Print Email Facebook Twitter A higher sense of place Title A higher sense of place: A people focussed alternative for affordable dense redevelopment Author Veillat, Guillaume (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment) Contributor Mota, Nelson (mentor) van Gameren, Dirk (mentor) van der Meel, Hubert (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Global Housing Date 2019-11-01 Abstract Decent, affordable housing is fundamental to the health and well-being of people and to the smooth functioning of economies. Yet especially Mumbai is struggling to meet those needs. Approximately half the population (over 6 million people) live in slums or slum-like dwellings, deplorable conditions where people suffer from one or more of the following basic deficiencies in their housing: lack of access to improved water; lack of access to improved sewage facilities (not even an outhouse); living in overcrowded conditions; living in buildings that are structurally unsound; or living in a situation with no security of tenure (that is, without legal rights to be where they are, as renters or as owners). Our project site Nala-Sopara is a fast growing suburb 80km north from the southern tip of Mumbai, centered around the railway line. The dwellings consist mostly of the so-called baithi chawls, which are typical for Mumbai. The chawls are more permanent than other slums, often using materials like concrete and brick, and residents usually have land ownership. Still they are considered to be slums or informal settlements, because the houses and even apartment buildings are illegally built. The permanent nature doesn’t solve much though, as conditions in these chawls are similar and sometimes worse than in the slums. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:3f4beb0c-1760-4b3f-9b6c-c25c66fab7c5 Coordinates 19.431328, 72.824086 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2019 Guillaume Veillat Files PDF P5_booklet_2.pdf 52.2 MB PDF P5.pdf 50.72 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:3f4beb0c-1760-4b3f-9b6c-c25c66fab7c5/datastream/OBJ1/view