de(Coding) Mumbai

"Housing within a city constitutes the majority of its built form. The quality of housing defines the image and the qualitative experience of a city. Despite this obvious connection, state housing policies and the consequent regulatory frameworks often prescribe architecture for housing unmindful of the living environments they tend to create."

UDAAN

How does urban policy and state regulation affect housing? Especially in underdeveloped places like Kumortuli. How does state policy and regulation affect cultural systems like Durga Puja? Can we say that a temporary event like Durga Puja has such an impact on the city that permanent regulations should take it into account? Is that a way culture can be preserved? How have colonial frameworks impacted the current day fabric of the city, in terms of slums and urbanized infrastructure?

What is happening to dilapidated city infrastructure? Like the ports, old buildings? Can my thesis suggest multiple frameworks of developing a city while preserving culture? Does it have to be grounded in Kumortuli? How have historic but poor neighborhoods been treated in Kolkata? What are some examples of these neighborhoods?

Michel Foucault - "The Politics of Health in The Eighteenth Century"

"medico-administrative turn of urban management"

"town planning as a response to urban conditions, with a clear intention to replace the existing "chaotic" urban form with an "ordered" and "regulated" one."