Abstract:
The city has become fragmented with newly built developments which seem like
numerous bubbles in the urban fabric, making the built environment more and
more exclusive. This has given rise to inequalities and spatial division between
different classes leading to the marginalization of people. Informal settlements
are one of the most pressing issues confronting urbanization. They cannot be
addressed only by severe methods such as demolition and eviction or upgrading
through insensitive solutions. Current approaches towards slum redevelopment
can be characterized as ‘urban acupuncture. In light of the growing number of
people living in informal settlements across the world, it is imperative that their
permanent status be acknowledged. The biggest shortcoming of the informal
settlements is a lack of non-commercial communal space due to the absence or
minimization of public intervention.
The research's purpose is to demonstrate the place-making process via the
everyday activities of migrants and local ethnic communities in their urban
settlements, as well as to investigate the link between this process and the
construction of identity in modern urban society. The aim is to investigate By
learning about the emergence of these settlements, we may better understand
their socio-spatial appropriation, typology and space production trajectories,
searching for the advantages and problems of those communities,
comprehending them in their context, interdependence, shared infrastructure
resources, and being linked to a networked surrounding urban fabric ,that can be
the base for an urban upgrading through urban design inserts. The proposition is
to connect social and economic values in order to create a strategic spatial
framework that can be included into future redevelopment plans. Which would
eventually help understand the potential for researching vulnerability to link
locals, migrants, and locations, which can lead to more supportive, less
disciplinarian types of cooperation in the modern city, through a comprehensive
analytical framework in Dharavi based on two settlement colonies: Koliwada
(Urban Village), and Seshwadi (Slum). Each has a unique form, historical
evolution, and guidelines The design strategy reframes and repurposes the conventional concept of
reconstruction in India's informal settlements, potentially expanding to the global
south. Most informal settlements in the geographical region of the global south
have specific socioeconomic patterns that play an important role in their survival.
The suggested paradigm of Place making and Tactical Urbanism aims to provide
a well-balanced mix of spatial rules and policy recommendations.