EMPOWERED COMMUNITIES The case of fishing villages in Mumbai Rupali Gupte, KRVIA Oct,12 A Case for the sustainable redevelopment of the Fishing Villages of Mumbai KRVIA Agrarian Mercantile/ Industrial / Finance, Commerce, Retail / Culture, Environment, Health, ECONOMY Administration Administration Administration Old Age / Administration 1. New technological developments will reduce the 1.Reconfiguration need for proximity in conducting business 1.Technological of production and 1.Establishment of Developments growth of Port 2. New national / international locations will displace 2.Demand for entrepreneurs 2.Establishment of businesses from Mumbai textile (National 2.Liberalization Govt. HQ & International) 3.Discouragement 3. The competitive advantage of the city are its 3.Encouragement to REASONS 3.Infrastructure of Manufacturing cultural & environmental assets, film industry, Trade Support FOR SHIFT Units health sector, etc. Pastoral Landscapes Trade Nodes, Dense Smoke Stack URBAN with incremental Inner Cities with Landscapes, industries, Skyscraper apartments, Malls, Urban renewals, resettlement FORM settlements of markets, guesthouses, worker housing, Commercial Blocks, redevelopment of colonies, conservation, gated farmers & fisher folk religious spaces incremental settlements incremental settlements communities MAIN Farmers, feudal Merchants, colonial Workers, Culture Workers, Environmentalists, ECONOMIC lords government industrialists, Corporates, Entrepreneurs & Agents ACTORS government Senior Citizens, Health Workers Pre 1650s 1650s to 1850s 1850s t0 1980s 1990s to 2000s 2000 onwards changing economy of Mumbai A Transforming Metropolis New Infrastructures – Flyovers, Sky Walks, Metro Lines A Transforming Metropolis New Housing Policies – Redeveloping Historic Precincts A Transforming Metropolis New Housing Policies – Redeveloping Historic Precincts A Transforming Metropolis New Housing Policies – Redeveloping Historic Precincts A Transforming Metropolis New Housing Policies – Redeveloping Historic Precincts A Transforming Metropolis New Housing Policies – High Income Housing Enclaves A Transforming Metropolis New Housing Policies – Resettlement Colonies A Transforming Metropolis New Exclusive townships and Special Economic Zones KRVIAKAMLA RAHEJA VIDYANIDHI INSTITUTE FOR ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES, MUMBAI THE CITY AS LABORATORY Academic programme B.Arch and M.Arch Design Cell ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION AND ENVIRONMENT CONSERVATION HOUSING SPACE PUBLIC LANDSCAPES INDUSTRIAL POST DOCUMENTATION AND AND MAPPING DOCUMENTATION 2005 TATE EXHIBIT FISHING AGA KHAN HOUSING VILLAGES EVALUATION 2005 DADAR HAWKERS PROJECT CINEMA CITY CESS POWAI PRECINCTS JUHU MARKET MILL LANDS CLAUDE BATLEY DHARAVI JUHU PUBLIC SPHERE EASTERN WATERFRONTS ST THOMAS CATHEDRAL BOTARWADI – HOUSING DADAR PARSI COLONY LOW INCOME HOUSING IN CUTTACK TANSA RIVER VALLEY PROJECT POST INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPES MILL LANDS MILL "Study and preparation of an integrated development plan for the Mill lands of Bombay", 1995. for the Correa Committee appointed by the Government of Maharashtra and sponsored by the Urban Design Research Institute POST INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPES EASTERN WATERFRONTS "Studying and Formulating Development Strategies for the Eastern Waterfronts (The Port- Lands) of Mumbai", (Current). in collaboration with the Urban Design Research Institute (UDRI). The first stage of the project was sponsored by the UDRI and the K. Raheja Foundation. The second stage of the project is sponsored by the Infrastructure Finance and Development Corporation. ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION DADAR PARSI COLONY "Conservation and providing guidelines for the Dadar Parsi and Hindu Colony Precinct", 1999 sponsored by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority. This project could be seen as an effort in organising communities towards becoming active participants in the otherwise polarised processes of urban conservation in the city. ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION POWAI "Conservation of Powai and Vihar Lake Surroundings” The project is sponsored by the Environment Conservation Society of the Mumbai Metropolitan Development Authority. ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION CLAUDE CLAUDE BATLEY "Documenting Works of Claude Batley", (August 2000 - October 2000) ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION ST THOMAS ST THOMAS CATHEDRAL External elevation (1:25) "Documenting ST. THOMAS CATHEDRAL", (January 1 321 External elevation (1:25) 20 13 13 20 111 31 111 120 307 8 8 140 2002 - September 2002). 8 366 410 The Project was sponsored by the Anglo-Saxon Foundation. 159 1 PUBLIC SPACE JUHU PUBLIC PUBLIC JUHU SPHERE Juhu: Re-imagining the Public Realm 2006 PUBLIC SPACE belonging to the shops. J U EVENTS / FESTIVALS AFTERNOON - 26 January, Republic Day (12:OO - 2:00 pm) Flag Hoisting and Republic Day celebrations. - Sarvajanik Ganesh Utsav The market vendors and shopkeepers celebrate this festival together. A temporary 'pondal' is erected in this space. flag pole bus stop cycles parked OTHER ENTRANCE TO THE MARKET Mostly used as a thoroughfare. sitting 2 wheelers parked cycles cycle stand OTHER ACTIVITIES Parking: 2 wheelers and cyles EVENING belonging to shopkeepers in the vicinity. (6:00 pm - 8:30 pm) Provision of cycle stand by the municipality. Space is also used for other shop related activities like washing and cooking. other pedestrians marketspecific consumers Mapping the Activities 21 JUHU TOGETHER INITIATIVE: IN PART COLLABORATION WITH KAMLA RAHEJA VIDYANIDHI INSTITUTE OF ARHITECTURE. 0 2 6 10 JUHU MARKET JUHU Juhu: Re-imagining the Public Realm 2006 PUBLIC SPACE 150 m Dadar Railway Station Integrating hawkers at Dadar railway station 2005 DOCUMENTATION AND ARCHIVING TATE EXHIBIT “Metropolitan Lab" (Feb 2001), a mixed media presentation archiving Mumbai’s architecture The project was made for Tate Gallery's (London) inaugural show 'Culture City', showcasing 9 cities in the World, Bombay being one of them DOCUMENTATION AND ARCHIVING CINEMA CITY CINEMA Cinema City HOUSING 2005 2005 KHAN AGA HOUSING EVALUATION Post Occupancy Evaluation of three existing Aga Khan Planning and Building Services Housing Projects. Recommendations for future policies. HOUSING 2005 CESS CESS PRECINCTS Evaluation of the effects of 33/7 on Cessed properties in four areas of Mumbai: Bora Bazaar, Null Bazaar, Girgaon and Dadar Parsi Colony DHARAVI DHARAVI Developing Alternatives for the Dharavi redevelopment Plan from the Community perspective INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS Dharavi ENVIRONMENT, CONSERVATION AND HOUSING gorai eksar charkop bunder pakhadi bhandarwada malvani manori Bhati koliwada chincholi dhondigaon Gavanpada patgaon madh versova Bhandup Juhu moragaon juhu Juhu tara mangelawadi Khar danda chimbai Dharavi Mori Road Sion koliwada Mahim koliwada Machchimar nagar Worli koliwada Mahim Bazaar Mahim Suloop turbhe Mahul trombay mazgaon mandvi Babulnath chowpatty cuffe parade jamshedji bunder sudam zhopdi colaba Fishing villages have had historical relationships with environmental systems which have eroded over time Even today various fishing villages have unique relationships with the city and the landscape. Today these areas, being located in prime locations are facing real estate pressures, inviting fishing villages to redevelop. Sale component including Five Star Rehab for Hotel, Entertainment facilities, fishing village Water Park, etc Often these models of redevelopment are market driven and relegate the existing communities to their margins without considering their needs of infrastructure, housing and public space. Transactional Capacities Resources Densities, number of activities, Social & physical networks, transactions, livelihoods, infrastructure, space, etc. cultural settling, security, accommodation of diversity, etc. Degree of Blur Skyscraping Apartments Apartment Blocks Old Labor Housing Dilapidated Bazaar Housing Incremental Settlements transactional capacities vis-à-vis type / form There are no specific regulations for development of fishing villages leading to the blind application of Slum Rehabilitaion regulations on these areas. We have not been able to clearly separate fishing villages from slums in the city, in our mapping efforts. In fact, many a times the SRA regulation becomes a means of usurping land. CRZ Coastal Regulation Zone The CRZ regulation has been set up by the government to safeguard sensitive environmental systems of the coastline. Developers have actively fought against this regulation. In fact this regulation has been recently relaxed. It was this that provoked fishing communities to safeguard themselves from these relaxations, the fishing community has lobbied with the government to bring them under the CRZ III regulation. Under this regulation, the fishing villages cannot be developed like the rest of the city. Though this protects the fishing village land, it does not address the needs of the fishing community for its own growth and development. malvani juhu moragaon In order to develop a specific imagination for the fishing villages, the fishing community approached the KRVIA. We took up two villages to study in detail. Stage 1: Meetings with community KRVIA Design Cell representatives of various fishing villages at both local and national level. th Stage 2a: Taking up two fishing villages for 4 year KRVIA a situation analysis. Urban Design Studio Stage 2b: Taking up 8 fishing villages for a 3rd year landscape study of ecological relationships and studio community patterns Stage 2c: Socioeconomic study with one th of the fishing villages conducted by TISS.