Readings on Housing Ganga Building Chronicles by Prasad Shetty / Annotated by Prasad Shetty
Ganga Building Chronicles
This is a semi-fictional narrative of a chawl and of Mumbai. Various
slices from popular stories, family histories, archives, policy
documents, fieldwork, architectural studies, ethnographies and deep
interviews are stitched together as a montage to write this piece which
opens up the history of inhabiting a city. The piece could be useful as a
narrative on the idea of property in cities, its history, its
sociality, and its various cultural and economic dimensions; or for
those interested in issues related to the politics of housing and
home-making; or for architectural historians interested in evolution of
form and spatiality. If nothing, it could be an interesting bedtime
story.
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