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Camillo Boano

William Hunter

Caroline Newton

Writings and

projects for the

resilient city

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The Development Planning Unit conducts world-leading research and postgraduate

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The assembly and design of this book was led by Caroline Newton and Luz Navarroat the DPU. Photographic images are attributed to William Hunter and Ruth Mcleod

while all work is attributed to students of the MSc BUDD. Overall editing was done by

William Hunter at the DPU. Printing and binding was handled by Peeters & Peeters in

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Individual Design Response

Collated Strategies

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Urban Design Recalibrated:

BUDD Studio works

Sixty Years of Contesting Development Julio D. Dvila

Learning through Partnerships Caren Levy

Engaging with Processes of Change Peter Kellett

So it began in Dharavi Camillo Boano

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Contested Urbanisms Camillo Boano, Melissa Garca Lamarca, William Hunter

Why Dharavi? William Hunter, Camillo Boano

Recalibrating Critical Design Practice William Hunter, Camillo Boano

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Mapping the Territory

Profiling Livelihoods, Needs And Aspirations

Design Guidelines and Principles

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Classicising Dharavi Giorgio Talocci

Slum for Sale Andrew Wade

Modernism out of Context Ben Leclair-Paquet

Paradox of Integration Amar Sood

Remote Analysis and the Challenge to Practice Ricardo Martn

Meeting the Challenge of Scale Nick Wolff

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Into the Urban Beyond Caroline Newton 139

Reflections on the Dharavi

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The Development Planning Unit, University College London(UCL), is an international centre specialising in academicteaching, research, training and consultancy in the field ofurban and regional development, with a focus on policy,planning, management and design. It is concerned with

understanding the multi-faceted and uneven processof contemporary urbanisation, and strengthening moresocially just and innovative approaches to policy, planning,management and design, especially in the contexts ofAfrica, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East as well ascountries in transition.

The central purpose of the DPU is to strengthen the

professional and institutional capacity of governments andnon-governmental organisations (NGOs) to deal with thewide range of development issues that are emerging atlocal, national and global levels. In London, the DPU runspostgraduate programmes of study, including a researchdegree (MPhil/PhD) programme, six one-year MastersDegree courses and specialist short courses in a rangeof fields addressing urban and rural development policy,

planning, management and design.

Overseas, the DPU Training and Advisory Service (TAS)provides training and advisory services to governmentdepartments, aid agencies, NGOs and academicinstitutions. These activities range from short missionsto substantial programmes of staff development andinstitutional capacity building.

The academic staff of the DPU are a multi-disciplinaryand multinational group with extensive and on-goingresearch and professional experience in various fieldsof urban and international development throughout theworld. DPU Associates are a body of professionals who workclosely with the Unit both in London and overseas. Every

year the student body embraces more than 45 differentnationalities.

To find out more about us and the courses we run, pleasevisit our website: www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/dpu

Located in The Bartletts Development Planning Unit(DPU), a world-leading international centre of researchand study founded by Otto Koenigsberger specializingin planning in the Global South, the MSc Buildingan Urban Design in Development (BUDD) offers a

unique synthesis of cutting edge critical methodologyand design-based research, linking the practice ofdesign with the complementary developmentalprocesses of planning. It equips students with thetools to deal with complex urban challenges, spatialtransformations and the manifestation of injustices,especially in the contested urbanisms of Asia, Africaand Latin America. This intense 12-month graduate

course invites participants to play a leading role inthe development and understanding of a recalibratedUrban Design approach, at once people-centred andstrategic in nature.

The MSc is constructed around four themescorresponding to the core course modules:

Urban Design theories for understanding informalurbanism Participatory design methodologies and citizenship Design research, thinking, and practice Innovative methodological approaches to design

Key points of the course:

An innovative 12-month programme includingseminar classes, workshops and an intensive livefieldwork in the global south Supports a balance between research, writing andpractice-based design A competitive interdisciplinary and multiculturalenvironment.

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This publication draws from first-hand experience, research, and critical

practices that have sought to investigate a 175 hectares swatch of land in themiddle of Mumbai that is home to over 1 million inhabitants. It is a collection ofshort and long essays, drawings and diagrams, pictures and photo-montages,video stills and visualisations on what is known as Dharavi.

If on one side Dharavi was what some would call a live case study, onthe other it was more than that. Dharavi was a place where our differentepistemic words of what we called urban design started falling apart.

It was also a complex microcosm of practices where our methodologicaland architectural artillery became somewhat ineffective and sterile. Itwas a symbol of a multiplicity of urbanisms at play that failed all ourphilosophical apparatus. Dharavi for us was essentially a space in whichwe started our process of recalibration of Urban Design - an intellectual,pedagogical and political process at the centre of the MSc Building and UrbanDesign in Development course at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit.

Dr. Camillo Boano is an architect, urbanist and

educator. He currently Senior Lecturer at DevelopmentPlanning Unit, UCL, where he directs the MSc in Buildingand Urban Design in Development. He is also the Directorof Communication in the Unit and Coordinator of theDPUsummerLab initiative. Since 2012 he became one of theCo-Directors of the UCL Urban Lab.

William Hunter is a Teaching Fellow at the BartlettDevelopment Planning Unit where he leads studios inDesign in Development and Critical Urbanism. He is also Co-

Coordinator of the DPU summerLab series and DPU News editor.

Dr. Caroline Newton is an architect, urban plannerand political scientist. She completed her PhD in socialgeography at the K.U. Leuven (Belgium). Caroline teaches inthe MSc Building and Urban Design in Development and is amember of the editorial board of the Journal of Housing andthe Built Environment

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