Maurice Mitchell: 2 books
Learning from Delhi
Dispersed Initiatives in Changing Urban Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The inflexibility of modern urban planning, which seeks to determine the activities of urban inhabitants and standardise everyday city life, is challenged by the unstoppable organic growth of illegal settlements. In rapidly expanding cities, issues of continuity with local traditions, local conditions...
Loose Fit City
The Contribution of Bottom-Up Architecture to Urban Design and Planning
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Drawn from a lifetime’s experience of shared city-making from the bottom up, within rapidly expanding urban metabolisms in Delhi, Mumbai, Agra, Kathmandu, West Africa and London, Loose Fit City is about the ways in which city residents can learn through making to engage with the dynamic process...