Future Cities Noah Addis
“Future Cities is a series of photographs of informal settlements and unplanned developments in the world’s cities. These communities take on many forms, but they share a common history. People, mostly migrants from rural areas, came to the city in search of work. They were in need of affordable housing that could not be found on the open market. So they claimed a small piece of unused land and built a home. Other residents followed, and the result was a new community within the city.”
slum mitigation
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Aranya (1989, Indore) is a low-cost social housing project designed by Vaastu Shilpa Foundation, Sangath, the atelier of B.V. Doshi. “It is an innovative sites-and-services project, particularly noteworthy for its effort to integrate families within a range of poor-to-modest income” (Aga Khan Jury). The design engages plurality at the level of a) lot size b) street typology c) housing typology and d) flexibility for adaptation and growth.
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What would NYC’s low-income red-brick housing would look like with a neon paint job? Here’s a rendering by Dutch artists Haas&Hahn, who create large-scale murals in Brazil’s favelas. More over here.
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