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Architecture of low-income widow housing: 'spatial opportunities' in Madipur, West Delhi
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Abstract 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 r... mehr
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.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Empowerment; Gender
Freie Schlagwörter
architecture; development; housing;
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2008
Seitenangabe
S. 231-253
Zeitschriftentitel
Cultural Geographies, 15 (2008) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474007087500
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)