The Homegrown City: Reclaiming the Metropolis for its Users by Matias Echanove, Rahul Srivastava
A radical new perspective on cities and urbanism
Slums, informal settlements, and other unplanned habitats are seen as the antithesis of the metropolis. Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava, founders of the design practice urbz, explore how such neighbourhoods and their inhabitants have been unfairly dismissed when they should in fact be under-stood as partners in the story of cities and urban development.