Sunday 18 November 2012

Informal City

Informal City

                         An informal city is a self-sustained city with a certain amount of dependence on other cities but different from them.  The aim of the cluster, Urbanism & The Informal City research cluster, launched in October 2009 by Jorge Fiori, Elena Pascolo and Alex Warnock-Smith, is to explore the concept of the ‘informal’ as a parallel modality that shapes the urban condition.
                         Shivajinagar, in a way, can be looked as an informal city. It has such a huge crowd dwelling in it. People, living in Shivajinagar, tend mostly not to come out of Shivajinagar as they now consider it as a self sustained area where people of different communities live together, serving to each others needs. Such a large market area, with so many varieties of shops, all make Shivajinagar, a self dependent area.

                                                                                                                                                               - Raj Shekhar

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