“To reside means to belong to a given place.”
- Christian Norberg-Schultz
- Christian Norberg-Schultz
Rapid urban growth and growing inequality has created a global crisis in housing that increasingly separates the rich from the poor. Though not fully understood, there is a clear and parallel relationship between the size of a city and its level of socio-economic disparity: the larger the city, the less equal it tends to be. Physical and social segregation, which both reflects and perpetuates disparity, is a growing concern in megacities worldwide - including Mumbai. The long-term success of a city depends on the collective well-being of all its inhabitants. To what extent can architecture support social inclusion and break down spatial segregation within the megacity?
RELEASING DECEMBER 2017
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