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How India's 'slum-free' redevelopment fails residents by ignoring their design insights and needs

  • Written by Kali Marnane, Honorary Associate Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Design, The University of Queensland
How India's 'slum-free' redevelopment fails residents by ignoring their design insights and needsKali Marnane (2023), Author provided

I’m in Ahmedabad, India, standing where families once built their homes under the shade of large trees. Today, those houses are a flattened dust bowl at the edge of a construction site. Apartment buildings are replacing the low-rise, high-density settlement called Ramapir No Tekro, the city’s biggest...

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