Contents
I.State of Housing: Aspirations, Imaginaries and Realities in lndia 14
II. History of Housing in India 24
The Nehruvian Republic- 1947-1965
After Nehru- 1965- 1975
The Emergency- 1975- 1977
A Republic of Shifting Alignments- 1977- 1991 Liberalisation and its Discontents- 1991 - 2005 Competing Futures- 2005-2017
Ill.Ideas and Histories- discussions on State of Housing in India 46
1. Urban and Rural Housing in Independent India:The Roots of a Negative Synergy
Arjun Appadurai 48
2. Rethinking Housing in Emerging India- Some Reflections on Thought and Practice
jai Sen with deepani seth 55
3.Delivery as Space: Substantiating In-situ upgrading as Value and Process
Solomon Benjamin 80
4.Housing Strategy in an Emerging Urban Scenario
Amitabh Kundu. 88
5.Reimagining the Role of the State- A view from Chennai
A.Srivathsan 102
6.A Search by Design, for Inclusive Housing
Snehanshu Mukherjee 106
7.Some Dimensions of the Housing Challenge in India: Urban and Rural Kirtee Shah 113
8.Mid-century compulsions- Visions and Cautions about Housing in the Emerging Nation state
Mustansir Oafvi 117
9.The Intrigue of the Inside: Cities as Collections of Insatiable Homes
Kaiwan Mehta 130
IV.Perspectives on the State of Housing 138
Some Dimensions of the Housing Challenges in India
Kirtee Shah 140
Reflections of four decades of working on Urban Habitat and Informality
Sheela Patel 142
What we talk about when talking about Housing
Gautam Bhan 144
Will PMAY solve the problem of Informal Settlements?
Gautam Chatterjee 146
Suggestions on Alternatives to Slum Rehabilitation Authority Model of Housing in Mumbai
Pankajjoshi 148
Tailor-made Transformation (A people participatory approach to slum rehabilitation)
Prasanna Desai 150
Housing: A bottom-up approach
Sharad Mahajan 152
(Re)coding: In the Name of Housing
Sameep Padora 154
The Design of Housing; three decades of practice
Hafeez Contractor 156
Opportunities of Collective Living- Affordability threshold and
aspirational range
Ashok Loll 158
Housing beyond Borders: Multidimensional post-earthquake reconstruction
Nuru Karim 160
Dynamics of Housing in India; Trends and Policy Perspectives
Aromar Revi 162
Construction of Rural Housing under Awas Yojanas- need for a fundamental change in strategy
Alp a Sheth 164
A Call for Sociological Imagination of Housing studies
Am ita Bhide 166
Housing and the State: Lessons from Practice
Swastik Harish 168
The Real state of Real Estate
Pranay Vakil 170
The Riddles of Housing
Vidyadhar Phatak 172
Building Housing instead of Houses: What difference would it make?
Partha Mukhopadhyay 176
Why Homelessness is gendered?
Kalpana Sharma 178
State and the Homeless: Issues, perspectives and challenges
MohammedTarique 180
When homes double as workspaces: the need for tenure and basic services intensifies
Martha Chen .............................. ..
Enabling housing in the emerging urban: some points of departure
jagan Shah 182
Emerging role of real estate developers and the state in housing provision
PSN Roo 184
Robust Methodology for Social Housing: Case stories of Sangli and Kolhapur
Pratima Joshi 186
Lessons from 30 years of reporting on "The State of the Nation's Housing" in the US
Christopher Herbert. 188
Local Actors supply affordable, innovative, informal rental housing in India­ Can urban professionals help?
Mukta Naik 190
Funding gap in Affordable Housing
Rajesh Krishnan 192
Global models of Housing- Trends and Trajectories
Rohan Varma 194
Green is Affordable
Pratibha Ruth Caleb 196
Coming together to build Sustainable Communities
Natasha lype 198
Shelter after Disaster
Mihir Bhatt 200
New Interrogations of the Urban Housing Question
Prasad Shetty 202
Reflecting on the Emerging Paradigms
Neera Adarkar 204
1.What is a Just City?
Ravi Sundaram 208
2.Housing and the Irony of Democracy
Shiv Vishvanathan 210
4. Where is the friend's home?
Ranjit Hoskote 212
VI. Housing as seen by the State since 1947 to today 214
VII. Narratives of the State of Housing 226
VIII. State of Housing Exhibition- February-March 2018, Mumbai 232
Imaginaries 248
Contributors 250
Bibliography 262
Acknowledgements 268