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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... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
gender; empowerment
Free Keywords
architecture; development; housing;
Document language
English
Publication Year
2008
Page/Pages
p. 231-253
Journal
Cultural Geographies, 15 (2008) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474007087500
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)