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Think about Mumbai Dharavi ’’Slums’’

United Kingdom Architecture News - May 19, 2015 - 19:54   7114 views

Think about Mumbai Dharavi ’’Slums’’

Mumbai URBZ + Ensamble Studio/MIT-POPlab

If the critics are any indication, MoMA’s architecture exhibition, “Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities,” won’t be missed when it closes next week on May 25. 

New York’s Justin Davidson panned the show in November before it even opened , followed by Tactical Urbanism co-author Mike Lydon’s two-part  critiquedisputing its entire premise, including the title. The final insult arrived in March when Harvard’s Neil Brenner demolished the show’s assumptions on MoMA’s own website. But if you need a reason to see “Uneven Growth” before it’s gone, perhaps the best is becoming better acquainted with the work of Brenner’s favorite team, the Mumbai-based “urbanologists” of URBZ......Continue Reading

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