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THE GAME IS ON! REINVENTING DHARAVI THROUGH STREET-LED SLUM UPGRADING
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REINVENTING DHARAVI
is a competition to generate new ideas, concepts and interventions for integration of urban uses – affordable housing, livelihoods, health and sanitation, recreation, education, urban design and urban planning, social and cultural activities, environment, governance, economics... in a sustainable manner. Dharavi is well-established as one of the world’s most significant communities requiring a critical re-imagination for a better future. We seek to revisit Dharavi through adaptable and multidisciplinary approaches. The competition aims at exploring strategies for achieving affordability through innovative approaches for governance, management and maintenance. The objective is to initiate an on-going dialogue on the critical issues and spread the ideas contributed by the participants, world-wide among the concerned authorities, organisations and peoples. With open access it will be possible to influence the future directions towards our cherished aims. www.reinventingdharavi.org
INTRODUCTION The common approach towards slum upgrading seems to shift. Slums are no longer considered isolated islands of poverty, but rather deprived neighbourhoods within the city. They are an integral part of the overall city system, but spatially segregated due to the absence of streets and open spaces. This caused a paradigm shift in the general slum upgrading approach. From boundary defined redevelopment projects towards citywide strategies. By investing in the common good and upgrading public spaces, former slums are reintegrated into the city and gradual redevelopment is facilitated. These strategies are widely explored in various contexts and the results are extensively investigated. Our proposal for the redevelopment of Dharavi builds on this substantial expertise.
PROPOSAL STREET-LED APPROACH We take advantage of streets as the natural conduits to connect Dharavi with the regional and metropolitan network of Mumbai. This street-led approach consists of three strategies: infrastructure & mobility, water & sanitation and regeneration & development. The strategies are integrated into a dynamic public space framework, controlling the different themes within a participatory process. As the driving force for gradual redevelopment, the framework defines six sub-projects with different goals and challenges. We will explain and illustrate this approach.
INFRASTRUCTURE & MOBILITY
WATER & SANITATION
REGENERATION & DEVELOPMENT
DYNAMIC PUBLIC SPACE FRAMEWORK
1. TURN EXTERNAL FORCES INTO QUALITIES 2. MAKE DHARAVI PART OF MUMBAI 3. CREATE AN URBAN BACKBONE 4. ESTABLISH A LOCAL STREET NETWORK 5. INDICATE SQUARES AS NAGAR CENTRES 6. REDEVELOPMENT OF THE NAGARS
ANALYSIS
FROM INFORMAL SETTLEMENT TO A FORMAL NEIGHBOURHOOD 1600-1961: INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS Dharavi originated from a former fisherman’s settlement. During the urbanisation of Mumbai, Dharavi expanded with relocated communities that were pushed to the edge of the city by the authorities. By 1960, Dharavi became an amazing mosaic of villages and townships with people from all over India.
1971: FIRST FRAME Dharavi was declared a slum in 1971, according to the Maharashtra Slum Areas Improvement, Clearance and Redevelopment Act. People were provided with taps, toilets and electrical connections. The Sion-Mahim-Link road, the 60ft and 90ft Road, were all built around this time; sewer and water lines were constructed. Transit Camps were built to relocate people whose homes stood in the way of new roads and other infrastructural projects.1
2004: SECOND FRAME In 2004, the Government of Maharashtra accepted the Dharavi Redevelopment Plan. The plan was to divide Dharavi into five sectors, invite bids from national/international players and provide free housing and infrastructure for eligible slum dwellers of Dharavi.1
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RE-DHARAVI, SPARC, 2010, MUMBAI
1960, Dharavi became an amazing mosaic of villages and townships.
2004, The Dharavi Redevelopment Plan.
Instead of developing frames for Dharavi, we have to develop connections to Mumbai.
2014: CONNECTING INSTEAD OF FRAMING This framing, first driven by the government, later by market economy, reflects the struggle to organize this informal grown society. The current situation shows the marks of top-down planning in the past, but moreover the energy of people by means of bottom-up developments. A formerly subordinated district, serving in the past only for relocated communities, gradually transformed into a hot-spot business and entertainment downtown centre of 24-hour life. Today the official city draws heavily on the labour and vigour of slum or shanty residents. The lessons we should learn from the past is that distinguishing Dharavi as an island of poverty and informality from the rest of the city does not work, despite all the attempts for redevelopment. New models for slum upgrading require a paradigm shift: slums as deprived neighbourhoods that are an integral part of the overall city system, but spatially segregated and disconnected due to an absence of streets and open spaces.1
STREET-LED CITYWIDE SLUM UPGRADING, UN-HABITAT, 2014, NAIROBI
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UN-Habitat supports and substantiates this paradigm shift. We insist on the reintegration of slums into the overall city planning & management, to foster urban regeneration.2
FIRST FRAME
SECOND FRAME
CONNECTING INSTEAD OF FRAMING
STREET-LED APPROACH TO SLUM UPGRADING THE STORY
We have successful experiences with the use of streetled upgrading as a strategy to transform slum areas to mature neighbourhoods.
STREETS ARE THE SPACE FOR ACCESSIBILITY & MOBILITY
DEVELOP A QUALITATIVE PUBLIC REALM TO OPEN UP DHARAVI, AND TO CONNECT IT WITH ITS SURROUNDINGS. CREATE A PUBLIC REALM WHERE.. .. It is safe for me to walk the streets. It is easy for me to walk to school.
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THE COMMON GOOD WHERE ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES TAKE PLACE
It is well organised for me to drive around so I can make more trips.
SOCIAL & CULTURAL ACTIVITIES ARE ARTICULATED AND REINFORCED
I have the space to sell my goods.
BASE FOR LEGALISATION AND REGULARISATION
CONNECTING TO THE CITY:
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Clear streets mark the cut between what can be public and private property.
DETERMINE ZONES FOR INSTANT DEVELOPMENT
STREETS CONNECT DHARAVI WITH THE CITY. UPGRADING THE COMMON PUBLIC SPACE CONNECTS NEIGHBOURS, BUSINESSES AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES ADJACENT TO EACH OTHER. FACILITATE GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT
Way more people pass by our shop now!
Improved accessibility opens up chances for more business.
We rebuilt our house, since we know which
It enables the government to capture tax, which we can
land is ours, and which belongs to the neighbours.
invest in the upgrading of the public realm of Dharavi.
Together with the community. Two areas were appointed to be developed as multifunctional urban districts.
People from Dharavi profit from the medical facilities in these new quarters. The kids can play together on the central square now. It’s a good place to get together with the community
We now have a good house, in the same neighbourhood that we used to live in.
CONNECTING TO THE MITHI RIVER:
FIRST THINGS FIRST: FLOOD PROTECTION!
A RESILIENT WATER SYSTEM
SLOW DOWN RAIN WATER RUN OFF...
INTEGRATE A WATER SYSTEM IN THE STREETS THAT CONTROLS THE FLUCTUATION OF THE RIVER, PROVIDES CLEAN WATER AND IMPROVES SANITATION FACILITIES. DISCONNECT DIFFERENT WATER SYSTEMS GREY WATER
BLACK WATER
CONNECT DRAINAGE SYSTEMS
BLUE WATER
I collect rain water from the retention basin to do the laundry & clean.
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Since we are rebuilding the streets,
Mithi riverbed absorbs and cleans water. And it’s a great place to stroll around!
we can easily combine it with the construction of a sewage and water system
.. AND USE IT!
We now have trees in the streets, and water when we need it the most: When it’s hot!
We now have proper toilets: public toilets on every square, and inside the community house.
To create water circulation in the nalahs, we have set up a garbage collection service. It’s great business!!
Clean water from the tap!
STRATEGY THREE STRATEGIES FOR AN INTEGRATED APPROACH The street-led approach results in three clear strategies • Regeneration & Development • Water and Sanitation • Infrastructure & Mobility These strategies are based on the prioritization of streets. It is key to ensure that strategic choices are made and that the streets selected for improvement or implementation, initially are the ones that are likely to bring the best outcome in terms of development opportunities, poverty reduction, optimization of land use and generation of wealth as a result of increase in property values.1
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Street-led Citywide Slum Upgrading, UN-Habitat, 2014, Nairobi
REGENERATION & DEVELOPMENT STREET-LED APPROACH TO SLUM UPGRADING AND PROVOKING URBAN DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE CONNECTION WITH MUMBAI.
WATER & SANITATION CONNECTING TO MITHI RIVER AND CREATING A RESILIENT WATER SYSTEM TO IMPROVE SANITATION.
INFRASTRUCTURE & MOBILITY CONNECTING TO MUMBAI AND IMPROVING THE PUBLIC REALM FOR BETTER ACCESSIBILITY AND MOBILITY.
OUTCOME OF THE STRATEGY
A DYNAMIC PUBLIC SPACE FRAMEWORK All strategies are integrated in a public space framework, capitalising the common space to upgrade Dharavi.
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A clear framework of streets gives the government a tool to steer and mediate between stakeholders, and to combine both city- and local scale interests.
Street-led is well suited for phased and incremental development through strong participatory planning.
AGREE ON THE AMBITION
Not an upgraded slum, but a normal neighbourhood! Experience with similar processes in South-America shows that in some areas a higher percentage of demolition is required to meet with the demands of inhabitants in the long term. India could use this experience to set the goals for the future of Dharavi.
The trade-offs between avoiding relocation on one hand, and better connectivity, development potential and integration into the city systems on the other, needs to be considered by the community before making a decision.
AVOID POLARISATION The framework is a spatial instrument to tune our interests with the ones from the local residents...
That’s also the perspective from which we have to approach the existing context. We have to value it in the light of the next decades, see if it meets the demands of the future generation of Dharavi.
...But it required a change of attitude from all parties involved.
So we have to create a mode in which careful demolition is approached as a way forward. We have to ensure everybody benefits from it.
FROM PIECEMEAL PROJECT BASED UPGRADING TO PROGRAMME SCALE Despite our efforts in the past, this approach works much better. It formulates a base for communication between all parties. This results in a sustainable collaboration in the long term.
THE THESIX SIXSTEPS STEPS TO SUCCESS TO SUCCESS
1. TURN EXTERNAL FORCES INTO QUALITIES • Flood protection by enlarging riverbed Mithi River • Large scale developments
2. MAKE DHARAVI PART OF MUMBAI Development 60 ft Road • Drain water to river • Connect Dharavi to new urban development
3. CREATE AN URBAN BACKBONE Development 90 ft Road • Create a circulating water network • Connect Dharavi to new urban development
4. ESTABLISH A LOCAL STREET NETWORK • Infiltrating water network • Connecting local economies and communities
5. INDICATE SQUARES AS NAGARCENTERS • Sanitation hubs • Concentrated nodes for facilities and services
6. REDEVELOPMENT OF THE NAGARS • Participatory processes and collaboration
1. TURN EXTERNAL FORCES INTO QUALITIES FLOOD PROTECTION BY ENLARGING TO MITHI RIVERBED INTO AN ENGINEERED WETLAND FOR PURIFICATION AND RECREATION By enlarging the space for the Mithi river, the capacity for the river can be increased. This prevents flooding of Dharavi during the monsoon & high-water periods. Transforming the mangroves into engineered wetlands offers the chance to connect this aim with cleaning & remediating the water of the Mithi River. As an extensive park it could function as a new recreational area, adding environmental values to Dharavi.
EXISTING: MANGROVES & BRIDGE BLOCKING WATER-FLOW
ANTLER CREEK: CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS
How could Dharavi deal with the value pressure of its territory? How could it use real estate development as leverage for the current inhabitants and communities?
ROOM FOR THE MARKET: LARGE SCALE DEVELOPMENTS PROVIDE DISTRICT FACILITIES The Government can allocate plots to initiate commercial real estate development. This would temper the market pressure to enable a gradual redevelopment of the vast majority of the Dharavi territory. At the same time it would seize the current pressure to create public facilities for the whole district. Through the linkage of these development to city-scale networks, this could be the first urban connection of Dharavi with Mumbai. Effects: • Restrain financial pressure of unlocked territory • Public transport hubs • District facilities • Gateways to Dharavi from the north and the south • High quality public space • Social mix of Mumbai inhabitants • Park recreation • Space for market extensions • Real estate profit in flood protection. • Jobs • Business • Place for temporary relocation
Within these new neighbourhoods we also realise a long-stay hotel. This is used for the temporary relocation of residents, during the transformation of the nagars in the future.
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TURN EXTERNAL FORCES INTO QUALITIES: MITHI RIVER EXISTING SITUATION
INSTANT DEVELOPMENT
TURN EXTERNAL FORCES INTO QUALITIES: LARGE SCALE DEVELOPMENT EXISTING SITUATION
INSTANT DEVELOPMENT
2. MAKE DHARAVI PART OF MUMBAI 60 FT ROAD The 60ft road is currently used as main infrastructure connection through Dharavi. Within the existing profile, Government and stakeholders could collaborate to develop a new street section, organising parking, motorized traffic and pedestrian flows. Upgraded with a light-rail, it connects to the existing public transport facilities in Mumbai, and via a new bridge to the Bandra-Kurla Complex and to the airport.
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CONNECT DHARAVI TO NEW URBAN DEVELOPMENT PLOTS The upgrade of 60ft Road can be done within the existing street section. As such it does not require any adjustments on the buildings, and can be initiated and executed by the Government. It offers a clear designation of private and public property, and a new red-line for gradual development along the street. It reinforces the mutual connection between the new urban quarters and the interweaving with the rest of Dharavi.
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FUTURE GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT WITH AN OPEN PLINTH
Effects: • More public space • Increase pedestrian mobility • Community Mix • Better access to Dharavi retail • Market more accessible • Decrease of garbage • Dharavi better accessible from neighbouring districts • Less traffic jams • Less traffic accidents • Increase of potential clientele • New possible junctions into Dharavi
EXISTING SITUATION
STREET UPGRADE
GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT
3. CREATE A URBAN BACKBONE
90FT ROAD 90ft Road will be developed as a multi-modal green boulevard, making this street a better organised space, to enhance the possibility of social interaction and economic development. It forms the connection between Matunga station and the Bandra-Kurla business district.
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CREATE A CIRCULATING WATER NETWORK The 90ft Road could be used to connect the two nalahs into a continuous water structure, stretching from the north-east to the western river bank. The natural water supply of the Mithi river, running through Dharavi, creates a circulating water flow and avoids the current stagnant waterways. Incoming water will be cleaned in the purification plant.
EXISTING NALAH, STAGNANT WATER
EXISTING NALAH, EAST-SIDE
CONNECT DHARAVI TO NEW URBAN DEVELOPMENT PLOTS The upgrade of the 90ft road can be done within the existing street section, equal to the upgrade of the 60ft road. The edge of the street marks the new building line, along which gradually new shops and residential buildings can be developed.
The upgrade of the 60ft & 90ft road can be part of a package, executed by the government to kick-start the redevelopment of Dharavi.
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GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT WITH ELEVATED ACCESS
Effects: • More public space • Better access to Dharavi retail • Dharavi better accessible from neighbouring districts • Less traffic jams, Less traffic accidents • Increase of potential clientele • New possible junctions into Dharavi Nagars communities mix • Build at new nodes • Home located workshop and office • Higher density • Better hygiene, less waste • Cleaner water
EXISTING SITUATION
STREET UPGRADE
GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT
4. ESTABLISH A LOCAL STREET NETWORK
LOCAL STREET NETWORK Prioritizing the existing streets, and connecting the dead-end streets into a hierarchic network improves the accessibility of the nagars. Naming the streets reinforces the identification of inhabitants with their living environment. Moreover it enables the different neighbourhoods to connect to the higher level infrastructure in order to profit from it.
EXISTING: DISCONNECTED STREETS AND ALLEYS
UPGRADE: CONNECT STREETS AND CREATE HIERARCHY
LOCAL STREET NETWORK
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INFILTRATING WATER NETWORK Streets have infiltration zones to drain and slow down rainwater run-off to the river. They integrate an underground drainage network. This system transports the grey water and functions as storm water control in the monsoon season. The system is connected to the higher situated nalah structure and the lower situated Mithi river. As such a constant flow of fresh water is ensured.
GREY WATER
It’s important to disconnect rainwater from the sewage system. With little purification this water can be used for cleaning and irrigation.
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CONNECTING LOCAL ECONOMIES AND COMMUNITIES A new established network should mutually connect all nagars, and re-link ‘ inner’ Dharavi with the 90ft road and 60ft road. Government and stakeholders collaborate to decide on the prioritisation of streets and how to connect them through careful demolition and reconstruction. In return better accessible living environments arise, and new street crossing nodes create interesting locations for businesses and retail development. The ambition to relocate all current residents within their own neighbourhood results in denser and more qualitative buildings along the streets.
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SELF SERVICE SCHEMES: TYPOLOGIES, WITH OPEN PLINTH, THAT EXPAND OVER TIME ARE CHEAPER TO INITIATE
Effects: • Nagars communities mix • Self-organising plinth • Better access to nagar retail • Chance on nagar collaboration • Better access to nagar markets • Build at new nodes • Home located workshop and office • Higher density • More public space • More rent from housing • Home businesses • Food trading • Better hygiene • Buildings that can expand and grow in time • Separation of clean and dirty water
EXISTING SITUATION
STREET UPGRADE
GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT
5. INDICATE SQUARES AS NAGAR-CENTERS
NAGAR SQUARES Creating a central place for each nagar offers a platform to reinforce their distinctive identity. They can be situated at the border or centre of the community, and are connected to the street network. Designed as flexible spaces, the squares provide a solution to the current shortage of open space within the communities.
EXISTING: LACK OF OPEN SPACE AND FOCAL POINT
UPGRADE: SQUARE AS A CENTER OF EACH NAGAR
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SANITATION HUBS The squares function as separation mechanisms between blue, grey and black water.
A central water basin temporarily captures the grey water of the drainage network, to slow down the rain water run-off to the river
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CONCENTRATED NODES FOR FACILITIES & SERVICES The squares facilitate main social needs, hosting neighbourhood facilities and amenities, housed in a new community centre. The commercial and social program around the squares are closely related to the nature of each individual nagar. The squares act as strong identity carriers and commercial locations. Demolition and reconstruction will be needed to create the required open space. Therefore a close collaboration between habitants, stakeholders and government should be set up, to locate and develop the squares. Relocation of residents will happen within the neighbourhood.
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Effects: • More public space • Better hygiene • Fewer diseases • More open plinths • Sanitation • Better education • Growth of food • Healthy workshop environment • Stronger nagar identity • More production capacity • Safer place to play • More collective events and gatherings • Function mix
The community must undergo an operation to remove the garbage. Garbage collection points are provided on the squares, and connected to the main streets. At night, the light-rail line on the 60ft street will be used as a cargo train, collecting all the garbage and transporting it to the 13th Compound – where everything gets recycled.
EXISTING SITUATION
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GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT
6. REDEVELOPMENT OF THE NAGARS
PARTICIPATORY PROCESSES AND COLLABORATIONS As illustrated in the previous steps, existing structures are being used and upgraded where possible. But some of the existing infrastructure (built and public space) is not able to meet the standards, required by a normal neighbourhood. Therefore, the internal built fabric should be upgraded on block level, within the new framework of streets. This part of the regeneration is based on participatory processes and collaboration between different stakeholders.
We have to agree on the ambition to not only upgrade a slum but to make it a respectable neighbourhood where people can comfortably live and work!
REDEVELOPMENT OF THE NAGARS EXISTING SITUATION
DEVELOPMENT
6.1 PHASING
The public space framework consist of 6 sub-projects, which can be read as steps. The first three steps are defined projects, with a clear scope and time schedule. The last three steps are ongoing processes. They all need another approach as they have a very specific scope. The process of the step 1,2,3 differs from step 4,5,6. The projects (step 1,2,3) can be carried out with a compact participatory process. Most of the interventions can be realized within the existing street profiles, or on plots which are already appointed for transformation. The number of involved parties is limited, and the interests are clearly defined. The processes (step 4, 5, 6) require an extensive participatory process. Different interests might conflict, and the number of involved parties is difficult to control. Some buildings will have to be demolished, people have to be temporarily resettled, and decisions should be made on prioritization of streets. Negotiations will be held according to the street-led game, which will be explained later in this chapter.
PROCESSES
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1. TURN EXTERNAL FORCES INTO QUALITIES Implementation
Plan-making process to enlarge Mithi river bed Plan-making large scale developments
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2. MAKE DHARAVI PART OF MUMBAI PROJECTS
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3. CREATE AN URBAN BACKBONE Plan-making process
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4. ESTABLISH A LOCAL STR Plan-making process Implementation construction
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6. REDEVELOPMENT OF TH Plan-making process Implementation construction
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6.2 PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE
A project management office (PMO) will be situated and opened in Dharavi. This is where all the involved parties will come together to make plans, to discuss and negotiate. The project management office brings together all stakeholders: government, inhabitants of Dharavi, entrepreneurs of Dharavi, developers and investors. The aim is to fill the gap between the different parties that has emerged in recent years and turn the opposite interests into common ambitions. The office is an openhouse. It is the place where the meetings, as part of the participatory processes within the different phases, take place. It is accessible for all inhabitants and entrepreneurs to get updated about ongoing projects and plans. It offers a platform for commenting, protest or support. People can apply for a micro credit to upgrade their businesses or renovate their houses. The project management office will be located along the new backbone of Dharavi, at 90ft Street.
Responsibilities for the projects: • Managing the projects • Leading the projects • Bringing together all involved parties and expertise • Updating the multi-stakeholder institute • Managing the financing • Implementation of the project • Regulation and legalization • Relocation
Other responsibilities of the PMO: • PR of the project • Communication with inhabitants • Communication with external parties • Update website + social media MIS (Management Information System) about the project and make all information accessible
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