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“That Dharavi (Mumbai) is a slum, however, is a notion that Matias Sendoa Echanove and Rahul Srivastava, the founders of urbz, resist. Terminology, they point out, like cartography, carries baggage, and defining the district as a slum designates it as a terminally diseased district where demolition and redevelopment is inescapable – a condition that amounts to something of a wet dream for the administration and the city’s developers, who are only too aware of the multibillion- euro value of the land it stands on.”

Rahul Srivastava and Matias Sendoa Echanove believe that the best way to improve the future of cities is to empower their inhabitants through design. Read the full article here.

(via urbanistin)

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