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Green Workshop: Compact city - Sustainable or just sustaining economic law?
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4th Holcim Forum in Mumbai, India 2013: Green Workshop group.
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4th Holcim Forum in Mumbai, India 2013: Green Mobile workshop - Compact city: This workshop aims at analyzing what differentiations need to be made with respect to specificity of site and society when evaluating the scale and density of a city. Pictured (in cap): Workshop expert, Rahul Mehrotra.
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4th Holcim Forum in Mumbai, India 2013: Blue Mobile workshop - Compact city: Mumbai’s economic growth in the late 19th century is directly linked to the rise of its textile industry. Workers lived around each mill in provided housing such as the “chawl”: a midrise block of flats with shared or common balcony space – a distinct form of affordable housing suitable for Mumbai.
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4th Holcim Forum in Mumbai, India 2013: Blue Mobile workshop - Compact city: Bhendi Bazaar Muslim community is now overcrowded with many buildings in disrepair. The Saifee Burhani Upliftment Trust (SBUT) has proposed an entire district-scale redevelopment project that maintains the community’s religious and cultural character.
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4th Holcim Forum in Mumbai, India 2013: Fernando Diez, Argentina in the Green Workshop group.
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Workshop findings presented by Sanjay Prakash.
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This workshop reviewed the concept of the compact city and evaluated and criticized the economic, social, and ecological aspects of this typology within the scope of sustainable urbanism.
Moderator: Harry Gugger; Reporter: Sanjay Prakash
Symposium experts: Shlomo Angel, Pierre Bélanger, Gwendolyn Kerschbaumer, Rahul Mehrotra, and Philipp Rode
Experts
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