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“it is a definite social relationship between men that assumes…. the
fantastic form of a relation between things…. This I call the fetishism
which attaches itself to the products of labour so soon as they are
produced as commodities”
~Karl Marx, Das Capital, vol 1