04 development and informal settlement

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Development

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322)

DEVELOPMENT AND INFORMAL SETTLEMENT

DISCUSSION 4

Nipesh P Narayanan


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DEVELOPMENT: WHAT IS IT?



“an event constituting a new stage in a changing situation” ~Oxford English Dictionary


“an event constituting a new stage in a changing situation”

“an action with an output leading to change”



CHANGE : WHY? FOR WHAT? FOR WHOM?

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Why?

For What?

For Whom?


CHANGE : WHY?

• Why change at all?

• Why not - Status Quo?


CHANGE : FOR WHAT?

• What is the intent for change?

• What do we want to achieve?


CHANGE : FOR WHOM?

• Who is this “we”?

• What is the idea of collective?


• Everyone is a common man while no one is a common man!

• Collective Identity

• Justification of the common good

PARADOX OF THE COMMON MAN!

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DEVELOPMENT: WHY IS IT AS IT IS?

Derogatory current state

Aspiration for betterment

Flexible idea of collective


DEVELOPMENT: EXAMPLES!

Yamuna Pushta Eviction


WHAT IS DEVELOPMENT?

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Why? For What? For Whom?

DEVELOPMENT: WHY IS IT SO?

Derogatory current state

Aspiration for betterment

Flexible idea of collective

Yamuna Pushta Eviction

Pollution of the river

Yamuna

River front development

Common good of the

CITY!


ARCHITECT: WHAT IS OUR ROLE?


• 40,000 Houses : 1,50,000 People : 40 Years (Approx.)

• 1600 HH/ Hectare : 650 HH/acre

• 6000 People/Hectare : 2400 People/acre

MPD 2021

WHY SHOULD WE BE INTERESTED IN YAMUNA PUSHTA

Category Area of DU (Sq m) Density (DU/Hectare)

EWS Upto 30 600

Category I 30-40 500

Category II 40-80 250

Category III Above 80 175


• 100 %(Approx.) Employment

• Social Cohesion

• Self management and community living

• Politically active society

“A HAPPY SOCIETY”

WHY SHOULD WE BE INTERESTED IN YAMUNA PUSHTA


ARCHITECTS BUILD!

• “Buildings, through the utilitarian and aesthetic purposes they serve, are visible symbols of political aspirations and a display of social concerns.”

~ Charles T Goodsell The Social Meaning of Civic Space

• “Buildings are the material manifestations of ways of life, the clash of cultures and efforts to shape cultures.”

“The Expected sequential organization of the built environment is very much culture bound and it changes over time as a culture changes.”

~ Jon Lang, Miki & Madhavi Desai Architecture and Independence


ARCHITECTS BUILD – REALLY?

• ”We need – more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes – to comprehend the nature of citizenship, to make a serious imaginative assessment of that special relationship between the self and the city; its unique plasticity, its privacy and freedom.”

~ Jonathan Raban, Soft City



" Between 1997 and 2002, the government and the builders built 5 Lakh houses in urban India, when in the same time, people built 85 Lakh units in so-called “slums”"



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