Organized by In association with in co-operation with “The projects associated with the Urban Age Award are about getting under the skin of what is happening in the city (...) relatively small changes in space can have a major impact on the quality of life of urban residents, especially for those at the bottom end of the social scale.”

RICKY BURDETT Editorial

The seventh edition of the Deutsche Bank Urban Age space and residents' lives on a local scale, making use Award, created to encourage initiatives that improve of available resources with a hands-on approach. The the quality of life in urban environments, received 135 135 applications include a range of projects covering applications from the wider area. Launched in social and physical infrastructure. Overarching in 2007, the Award was followed by São Paulo categories that emerged from reviewing the (2008), (2009), Mexico City (2010), Cape applications were: sanitation, public space, education, Town (2012) and (2013). employment, recycling and waste management. This award has been initiated to recognize The process of organization of the award on and celebrate creative solutions to the problems the ground will be described and the list of the and opportunities that face over half of the winners and the shortlist projects will be included as world’s population living in cities today. For this introduced by this year’s jury members. reason, the award focuses on projects that benefit communities and local residents by improving their We all carry a great deal of responsibility for the urban environments. It is designed to encourage success of our cities, for securing an urban future. citizens, policy-makers, private businesses and non- With the Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award, we governmental organizations to take a proactive role aim to encourage people to work together to take in forging shared responsibilities in cities in the 21st responsibility for their cities. century – mankind’s first truly ‘urban’ age. We want to make the invisible visible, we want to After an open application process, an independent show the potential there is in the slums, townships, international jury awards the prize, which is worth barrios, gecekondus, or favelas of this world, we want 100,000 USD, to the winning project. The award is to help constitute a lobby for those whose voices are organized by the Deutsche Bank’s Alfred Herrhausen often not heard. Society in association with the LSE Cities at the School of Economics and Political Science. In Delhi, the award process had been conducted in cooperation with the National Institute of Urban Affairs. Ute Elisabeth Weiland has been the Deputy Director of the Alfred Herrhausen Society, Deutsche Bank’s This publication provides the reader with an international forum since 2007, a member of overview on the previous award cities, focusing on the Executive Board of the Urban Age conference Delhi. It illustrates the distribution of initiatives series at the London School of Economics since 2004, on the city map, suggesting a rich reservoir of and since 1 January 2010, a member of the Governing community initiatives that currently improve urban Board of LSE Cities. ALFRED NATIONAL Contents HERRHAUSEN INSTITUTE OF SOCIETY LSE CITIES URBAN AFFAIRS

The non-profit Alfred Herrhausen LSE Cities is an international center National Institute of Urban Affairs Interview 8 Society is the international forum at the London School of Economics (NIUA) is a premier institute for Thomas Matussek of Deutsche Bank. Its work focuses and Political Science supported research, capacity building and on new forms of governance as a by Deutsche Bank that carries out dissemination of knowledge for the Interview 10 response to the challenges of the research, education and outreach urban sector in India. It conducts Rahul Mehrotra 21st century. activities in London and abroad. research on urbanization, urban The Alfred Herrhausen Society Its mission is to study how policy and planning, municipal Award city profiles 15 seeks traces of the future in the people and cities interact in a finance and governance, land Mumbai, 2007 present, and conceptualizes rapidly urbanizing world, focusing economics, transit oriented São Paulo, 2008 relevant themes for analysis and on how the design of cities impacts development, urban livelihoods, Istanbul, 2009 debate. It works with international on society, culture and the environment & climate change and Mexico City, 2010 partners across a range of fields, environment. Through research, smart cities. Cape Town, 2012 including policy, academia and conferences, teaching and projects, The institute was set up to bridge Rio de Janairo, 2013 business, to organize forums for the center aims to shape new the gap between research and practice, discussion worldwide. It forges thinking and practice on how and to provide critical and objective Delhi 2014 28 international networks and builds to make cities fairer and more analyses of trends and prospects temporary institutions to help find sustainable for the next generation for urban development. NIUA has better solutions to global challenges. of urban dwellers, who will make assisted in policy formulation and Mapping initiatives 29 It targets future decision-makers, up over 70 per cent of the global program appraisal and monitoring Initiatives in Delhi’s metropolitan area but also attempts to make its work population by 2050. for the Ministry of Urban accessible to a wide public audience. Development, state governments, Delhi 2014 winners 30 The Society is dedicated to multilateral agencies and other the legacy of Alfred Herrhausen, private organizations. It contributed former spokesman of the Deutsche to the National Commission on Delhi 2014 shortlist 32 Bank board of directors, who Urbanization, participated in drafting The jury on adjudicating 135: the Delhi Shortlist advocated responsible leadership, the 74th Constitutional Amendment corporate social responsibility and of 1992, prepared the Draft National The Multiplicity of Delhi: 36 good governance in an exemplary Urban Policy and other documents Learning from the Award Process manner until his assassination for the roll out of the Jawaharlal Priya Shankar by terrorists in 1989. The Alfred Nehru National Urban Renewal Herrhausen Society is an expression Mission (JNNURM). It also guided Credits 42 of Deutsche Bank’s worldwide the discourse on municipal finance by commitment to civil society. framing the Model Municipal Law. INTERVIEW thomas matussek Managing Director Alfred Herrhausen Society

Undoubtedly, Delhi’s greatest What role can the Deutsche Bank Urban unrecognized in the public eye. It challenges are connected to Age Award play in working on these also recognizes partnerships that Having lived in Delhi for seven years its very fast growth: Housing, challenges? involve more powerful figures, such yourself, what do you find special about transport, water, air quality – In as governments, but also grassroot this city? short, everything which makes The two projects that have won actors. Such partnerships create a city livable. Over the last the 2014 award, Chintan and synergies which are important for Delhi is a truly ancient city. three decades, the time span Goonj, are both concerned with the future of any mega city. Historically, there are really eleven that I watched Delhi, enormous challenges connected to Delhi’s cities of Delhi built upon each progress has been made. The rapid growth, such as sanitation, other. Today, we live in the 12th metro, many new ring roads and recycling and working conditions. city, where the ancient hits the new resettlement colonies for the Chintan specifically tackles the Ambassador Thomas Matussek modern, archaic India hits the laborers, which flock to the city problem of waste management and had a career in the Diplomatic Service of 21st century. This makes it lively, from all parts of India, have been working conditions of rat pickers. 37 years. He served inter alia as Minister vibrant, exciting, but it also poses built. But of course this is not By awarding these two projects, in Washington, Ambassador in London, a great challenge: How to make it enough. When I left India in 1986, the Deutsche Bank Urban Age to the U.N. in New York and in India. He livable for its people. A rich cultural it had six million inhabitants. Award recognizes the severity of joined Deutsche Bank in 2011 and became heritage, enormous wealth, but also When I left it in 2012, it had these challenges and enables the Head of the Alfred Herrhausen Society abyssal poverty exist side by side. 17 million. When daily 1,500 people of Delhi to find solutions in 2013. The people of Delhi are constantly new vehicles are being registered for them. transforming, reshaping their in a city which already has more colonies and neighborhoods. So the cars than Mumbai, Kolkata and city is in constant transformation, Chennai put together, where the Looking at this year’s and past in constant fermentation. It will winter fog is so dense that even Deutsche Bank Urban Age Awards, soon be the second biggest city airplanes can often not land at what impact can the award have on life in the world. Will it then still be Indira Gandhi Airport, very in urban spaces? a place in which all of its citizens drastic measures to improve want to live? or at least safeguard the life The Deutsche Bank Urban Age of its citizens are needed. The award brings attention to issues new government’s emphasis on that are often not discussed openly What are the greatest challenges that urbanization is a good beginning. and recognizes informal efforts the city faces from your perspective? that often would have remained

8 Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award Delhi 2014 Interview 9 INTERVIEW rahul mehrotra Chairman of Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award Jury 2014

both at the community as well transformations. And so the NGO commercial city where the tradition as city level. In short, a fantastic sector, civil society and public- of public private partnerships is What kinds of projects applied to as well as challenging range of private partnerships become the perhaps more mature. Accordingly, the 2014 Deutsche Bank Urban Age nominations to work with. key in building capacity and trying many projects in Mumbai focused award in Delhi? to solve problems often with direct on cohesive urban interventions involvement with communities. with physical dimensions and There was a fantastic pool of over What are the projects that applied The projects that applied represent sometimes complex forms of 130 applications and looking at for the award saying about the city that issue or condition most partnerships. In the case of Delhi, these carefully, we realized that of Delhi? precisely! where the geography in some there were some clear patterns ways is much more amorphous, and categories of themes that In the city of Delhi there are some the projects were sometimes not seemed obvious. Sanitation really daunting problems, which You already supported the Deutsche as physically tangible. Instead projects formed a really large pool, are also representatives of problems Bank Urban Age Award in Mumbai they begin to create networks and so did projects that had to do in other parts of urban India. These in 2007. What similarities and to intervene in the public arena with self-employment, economic problems are essentially based differences stood out between the in much more intangible ways generation, public space, culture, on the rapid transformation of projects that applied in Delhi and through new processes that they heritage and transportation. If one cities, which has led to an inability Mumbai? invented and established. Physical had to categorize the applications of the government to manage spatial arrangements in Delhi more broadly, there were social these cities and to keep up with The similarities between the perpetuate separation much more infrastructure projects on the one the rate of growth. Planning in award in Mumbai and Delhi are acutely than in Mumbai and so hand and physical infrastructure most urban conditions in India that they both recognize the role the projects in Delhi are much projects on the other. The physical has become retroactive and not of public-private partnerships, more about empowering people infrastructure projects were speculative and so essentially all collaborations, and the importance both spatially but also through nominations like the parks, the forms of infrastructure follow of the NGO sector working with institutional access to what is The two projects that have won are critical for the city. Goonj is Metro, transportation systems, growth (to mop up the mess) and communities in improving the considered the ‘formal’ city. the award this time, Chintan about systemic thinking, which the street as public space but also do not lead growth – the way quality of life in the city. The and Goonj, are both about the connects the middle class in urban the space for livelihoods. The good planning should. One of the difference is that the physical form questions of sanitation, recycling areas to rural populations. It social infrastructure projects were most important reasons that this of these cities is rather unique From your perspective what is the resources, employment and income shows how recycling material can education programs like schools, happens is the lack of capacity with in each case and thus raising potential of this year’s winning generation for poorer sections of actually penetrate broader national clinics, art spaces or projects that the formal government institutions specific challenges. Mumbai is projects to impact life in Delhi in society. But each project represents ecologies. It also demonstrates had to do with capacity building to deal with these incredible denser, located by the sea and is a the future? a different set of issues, which how employment opportunities

10 Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award Delhi 2014 Interview 11 and non-polluting industry can work force in the city. The project a final shortlist of nine projects be embedded within residential formalizes that informal economy that represent the spectrum of areas, engaging the community, to give it stability and dignity as issues that are all simultaneously creating employment for women, an important activity and one valid in the complex construct but also physically improving critical to the public health of a of a city like Delhi. The shortlist their environment. When we city. The project also demonstrates is an important component of speak about the right to shelter, how massive amounts of waste, the Jury’s collective message of food and clothing (roti, kapad aur that would otherwise end up recognizing efforts across the Makan) the last aspect is never in unsustainable landfills, can board that are inspirational for really addressed and discussed. be integrated more sustainably the City. From that we finally Goonj demonstrates how this can through sorting and recycling settled on two projects which we be done both as a passion and within the ecology of the city. felt were incredibly well formed mission but also a business model and had demonstrated on the making it not only a replicable ground more fully and effectively but also a sustainable project. Could you describe the selection their aspirations. These were also Chintan represents a much more process the jury went through? projects we felt would resonate very complex problem within the deeply with the citizens of Delhi national construct. It deals with The selection process of the jury and have relevance for the debate the question of massive amounts was very interesting. We spent around urban issues in India. of waste being produced in urban our first day looking at all 130 India with no formal mechanisms plus projects, categorizing them to deal with this successfully. and trying to discern patterns Chintan uses this problem in a of issues they were addressing. Rahul Mehrotra sense to solve another one, which We then brought it down to a Architect and academic; founder of is the issue of employment and first shortlist and selected sites to Rahul Mehrotra Associates; livelihoods. They work with visit on the second day. On these professor of Urban Design and Planning communities, which are otherwise visits we met the players involved and chair of the Department of Urban marginalized: rag pickers, and also got a first hand sense Planning and Design, Harvard University (meaning people who recycle of the constituencies that were material) are often not given the beneficiaries. On the third day we dignity of being part of a legitimate began to deliberate and created

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Mumbai, 2007 São Paulo, 2008 Istanbul, 2009 Mexico City, 2010 Cape Town, 2012 Rio de Janeiro, 2013 Delhi, 2014

“Out of the 135 applicants, a large number aimed at involving the community and then including the support of the public authorities. If this public-private partnership model can be applied at a local community level, it could enhance the civic quality of Delhi.”

VIJAI KAPOOR activities with partners in local Bandstand promenade, Bandra MUMBAI government. It was singled out for Land’s End and Juhu Beach. an its innovative slum sanitation The project created an open 2007 program, which increased the public space that is accessible to availability of public toilets for all sections of Mumbai’s crowded number of entries 74 Mumbai residents. A partnership population. Significantly, the with the World Bank-funded restoration project, which is winners Triratna Prerana Mandal (TPM), Mumbai Municipal Corporation of Greater maintained by residents, helped Waterfronts Center Mumbai, which constructed spur a larger citywide initiative at the new toilets, TPM used these the western waterfront. MWC has special mention toilets as key nodal points to been involved in a similar project Urban Design Research Institute (UDRI) create dynamic spaces offering at the Dadar-Prabhadevi beach the mumbai 2007 jury computer classes, English- area, a 4km-long public area that language tuition, child-care includes two municipal gardens. shabana azmi Actor and social activist; goodwill services and women’s self-help ambassador for United Nations and skills groups. TPM is also Population Fund. active in solid waste management Special mention Situated on the western coast to two transformative projects and administers a program that ricky burdett, chair Urban Design Research Academic and researcher; of India, in the Ulhas River that demonstrated how Mumbai teaches residents waste collection, professor of urban studies at London estuary, Mumbai is India’s leading citizens had improved the lives classification and composting Institute (UDRI) School of Economics and Political commercial and cultural center. of local residents and the quality skills. Science (LSE); director of LSE Cities The city, which is home to the of their urban environment Established as a trust to enrich and the Urban Age programme. country’s film industry and through innovative partnerships. public understanding of Mumbai’s rahul mehrotra stock exchange, pays almost 40% Mumbai Waterfronts Center historic Fort district, UDRI’s Architect and academic; founder of Rahul of the nation’s taxes. Chronic work has led to increased Mehrotra Associates; professor of Urban overcrowding and urban poverty Historically, Mumbai’s 34km-long awareness about the city’s history Design and Planning and chair of the Winners Department of Urban Planning and Design, is nonetheless a commonplace western waterfront was ravaged and architectural heritage. Its Harvard University. feature of everyday life in Mumbai. Triratna Prerana Mandal (TPM) by indiscriminate waste disposal lobbying resulted in the passing More than half of Mumbai’s and unplanned development. of a landmark urban heritage suketu mehta Journalist and author; associate professor population live in slum settlements Founded in 1985 by a group of Frustrated by the state of the preservation law, and prompted in journalism at New York University. occupying a mere 10% of the young men who met at a cricket city’s waterfront, a group of local the restoration of Elphinstone city’s land. The city’s largest club in Mumbai’s Santa Cruz Bandra residents joined forces to College, one of the oldest colleges enrique norten slum, Dharavi, has population neighborhood, this non-profit improve and reclaim a 7km stretch of the University of Mumbai, Architect and academic; founder of TEN Arquitectos & Miller; chair of architecture densities of 82,000 people per community-based organization of shoreline, including the Bandra which is housed in a Romanesque at University of Pennsylvania. km2. Mumbai’s slums fall into oversees a broad range of Carter Road promenade, Bandra Transitional style building. two categories: authorized UDRI has worked with anthony williams Businessman and city politician; slums, which are serviced with neighborhood associations and former mayor of Washington DC and basic infrastructure, and the far local government to secure the CEO of Primum Public Realty Trust. more numerous (60%) illegal restoration and regeneration of settlements, which have no the Fort district, a tangible symbol power or water and are subject of India’s collective memory to demolition. The inaugural and heritage used by millions of Urban Age Award was presented commuters daily.

16 Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award Delhi 2014 Award city profiles 17 aimed to reduce the volume of SÃO PAULO waste deposited in streams and on Instituto ACAIA public roads, while also generating 2008 income for its waste collector Established in 1998, this project participants. A collector-run began with the establishment of a number of entries 133 initiative, the project was piloted spacious arts and crafts workshop by the Company for Housing and with extensive training facilities winner Do Cortiço da Rua Solón ao Edificio União Urban Development of the State of open to deprived children from the São Paulo and developed under the surrounding favelas. The success of special mention project to “de-densify” the Integrated Program of Urbanization the initiative prompted ACAIA Cooperativa Nova Esperança, BioUrban, building. Over 30 of the 73 families of the Pantanal Slum. to expand their activities into the Instituto ACAIA squeezed into the building were the são paulo 2008 jury re-housed. The site was cleaned, new kitchens and bathrooms were BioUrban tata amaral fitted, a collective power grid Film director, writer, producer and actor. installed, and the exterior of the Pioneered by the young sociology ricky burdett, chair building was awarded because of student Jeff Anderson in the Mauro Academic and researcher; Founded in 1554, São Paulo on the urban periphery. São Paulo’s the way it established a method for favela, a crumbling inner city area professor of urban studies at London achieved city status in 1711. erratic urban development is interaction between the social and in São Paulo, this project helped School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); director of LSE Cities Booming exports and immigration marked by a pronounced center- the physical, between the built and implement a series of aesthetic and the Urban Age programme. in the late 1800s significantly periphery dichotomy, based on its the lived, right in the heart of the measures that have transformed the favelas themselves. Working closely increased its economic prosperity, urban development. city next to jobs, schools and social spatial quality of the neighborhood with residents’ associations, which lisette lagnado Art critic, curator and historian; indelibly changing its character. amenities. within a short period of time. They they helped form, ACAIA in 2006 professor at Faculdade Santa Marcelina, Described as the classic second city, include the cleaning up of small initiated strategic development plans São Paulo; chief-curator of the 27th São São Paulo has managed to avoid spaces and areas in front of peoples’ and made spatial improvements in Paulo Biennial, 2006. Winner the boom and bust cycle of similar Special mention homes, creating flowerbeds in place Vila Leopoldina, a slum settlement Do Cortiço da Rua Solón fernando de mello franco noncapitals – Manchester, , of concrete curbs, using color and next to the city’s wholesale food Architect and academic; founder MMBB – and is currently Brazil’s ao Edifício União Cooperativa Nova Esperança recycled materials to humanize market that houses 960 families. architects; professor in architecture at preeminent economic powerhouse. the facades of buildings and In addition to the construction of Universidade São Judas Tadeu, São Paulo. São Paulo’s GDP is in excess of Abandoned buildings are common It is not uncommon for residents exposed infrastructures, creating a new sewage system and paved enrique norten $10,000 per capita. The city’s in many Brazilian cities. In 2007, of poorly serviced favelas to throw public artworks and the staging of streets, the initiative created a new Architect and academic; founder of TEN pronounced wealth – it is home to 619,915 vacant but habitable their waste into ditches and streams collective activities such as painting public space with play equipment Arquitectos & Miller; chair of architecture 30,000 dollar-based millionaires – housing units existed in urban that flow into the city’s main river, sessions. All materials used in and an "art-cabin" that is used at University of Pennsylvania. is matched by high levels of urban São Paulo. Built in the 1970s, 934 Rio Tietê. The Cooperativa Nova the project come from waste and extensively by local children. raí souza vieira de oliveira poverty, UN-Habitat categorizing Rua Solón is a partially completed Esperanca, a recycling initiative, garbage found in the neighborhood. Footballer and social activist; founder and 30% of its citizens as “poor’. While concrete-frame multi-storey director of the Foundation Gol de Letra, living conditions in São Paulo are structure close to São Paulo’s a UNESCO worldwide model for supporting at-risk children. not comparable to those of slums of central district. Squatter families Nairobi or Mumbai, it is estimated occupied it in the 1980s and relied anthony williams that more than four million citizens on a precarious system of electrical Businessman and city politician; former live in slum dwellings, on the and water supply. Working with a mayor of Washington DC and CEO of Primum Public Realty Trust. streets or in unregulated, sub- variety of partners, São Paulo’s standard housing, often situated Faculty of Architecture initiated a

18 Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award Delhi 2014 Award city profiles 19 boys and girls to spend time with ISTANBUL dedicated volunteer musicians. By creatively adapting the unused 2009 basement of the local state school into a bright and airy space number of entries 87 where children spend afterschool hours playing accordions, winner Music for Peace learning composition, repairing instruments, performing and eating Children Center provides child-care special mention together, the initiative fulfills an and education facilities designed The Foundation for Support of Women’s important social need. to empower local women. Run on Work, Children of Hope Foundation – Bakirköy Youth House Apart from its obvious social a volunteer basis by the First Step impact on the children and their Women’s Environment, Culture the istanbul 2009 jury families, many of them recent and Enterprise Co-operative, the immigrants from poorer regions center offers classes on leadership, behiç ak Cartoonist, author, playwright and in Turkey, the project represents a entrepreneurship and domestic documentary film director. commitment to an inner-city area violence, as well as networking Turkey’s leading city, Istanbul writes Asu Aksoy in Living in the suffering from disinvestment and opportunities for women from all ricky burdett, chair has been described as the “hip Endless City (2011), an Urban Age increasing deprivation. The project backgrounds to help them overcome Academic and researcher; professor of urban studies at London city on the Horn” and “one of publication. Many of the projects is an innovative investment in marginalization and social exclusion. School of Economics and Political the coolest cities in the world”. addressed some of the critical human and social capital, which Science (LSE); director of LSE Cities It is also one of 23 global cities problems faced by Istanbul’s uses arts and culture in a highly and the Urban Age programme. expected to reach 10-million-plus most fragile communities – new pragmatic and unsentimental way Children of Hope Foundation – ça lar keyder inhabitants by 2015. “The city immigrants, isolated women, to promote urban regeneration. Bakirköy Youth House Writer and academic; professor of hasn’t grown – it has exploded, disadvantaged children, and sociology at Bogaziçi University, Istanbul overrun by a surge of poor disabled and homeless young Young Turkish women and and SUNY-Binghamton, New York. immigrants from Anatolia in men – while others focused men are no longer eligible for enrique norten eastern Turkey and the Black Sea on the spatial inadequacies of state support if they become Architect and academic; founder of TEN region,” reported Spiegel in 2007. this rapidly growing city: traffic marginalized and homeless Arquitectos & Miller; chair of architecture Migrant workers often resort to congestion, lack of open space and after the age of 18. This citywide at University of Pennsylvania. living in makeshift houses known restoration of the city’s heritage. initiative provides a safe haven for han tümertekin as gecekondus, many on Istanbul’s the chiefly young men involved in Architect and academic; principal at fringes. Although illegal, they are family violence, crime and drug- Mimarlar Tasarim Danismanlik; tolerated by a city government addiction with nowhere else to visiting professor at Graduate School Winner of Design, Harvard University. struggling to engage the city’s Special mention go. The Bakirköy House for young mounting exclusionary dynamics. Music for Peace people provides clean and safe anthony williams “Insufficient welfare state The Foundation for Support of short term accommodation for Businessman and city politician; former Women’s Work mayor of Washington DC and CEO of Primum structures alongside the collapse This project in Edirnekapi, one the underprivileged, where they Public Realty Trust. of informal and identity-based of Istanbul’s most disadvantaged receive health and social advice incorporation mechanisms in the inner-city neighborhoods, offers Located in Nurtepe, a mixed and vocational training. This helps arzuhan do an yalçında city have created exclusionary free musical education to local and socially fragmented area with them to re-integrate themselves Businesswoman; chairperson of Doğan TV Holding, Istanbul. dynamics that operate on a much school children between the ages of a high proportion of deprived into society. larger scale than ever before,” 7 and 14. The project allows young immigrant families, the Women and

20 Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award Delhi 2014 Award city profiles 21 focuses on the recovery of public MEXICO CITY spaces through a variety of initiatives. A partnership between 2010 the Iberoamericana University and members of the local community, number of entries 193 the project includes environmental education, technological winner Miravalle Community Council literacy and skills training. The Iberoamericana University offers special mention organizations and local individuals. people. The project’s founders, advice on implementing projects CODECO, Culture Center Consejo Agrarista, It supervises a solid waste who acknowledge the existence and also facilitates introductions Recovering Spaces for Life management project involving the of gangs as a legitimate means of that enable local community the mexico city 2010 jury collection and recycling of two tons collective identity, created sport members to find jobs in Santa Fe, of PET plastic per week, which facilities, working spaces, artistic one of Mexico City’s major business vanessa bauche generates employment for 30 young workshops and a library. They districts. Additional projects Actress and social activist. people. It also oversees a cultivation provide skills training to broaden include a workshop in psychosocial ricky burdett project that provides fresh produce, the employment opportunities risk prevention, which is offered at Academic and researcher; In the 1970s, demographers for the fourth cycle of the award in particular vegetables, for a of participants and promote legal various schools in the area. professor of urban studies at London predicted that Mexico City would suggested the existence of strong low-budget lunchroom, ensuring graffiti and artistic work as an School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); director of LSE Cities reach 30-million inhabitants by and diverse alliances aimed at healthy nutrition. A comprehensive alternative to drugs, crime and and the Urban Age programme. the 2000, a prognosis that never improving the urban environment project, Miravelle also offers a violence. They have undertaken transpired. According to UN- and quality of life. The support of wide variety of sport and cultural several cultural and sports jose castillo, chair Architect and academic; co-founder of HABITAT, the city's population has universities, local authorities and services – art workshops, dance initiatives to foster community arquitectura 911sc; professor at School of peaked at just under 20-million, government programmes, as well classes, a skateboarding park – as integration. Their work in Architecture, Universidad Iberoamericana, even as migrants search for better as the cooperation of different well as an education program Iztapalapa has contributed to Mexico City. opportunities in other cities, such community organizations, has been aimed at helping residents changing perceptions of denise dresser as Guadalajara and Monterrey. an important factor in the success overcome the technological gap. the borough, once deemed a Writer, political analyst and academic; Despite some congested historic of these projects. They have also turned a former ‘no-go zone’. and professor of political science at areas in the city center experiencing garbage dump into a public space Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, residential decline, Mexico City for social interaction. Mexico City. faces a number of urban problems. Winner Recovering Spaces for Life enrique norten This sprawl has highlighted the Architect and academic; founder of TEN city’s growing infrastructural Miravalle Community Council Located in Santa Fe, an area of Arquitectos & Miller; chair of architecture Special mention at University of Pennsylvania. incapacity, while high crime has marked socioeconomic disparity resulted in a widespread fear Founded in the borough of CODECO, Culture Center in the west of the city, this project betsabeé romero culture. Environmental factors, Iztapalapa – a historically poor Consejo Agrarista Visual artist. such as earthquakes and air neighborhood in the east of the anthony williams pollution – the latter exacerbated city – by indigenous people from Founded in 1990 by 30 gangs from Businessman and city politician; former by the city’s high altitude and different ethnic backgrounds who Iztapalapa, this project widely mayor of Washington DC and CEO of Primum mountains – are also problems. recently migrated into the city, addresses the problems of Public Realty Trust. Emanating from a range Miravalle is a community-based marginalization, drugs, crime, of social and geographical project that facilitates partnerships violence and discrimination backgrounds, the 193 entries between local and metropolitan against youth, women and poor

22 Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award Delhi 2014 Award city profiles 23 to a co-operative staffed by CAPE TOWN 11 members, who retrieve useable items, sort the balance and 2012 resell recyclables on for further handling. number of entries 254 In parallel, Thrive also runs a recycling scheme that rewards winner Mothers Unite residents of Imizamo Yethu for bringing waste to the co-op special mention made up of shipping containers public benefits organization, by issuing them with vouchers Rocklands Urban Abundance in the grounds of a city multi- and staffed by seven full-time redeemable at local informal shops Center, Thrive Recycling. purpose hall, Mothers Unite caters employees, the center is a practical and service-providers. Economic the cape town 2012 jury for 120 children, offering meals demonstration of post carbon upliftment aside, the project has three afternoons a week, as well living, earth sensitive building and great environmental benefits by andrew boraine as a variety of educational and renewable energy and resilient helping to reduce landfill waste City administrator and academic; chief creative activities in partnership and replicable urban agriculture and litter. The project’s holistic executive of the Cape Town Partnership; with various developmental and models. It has grown into a approach also sees them offering adjunct professor at African Center for Cities, University of Cape Town. Founded in 1652 as a refreshment The organizations that entered the educational institutions. These springboard and laboratory for waste-management education station for passing ships, Cape 2012 Urban Age Award suggest include computer literacy, food various community activities. programs at schools. ricky burdett Town is a highly differentiated and that the future of the city is being cultivation and first aid skills. The center, which houses a Academic and researcher; malleable city; its peculiar urban imagined and defined by citizens, The project infrastructure has genetic base of productive plants, professor of urban studies at London School of Economics and Political character is a visceral aftermath as much as by policy-makers. grown to encompass a library, supports home food gardens in the Science (LSE); director of LSE Cities of apartheid spatial planning and This can be perceived in the kitchen, food gardens, yoga/ area through subsidized seedling and the Urban Age programme. social engineering. Up to a quarter diversity and caliber of the citizen training room, playground and and manure sales; it also offers malika ndlovu of its citizens live in comfortable, groups engaged in addressing the administration office. An oasis ongoing training and support in Poet, playwright, performer and arts full-service neighborhoods in one city’s diverse urban challenges. in its surroundings, the project’s cultivation and permaculture. Tree consultant. of the most picturesque cities in primary aim is to restore the planting days aim to instill pride in the world, while, at the opposite sanctity of the family unit. this desolate neighborhood. enrique norten Architect and academic; founder of TEN end of the scale, as much as 25% Winner Arquitectos; chair of architecture at of its inhabitants face routine University of Pennsylvania. struggles, including limited Mothers Unite Special mention Thrive Recycling sanitation, precarious shelter, edgar pieterse, chair Academic and researcher; director of intermittent access to basic services This project in Lavender Hill, Rocklands Urban Abundance Center Based at the Hout Bay Drop-off, African Center for Cities, University of and the constant indignity of a low-income neighborhood a city waste facility on the border Cape Town. grinding poverty associated with southeast of the city center with Located on the grounds of of Hout Bay village and Imizamo nomfundo walaza unemployment. As many as one high unemployment and gang Rocklands Primary School in Yethu slum settlement, this waste Civil rights campaigner and clinical million Capetonians live in highly activity, demonstrates the power of Mitchell’s Plain, this educational management project revolves psychologist; chief executive of Desmond inadequate shelter – backyards, “urban acupuncture”. Founded in permaculture garden oasis around innovative residential Tutu Peace Center. freestanding informal dwellings, 2007 in a private home, it offers a responds to the complex recycling initiatives. Established anthony williams overcrowded public housing – often refuge from social insecurity, gang socioeconomic challenges – jobs, in 2009, it enables participants Businessman and politician; director of on the urban periphery, this sprawl culture and violence for children food security, education, green to earn an income by becoming Corporate Executive Board, Virginia; former adds to the city's infrastructural aged between three and 15. Now issues – facing this peripheral a part of the waste management mayor of Washington, DC. and social challenges. based in an infrastructure village community. Run by SEED, a small cycle. Collected waste is delivered

24 Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award Delhi 2014 Award city profiles 25 RIO DE JANEIRO 2013 number of entries 170 winners Plano Popular Vila Autódromo, Pontilhão Cultural. their community can be adapted Special Mentions de Favelas and a network of special mention to improve living standards. The universities, the Agencia provides Censo Maré, Agência de Redes para a Juventude. well-developed Plan identified a Censo Maré capacity building training and number of projects and initiatives access for young people to foster the rio 2013 jury which could improve the dynamics Located in the Maré community innovation and develop the of everyday urban living for local since 2010, the project revolves necessary skills to turn ideas into ricky burdett, chair Director of LSE Cities and the Urban Age residents. In addition, the project around a survey which describes realities. The network operates program. Professor of Urban Studies and established a process of working the social demographic reality of in more deprived communities Head of the Department of Sociology, Founded in 1565 by the Portuguese, projects addressed these challenges with different players in the city, and local residents whose existence is of the city, strengthening social London School of Economics and Political Rio de Janeiro is known as the and demonstrated that through identifying the core spatial needs for not captured by official statistics. networks and fostering the Science (LSE). cidade maravilhosa (marvelous city) community organization, the a vulnerable and fragile community. Organized in partnership with the creation of collaborative networks paola berenstein jacques and is, today, the second largest city establishment of processes to work Redes da Maré, other institutions by empowered individuals. Architect and urbanist. Professor, Programm in Brazil and the sixth largest city in with different players, reclaiming and local residents, the survey in Visual Arts, Federal University of Bahia. the Americas. It is widely considered open spaces by improving their Pontilhão Cultural permits the identification of the lívia flores the historical, cultural and quality and allowing communities community’s core social demands. Artist and Professor at the Communication economic center of Brazil. The city’s to articulate their needs, these most Located in the Maré community, A by-product of the survey is the School and at the Pós-Graduation Programm population numbers 6.3 million, fragile communities seize the the Pontilhão Cultural is run development of a street guide for in Visual Arts, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. while the larger metropolitan area opportunity to transform their cities by a local collective and makes Maré which, literally, puts people of Rio de Janeiro is home to 12.6 and make more of their urban lives. creative use of a ‘found space’ on the map and provides families cristina freire million people. It is estimated that beneath a busy urban motorway with an identifiable postal address. Vice-director, Curator and Associate about 22%, or 1.4 million residents, with no space for pedestrian use The project marks the spatial Professor at the Museum for Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo. live in the city’s 763 favelas. That Winner and enjoyment. Formerly used presence of sometimes forgotten population has grown by almost as a rubbish dump, the Pontilhão communities and finds ways of anna katharina herrhausen 30% since 2000 and will continue Plano Popular Vila Autódromo Cultural has become a successful articulating their needs. Head of internal and external communication, Allianz4Good, Allianz SE, Munich. to grow. Hosting the 2014 FIFA resource for collective activities World Cup and the 2016 Summer The ‘Plano Popular’ developed by open to residents, neighborhood fabiana izaga Olympics has put Rio de Janeiro in the community of Vila Autódromo associations, NGOs, arts and Agência de Redes para a Juventude Architect, Professor at the Faculty of the spotlight. The huge investments alongside planning experts from cultural groups. The location of the Architecture and Urbanism of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Vice President will not solve Rio de Janeiro’s the Universidade Federal da Rio de project not only uses space in an The initiative promotes of the Institute of Architects of Brasil, urban challenges of substandard Janeiro (UFRJ) and the Universidade imaginative way but also acts as an entrepreneurship amongst young Rio de Janeiro. housing communities, urbanization, Federal Fluminense (UFF) sets an integrating space between different residents in deprived areas to migration, basic infrastructure, example of partnership between communities, turning a boundary allow them the opportunity to anthony williams Mayor of Washington, D.C. 1997-2006, transportation and the quality different constituencies to provide into a meeting place. make the most of their lives. Washington, D.C., Chief Executive Officer of of open space. Many of the 170 a comprehensive vision of how Developed with the Osservatorio the Federal City Council.

26 Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award Delhi 2014 Award city profiles 27 DELHI MAPPING 2014 INITIATIVES number of entries 135 the delhi 2014 jury Distribution of initiatives in Delhi’s The jury, composed of a range of international metropolitan area winners urban experts and local figures with knowledge Chintan, Material recovery Facility (MRF) of the city’s diverse urban communities, met in GOONJ Delhi on 17 to 19 October 2014. special mention vijai kapoor Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Former Lt. Governor of Delhi (1998 – 2004) Nizamuddin urban renewal initiative Center for Social Research (CSR) renana jhabvala CURE, Sawda Ghevra Activist and national coordinator for SEWA 6 DDA Yamuna Biodiversity Park (Self-Employed Womens’ Association) Delhi Haat Katha jagan shah 5 KHOJ Director, National Institute of Urban Affairs

ricky burdett Academic and researcher; professor of urban 1 studies at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); director of LSE Cities and the Urban Age program 3 anthony williams Former Mayor of Washington, D.C. 7 (1999 – 2007) and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal City Council 8 2 9 rahul mehrotra Architect and academic; founder of Rahul 4 Mehrotra Associates; professor of Urban Design and Planning and chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University

Delhi 2014 nitin bathla Award Coordinator WINNERS SHORTLIST 1 Chintan, Material recovery Facility (MRF) 3 Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Nizamuddin urban renewal initiative 2 GOONJ 4 Center for Social Research (CSR) 5 CURE, Sawda Ghevra 6 DDA Yamuna Biodiversity Park 7 Delhi Haat 8 Katha 9 KHOJ

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Chintan, various corporate producers, courageous partnership-building GOONJ grassroots programs, such as Material recovery Facility (MRF), such as TetraPack, for recycling. with corporates, residents and digging wells, sanitation drives and New Delhi Railway Station. The project emerged from a institutions, a just, ecological and GOONJ is an NGO formed in the making bamboo bridges are GOONJ partnership between Chintan, inclusive approach to urban waste year 1999 working on issues of undertaken through partnerships www.goonj.org The MRF project at the New Safai Sena (an association of management in a mega-city like urban waste and social with local NGO’s. GOONJ deals Delhi Railway station manages waste-pickers) and the New Delhi is both possible and urgent. distribution. It believes in utilizing with about 1000 tons of solid waste tons of unsorted garbage from Delhi railway station. The vast quantities of untapped old and annually, allowing nothing to end the numerous trains that arrive at profits generated through the waste material in middle class up in landfills, the otherwise the railway station everyday. The project are utilized to improve Chintan households and re-using material unusable materials like torn garbage which would otherwise social awareness among the www.chintan-india.org to create second-hand products. clothes, used books and notebooks end up in landfill dumps outside rag-picking community and to The material left at GOONJ drop- etc. are transformed into various the city is sorted into organic create educational facilities for in centers is sorted at a facility run usable products through the and non-organic waste by children of the waste-pickers. by the group at Madanpur- imagination of their workers. Some trained workers at the center. The The facility stands on a former Khadarpur village in Delhi's products are also sold through organic waste is then composted garbage dump, which has been south-east, a conservative- various channels to generate funds into manure through micro- transformed into a dignified marginalized neighborhood, that that help sustain the organization. composting and the non-organic and clean working space where has seen positive changes in The last bits of otherwise torn and waste is systematically sorted into the trained rag-pickers come attitude after the facitlity was set up unusable cloth material are also various recyclable components and carry out their livelihoods. there. The nesting of the facility transformed into sanitary pads of which only 20% ends up in The facility is a part of six MRF inside the community ensures local produced for rural women under landfills. Proper management and facilities that the organization employment opportunities for the ‘My Pad’ program. The project systematization of the process operates around the city, which women in the area. The sorted forms a creative and locally leads to more dignified livelihoods collectively divert about 21 tons material is then utilized as a embedded workplace in Delhi and for the otherwise marginalized of waste from 3 landfills in the parallel currency for development demonstrates the importance of rag-picking community. The city. The project demonstrates programs in rural areas like ‘Cloth more sustainable forms of sorted waste is passed on to that with process innovation and for work’, whereby hundreds of production and consumption.

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Aga Khan Trust for Culture Center for Social Research (CSR) CURE, Sawda Ghevra DDA Yamuna Biodiversity Park Delhi Haat Nizamuddin urban renewal initiative The Center for Social Research Under the ‘Potty Project’ by the The project involves the Delhi Haat (The market of Delhi) is The Urban renewal project taken (CSR) runs two ’Crisis Intervention Center for Urban and Regional conservation of natural resources a food and craft market fashioned up by the Aga Khan Foundation Center’s (CIC’s) which aim to create Excellence (CURE), 322 household in North Delhi by the Delhi around the model of the traditional revitalizes and unifies various safer environments for women toilets were connected to a septic Development Authority (DDA) in Indian Bazaar. The Haat emerged segregated heritage sites around and help change social attitudes tank in Savda Ghevra, the largest collaboration with the Center for out of a partnership between Humayun’s tomb and Sunder through providing legal and planned resettlement colony Environmental Management of the Delhi Tourism & Transport nursery. Through the project the emotional counseling. Sensitizing in Delhi. The community was Degraded Ecosystems (CEMDE). Development Corporation dense & neglected neighborhood programs are carried out in mobilized and an awareness drive In the first phase, a total of 157 (DTTDC) and the architectural of Nizamuddin Basti has been the community for men, police by CURE led to formation of a acres of land was preserved as firm of Pradeep Sachdeva associates revitalized through proper personnel etc. regarding issues local Ownership and management wetlands to provide a healthy (PSDA). The Haat provides a space streetscaping and management of such as gender-based violence. committee. The entire system was ecosystem for migratory birds. In where craftspeople from all over the various streets and open spaces Vocational training programs are installed under the central park of the second phase an additional the country come and interact with inside the Basti, and establishing also run for women to make them the area to maintain green space 300 acres was added to create people from the city. The space various basic community financially resilient. The CIC’s in the area. The treated water from varied grassland communities. is kept alive for instance through facilities like toilets, schools and become spaces for local women to the septic tank is used to re-flush Nature trails have been created various festivals and celebrations Healthcare centers inside the meet and interact with each other the toilets and to dilute the Black through these wetlands to provide that are organized there. The 'Haat' community. Additionally, various and to discuss various social issues water in the neighborhood. green spaces. The project aims provides an alternative form of parks inside the community have plaguing their communities. at sustainable conservation of recreation and reintroduces the been landscaped to the needs environmental resources and 'market place' in a city which, of the residents of the Basti. www.cureindia.org natural heritage. in recent years, has become www.csrindia.org increasingly dominated by malls.

www.nizamuddinrenewal.org www.dda.org.in/greens/biodiv/index.html www.delhitourism.gov.in

32 Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award Delhi 2014 Delhi 2014 shortlist 33 Katha KHOJ “I’ve been on all of the

The Katha lab school seeks the school are passed on to almost KHOJ is an independent artist space juries now, and I really positive community action 6000 government schools operating operating out of Khirki village in through education and self- in the city through the ‘I love South Delhi. The urban village of believe that over all of empowerment. A school was setup reading campaign'. Khirki is in many ways a microcosm in a rejected housing complex for of India and receives migrants from those cities we’ve visited the community inside the slum at all over India arriving in Delhi in Bhoomiheen Camp, a marginalized www.katha.org search of better livelihoods. The and all the projects we’ve area in south-east Delhi. The school space that becomes a democratic has become a beacon of positive space open to the community is reviewed, I actually think community change in the slum. also used for artistic development. The children at the school learn The artists who arrive here from that we’ve seen the best through focusing on social themes various parts of the world through and creative methods like story- a residency program, engage set here in New Delhi.” telling, theater and games. They with the community through the research social problems in the various public art initiatives. The ANTHONY WILLIAMS neighborhood and find solutions social themes range from ending for them through democratic discrimination against migrant engagement. Another part of the communities to addressing the lack program focuses on skills such as of open spaces for sports and games. baking, stitching etc. The children and elders from the community are also trained in IT skills through www.khojworkshop.org the IT facility at the organization. The pedagogical tools developed at

34 Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award Delhi 2014 THE MULTIPLICITY OF DELHI: LEARNING FROM THE AWARD PROCESS priya shankar Senior Researcher and Project Developer, Alfred Herrhausen Society

Delhi, as a city, is much more different parts of the city from elite often not on the ground. With village to Abhas’ Girl Interest than any one single narrow vision and middle-class neighborhoods to Katha, children in a slum in Centers in Tughlaqabad village, or definition claims. The award urban villages to resettlement areas Govindpuri mapped their streets there were a number of educational process opens up multiple facets and to slums (jhuggi-jhopris) to historic as part of a school study project projects that said that they chose angles of the city, and the projects bastis. As part of the award process, and demonstrated their work to to locate in those areas because that applied for the Deutsche there was a unique opportunity to government officials to get them children from those neighborhoods Bank Urban Age Award reflect the visit many of these projects working to improve drainage in the area. would not travel to go to school. diversity of Delhi. They indicate on various issues in different areas With the Center for Advocacy While schools have often been that the city is about both past and of the city. These visits and the and Research, women in a slum thought to belong in neighborhoods, future, big and small, poor and rich, nature of the applications reveal in Kalyanpuri made a film which even other services, such as waste young and old, women and men, some broad patterns. led to the construction of new and and water that have traditionally urban villages and satellite towns, A pattern emerges around better community toilets in the been thought to operate on a environmentalism and production, partnerships, negotiating and area. With CURE, residents of wider scale are happening at the and much more. From a ‘heritage claim-making with the state. Safeda Basti, have self-organized neighborhood level. Chintan, an city’ to a ‘world-class city’ to ‘green Several projects occupied spaces to lobby for their neighborhood award winner, manages waste in a Delhi’, there have been several constructed by the Delhi Urban to be connected to the main decentralised manner, at different efforts to brand the city. Examining Shelter Improvement Board, sewage lines. These examples show sites in Delhi, including at a facility Are there certain activities, services process is that people matter and the 135 projects that applied for the a government agency, or were NGOs intermediating between directly at the New Delhi Railway and infrastructures better suited make the city. There are two ways award, it becomes clear that there somehow affiliated with and the citizen and the state, and Station. In Nizamuddin, a well- to the neighborhood level? Or are in which this seems to operate. is a multiplicity in Delhi far beyond run in partnership with certain indicate that knowledge, research, off neighborhood, residents of the these projects filling the gap in an The first is that it is important for easy branding. government programs, though documentation and community- area together with the Center for absence of city-wide services and planners and policy-makers to The projects that applied for they appeared to have a complex organization can also be powerful Science and Environment, have infrastructure? understand what people want, how the award varied in scale, varied in and contested relationship. There tools for claim-making. helped promote decentralised water These projects and the award they behave and the reasons for the sector and varied in location. Some were several projects that involved Another pattern that emerges is management through community- process in Delhi also reveal certain choices that they make. Planning overarching categories and themes community mobilization and around decentralized interventions, based water harvesting. In Sawda insights about what matters in in Delhi, perhaps due to its colonial emerged reflecting key challenges organization in order to make projects and activities that offer Ghevra, a resettlement area, a a city, some of which appears legacy, has sometimes been about in the city such as sanitation, claims for facilities such as toilets, improvements and solutions at a decentralised sewage solution obvious but is often forgotten, trying to impose order and plans mobility, public space, education, sewage infrastructure, and other neighborhood rather than city- is being provided through a especially in the face of rapid urban on people and the city rather than employment, recycling and waste public services. Services that, in wide scale. From the Saakshar community-managed septic tank. growth, daunting challenges and trying to work with the realities of management; and gender and principle and on paper, should program in Mahavir Enclave to the These projects raise interesting complex politics. Perhaps the most the ways people live and work in women’s safety. They were located in and do exist but in reality are Samarpan school in Kishangarh questions around scale and level. significant lesson from the award the city. Policy-making, in many

36 Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award Delhi 2014 The Multiplicity of Delhi 37 parts of the world, has sometimes with the processes of community and Old Delhi to urban villages projects that applied ranging from been driven by the principles of organization and various hurdles in Ayanagar and Khirki to new city-wide initiatives such as the economics and rational-choice and setbacks that formed part of resettlement neighborhoods in Delhi Metro to extremely small theory, while the ways in which these efforts. Bawana and Savda Ghewra to and local recycling, employment people actually make choices is The second key insight from extremely deprived settlements and education initiatives, it became much more complex and difficult to the award process is that space in Seemapuri. Each of these apparent that different scales, both predict. There were several examples matters, both in its flexibility and neighborhoods have unique large and small go into the making of resettlement neighborhoods in its specificity. There were many typologies and characteristics, they of a city, and both can be immensely where those who resettled quickly projects that demonstrated the are distinct spaces. While thinking significant for quality of life in the and to learn from each other. It is moved and left, and buildings for flexibility of space and the multiple about and planning for the city, it city in different ways. only then, when the multi-faceted low-income groups (such as the one uses that it can be put to. From is important to keep in mind the While the multiplicity realities of the city are understood, now utilized by the Katha school in Navjyoti’s ‘gulli-schools’ in Bawana distinct features of its different and diversity of the different that a robust and meaningful Govindpuri) were never occupied by where narrow lanes are used neighborhood. It is important, neighborhoods and areas of vision for Delhi can begin to be those for whom they were intended. for teaching to Ashray Adhikar where feasible, for activities, projects Delhi offer enormous richness articulated. The second way in which this Abhiyan’s clinic, which just pops- and interventions to work with and potential for the city, it also operates is that it is important for up on certain days of the week in these features. For example, Goonj, presents risks of fragmentation. people to have a stake (and this does a courtyard near Jama Masjid to a winning project, works with the Many in the city stay within certain not have to be a monetary stake) in Khoj’s art gallery which is also used very specific space in Madanpur- areas, having no idea sometimes Priya Shankar facilities that are meant for them. for dance classes. This flexibility of Khadar, an urban village, to embed even of the names, let alone the Senior Researcher and Project Developer There were also several examples space is significant for Delhi and a center of production in the area. characteristics of other areas, even at the Alfred Herrhausen Society and of community toilets and facilities other Indian cities. The specificity of The third key insight from the in close geographical proximity. Urban Age India Lead at LSE Cities, led falling into disrepair because they space refers to the distinct features award process is that small actions While this may be true of all the Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award were not maintained. Of course, and characteristics, what some matter, and that both small and cities to some extent, in Delhi, process in Delhi. She has also managed it is far too easy to romanticize call the urban grain, of different large-scale initiatives are important the differences between these the first Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award community action, while the areas in Delhi, and the importance for Delhi. In Chintan’s Material areas, not only in socio-economic in Mumbai 2007. realities of collaboration and day- of being embedded within these. Recovery Facility at New Delhi terms, but also in varying spatial to-day working together, especially Many in Delhi traverse only a few Railway Station, for example, just characteristics, appears strong. in difficult living conditions, are parts of the city. The award process the small intervention of making a The award process aims to open up much more complicated. There were offered the opportunity to see many simple shed and providing gloves, different dimensions of the city and several applicants that were very different parts of the city from old creates a radically different working to encourage different parts and open about the difficulties they had settlements in Nizamuddin Basti environment for rag-pickers. With areas of the city to see each other

38 Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award Delhi 2014 The Multiplicity of Delhi 39 “My vision for Delhi is a city where women are welcomed and happy in public spaces any time of the day, where lower-income people have dignified housing and where everyone has enough work opportunities.”

RENANA JHABVALA sources images credits alfred herrhausen society’s archive; cover Olaf Jacobs; Editors: Priya Shankar, Senior Researcher and Project handmade urbanism pp. 2–3 Nitin Bathla; Developer at theAlfred Herrhausen Society Marcos L. Rosa and Ute Weiland (ed.), 2013; led the Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award p. 4 Olaf Jacobs; process in Delhi. endless city Nitin Bathla, Award Coordinator Delhi 2014 Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic (ed.), 2007; p. 9 Olaf Jacobs; Linda Radau, Project Manager Alfred Herrhausen Society living in the endless city p. 11 Nitin Bathla; Ansgar Gessner, Senior Manager Programs Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic (ed.), 2011; and Strategy Alfred Herrhausen Society p. 13 Olaf Jacobs; miniskirts meet minarets in Design: the new istanbul p. 14 Olaf Jacobs; Gipfelgold Werbeagentur GmbH by Annette Grossbongardt, Spiegel; pp. 16–17 Mumbai, Archive Alfred Publisher: mumbai’s quest for “world city” status, Herrhausen Society: Robert Weiland, Alfred Herrhausen Society pamphlet issued by UN-Habitat; Olaf Jacobs; pk das & associates; pp. 18–19 São Paulo, Archive Alfred Herrhausen Society, Kristine Stiphany; sao paulo: a tale of two cities from UNHabitat’s Cities and Citizens pp. 20–21 Istanbul, series, 2010; Archive Alfred Herrhausen Society; the world factbook pp. 22–23 Mexico City, Organized by Central Intelligence Agency – U.S.; Archive Alfred Herrhausen Society; state of the world’s cities – trends in latin pp. 24–25 Cape Town, america & the caribbean: urbanization & Archive Alfred Herrhausen Society; metropolitanization pamphlet issued by UN-HABITAT, 2004. pp. 26– 27 In association with Pontilhão Cultural, Maré, Marcos L. Rosa; Plano Popular Vila Autódromo, Olaf Jacobs; Censo Maré, Marcos L.Rosa; Agência de Redes para a Juventude, Adair Aguiar; in co-operation with p. 29 Mapping, Nitin Bathla;

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p. 44 Olaf Jacobs; “I think that we are moving towards an urban age where collective action and civic engagement are going to be the only way to move forward and the only way to make any solution sustainable.”

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