Dharavi Redevelopment Project

Question 1

The Right to the City (?;?)

Answer 1

Lefebvre 1968
reclaim cities for inhabitants
Right to participation in any decision which produces urban space
- citizens centralised in decision-making process
- the city as an oeuvre - a work in which all its citizens participate
Right to appropriation
- access, occupy and use urban space
- primacy of use value over exchange value

Question 2

Neoliberal Indian Cities (?;?)

Answer 2

Banerjee Guha 2009
Basic services privatised, public-private partnerships
Aim = world-class cities - attract transnational investment
Gentrification - through privatisation of basic services, reduction of affordable housing etc.

Question 3

Dharavi’s incremental development

Answer 3

= able to create solutions to problems re. housing and business in limited space

Question 4

Dharavi’s economic success

Answer 4

small industrial and commercial enterprises
est. annual turnover £350m
Exports globally

Question 5

Dharavi’s neighbourhoods

Answer 5

85 districts = Nagars
Community
Social and cultural practices from original villages

Question 6

Dharavi’s hutment style dwellings

Answer 6

= opportunities for development

create extra floor to rent or for commercial-related storage

Question 7

Dharavi Redevelopment Project (?)

Answer 7

2007
Public-private partnerships
= 5 sectors bid for by global companies
= sell excess units - huge profit
Fixed-size apartments - dense
= social and commercial networks inhibited
= commercial and residential split
= no outside space
Participation
= no opportunity to accept/reject for participants
Resettlement
= None if you settled post-2000
= Some won't have proof of residency
= None for renters

Question 8

DRP participatory alternative

Answer 8

Rajiv Indira Project
= cooperative housing society
= resident participation
= apartments with loft space for home-based commercial activities