The document discusses the concept of development and the role of architects. It defines development as "an event constituting a new stage in a changing situation" or "an action with an output leading to change." When considering development, it is important to examine why change is occurring, what the goals of change are, and who change is intended to benefit. The document also discusses the Yamuna Pushta eviction case in Delhi as an example of development priorities. It argues that architects should focus less on grand designs and more on understanding citizenship and community needs. Architects should learn from how informal settlements organically develop housing for millions.

1. Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Development
Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322)
DEVELOPMENT AND INFORMAL SETTLEMENT
DISCUSSION 4
Nipesh P Narayanan

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READING: ANCIENT FUTURES – Learning from Ladakh ~ Helena Norberg
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3. Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Development
DEVELOPMENT: WHAT IS IT?

4. Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Development
DEVELOPMENT: WHAT IS IT?
“an event constituting a new stage in a changing situation”
~Oxford English Dictionary

5. Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Development
“an event constituting a new stage in a changing situation”
“an action with an output leading to change”
DEVELOPMENT: WHAT IS IT?

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CHANGE : WHY? FOR WHAT? FOR WHOM?
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CHANGE !
Why?
For What?
For Whom?

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CHANGE : WHY?
• Why change at all?
• Why not - Status Quo?

9. Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Development
CHANGE : FOR WHAT?
• What is the intent for change?
• What do we want to achieve?

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CHANGE : FOR WHOM?
• Who is this “we”?
• What is the idea of collective?

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• Everyone is a common man while no one is a common man!
• Collective Identity
• Justification of the common good
PARADOX OF THE COMMON MAN!
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Why? For What? For Whom?
DEVELOPMENT: WHY IS IT AS IT IS?
Derogatory
current state
Aspiration for
betterment
Flexible idea of
collective

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DEVELOPMENT: EXAMPLES!
Yamuna Pushta Eviction

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DEVELOPMENT: EXAMPLES!
Yamuna Pushta Eviction

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DEVELOPMENT: EXAMPLES!
Yamuna Pushta Eviction

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WHAT IS DEVELOPMENT?
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Why? For What? For Whom?
DEVELOPMENT: WHY IS IT SO?
Derogatory
current state
Aspiration for
betterment
Flexible idea of
collective
Yamuna Pushta Eviction
Pollution
of the
river
Yamuna
River front
development
Common
good of the
CITY!

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ARCHITECT: WHAT IS OUR ROLE?

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• 40,000 Houses : 1,50,000 People : 40 Years (Approx.)
• 1600 HH/ Hectare : 650 HH/acre
• 6000 People/Hectare : 2400 People/acre
MPD 2021
WHY SHOULD WE BE INTERESTED IN YAMUNA PUSHTA
Category Area of DU (Sq m) Density
(DU/Hectare)
EWS Upto 30 600
Category I 30-40 500
Category II 40-80 250
Category III Above 80 175

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• 100 %(Approx.) Employment
• Social Cohesion
• Self management and community living
• Politically active society
“A HAPPY SOCIETY”
WHY SHOULD WE BE INTERESTED IN YAMUNA PUSHTA

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ARCHITECTS BUILD!
• “Buildings, through the utilitarian and aesthetic purposes they serve, are
visible symbols of political aspirations and a display of social concerns.”
~ Charles T Goodsell The Social Meaning of Civic Space
• “Buildings are the material manifestations of ways of life, the clash of
cultures and efforts to shape cultures.”
“The Expected sequential organization of the built environment is very
much culture bound and it changes over time as a culture changes.”
~ Jon Lang, Miki & Madhavi Desai Architecture and Independence

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ARCHITECTS BUILD – REALLY?
• ”We need – more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic
disposal systems, or ecological programmes – to comprehend the nature
of citizenship, to make a serious imaginative assessment of that special
relationship between the self and the city; its unique plasticity, its privacy
and freedom.”
~ Jonathan Raban, Soft City

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ARCHITECTS BUILD – REALLY?
" Between 1997 and 2002, the government and the builders
built 5 Lakh houses in urban India, when in the same time,
people built 85 Lakh units in so-called “slums”"

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ARCHITECTS BUILD – REALLY?
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Plan of Kalyanpuri

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ARCHITECTS BUILD – REALLY?
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Plan of Soami Nagar

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ARCHITECTS BUILD – REALLY?
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Plan of Soami Nagar

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ARCHITECTS BUILD – REALLY?
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Plan of Soami Nagar

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ARCHITECTS BUILD – REALLY?
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Plan of Soami Nagar

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ARCHITECTS BUILD – REALLY?
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Plan of Soami Nagar

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ARCHITECTS BUILD – REALLY?
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Plan of Soami Nagar

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ARCHITECTS BUILD – REALLY?
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Plan of Soami Nagar

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ARCHITECTS BUILD – REALLY?
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Plan of Soami Nagar

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ARCHITECTS BUILD – REALLY?
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Plan of Soami Nagar

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ARCHITECTS BUILD – REALLY?
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Plan of Soami Nagar

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ARCHITECTS BUILD – REALLY?
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Plan of Soami Nagar

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ARCHITECTS BUILD – REALLY?
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Plan of Soami Nagar

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ARCHITECTS BUILD – REALLY?
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Plan of Soami Nagar

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ARCHITECTS BUILD – REALLY?
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Plan of Soami Nagar

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ARCHITECTS BUILD – REALLY?
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Plan of Soami Nagar

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ARCHITECTS BUILD – REALLY?
Sunder Nagri Redevelopment Example

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ARCHITECTS BUILD – REALLY?
Sunder Nagri Redevelopment Example

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ARCHITECTS BUILD – REALLY?
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ARCHITECT: WHAT IS OUR ROLE?
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