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Architecture of low-income widow housing: 'spatial opportunities' in Madipur, West Delhi

This article is based on a study of Madipur widow colony in west Delhi, built as part of the UN International Year of Shelter for the Homeless in 1987. Designed to accommodate widows from squatter settlements in Delhi, very few of the original houses now survive and very few of the original owners remain. The spatial stories of the participants suggest how and why and under what circumstances a State's visions of empowerment as translated into utopian architectural projects are transformed by the people who inhabit them. They illustrate how a particular set of `spatial opportunities' built into the widow colony are manipulated and seized upon by the participants to produce an uneven geography of architecture and empowerment. This article thus extends the important work on critical geographies of architecture to the architecture of low-income housing in the global South.

Architecture of low-income widow housing: 'spatial opportunities' in Madipur, West Delhi

Urheber*in: Datta, Ayona

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Seite(n): 231-253
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Erschienen in
Cultural Geographies, 15(2)

Thema
Empowerment
Gender

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Datta, Ayona
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wann)
2008

DOI
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-231921
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  • Zeitschriftenartikel

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  • Datta, Ayona

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  • 2008

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