Nair, Aditi Portfolio by Aditi Nair

PORTFOLIO (Works between 2015-2019)

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CONTENT Cohab

Collective strategies for Habitation,Brooklyn|Urban Design................................................Pg. 1-6

Let’s talk

An alternative pedagological tool for intergenerational conversation

|Urban Design.......Pg. 5-10

Aditi is a Urban Designer with keen interest in community led practices. Applies research capabilities and design tools to co-create people based solutions, embedded in social justice, inclusion, diversity and an equitable future. Interested in establishing sustainable community based systems to address

SQF in Red Hook

Analysing Stop Question Frisk Data in Red Hook|Data Visualisation...........Pg. 11-12

Housing Dialectics ‘Slum’ Mapping

A counter analysis of housing production in Mumbai|Planning..................Pg. 13-15

Comprehensive informal settlement mapping , Mumbai|Planning.................Pg. 16-20

public policy. Seeking opportunities in community based practices in addressing housing, mobility,

Public space in Informal Settlement

Place making, Mumbai

|Urban Design................Pg. 21-26

public space and energy efficiency at grassroot

ADITI NAIR naira012@newschool.edu

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Public space in R & R Griha - Kottamedu

Place making in a rehabilitation project

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Community Development, post flood disaster|Architecture........................Pg. 29-31

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Griha- Udupi

Sustainable housing solutions for under Tribal Develoment Fund|Architecture........Pg. 32-33

Suitcase project

Temporary Housing Shelter for the Homeless

|Architecture............................Pg. 35-36

Displacemnt Alert Project|Data Visualisation....................................................................Pg. 37 400 Years of Inequality|Graphic Design..........................................................................Pg. 38 Main Street|Graphic Design....................................................................................................Pg. 39

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Concept

Details

Goal

COHAB ! COHAB !

The project was developed by subsequent cohorts of MS DUE, Parsons students for a four year long studio in collaboration with Beyond Care, a child care service in Brooklyn. This project aimed to explore through research, planning and design, ways to create new housingcooperative Sunset Park es bien Care conocidomembers porque es la primera or it is first Finnish models Co-op, the for Beyond in cooperativa finlandesa, el modelo de vivienda que representa ents solidity and social capital Sunset la solidez y el empoderamiento del capital social. A partir m that point COHAB is the al- Park.

the current Latin community neighborhood is facing waves two to three-floor housing tyal activity. The neighborhood y displacement, therefore, the housing model nourished.

Sunset Park is well known for it is first Finnish Co-op, the housing model which represents solidity and social capital empowerment. Starting from that point COHAB is the alternative model to empower the current Latin community in Sunset Park. Recently the neighborhood is facing waves of gentrification with mainly two to three-floor housing typology and small commercial activity. The neighborhood community is threatened by displacement, therefore, the need for a new economical housing model nourished.

de ese punto, COHAB es el modelo alternativo para empoderar a la comunidad latina actual en Sunset Park. Re-

cientemente, vecindario se enfrenta a oleadas de genCOHAB is one ofel the four proposals trificación con una tipología de vivienda principalmente for such de cooperative strategies. dos a tres pisos y una pequeña actividadThe comercial. La del vecindario está amenazadamappor el desplaresearchcomunidad involved participatory zamiento, por lo tanto, la necesidad de un nuevo modelo de viviendadata económica se nutre. ping, building analysis, particiouse or a commercial co-op, prevent displacement and inipant survey and economic COHAB es más que una casa o analysis una cooperativato comerhe community members. The cial, es un modelo model. económico para prevenir el desplapropose a hosuing typologies: Commercial Unit, zamiento e iniciar la convivencia entre los miembros de la

Families Unit. Based on our and capabilities we will focus

is more than a house or a commercial co-op, it is an economic model to prevent displacement and initiate cohabitation among the community members. The model is illustrated in three typologies: Commercial Unit, Mixed-Use Unit, and Multi-Families Unit. Based on our partner (Beyond Care) needs and capabilities we will focus

comunidad. El modelo se ilustra en tres tipologías: Unidad comercial, Unidad de uso mixto y Unidad multifamiliar. Sobre la base de las necesidades y capacidades de nuestro socio (Beyond Care), nos centraremos en desarrollar tres escenarios para la Unidad de múltiples familias.

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Team: Mixed-Use Aditi Nair Uso-mixto Amy Issa Jacqui Casteneda Supervisor: Gabriela Rendon Collaboration: UHAB Beyond Care Centre for Family Life NYCCLI

COHAB !

Time: Fall Semester 2018

Multi-Families Multifamiliares

on developing three scenarios for the Multi-Families Unit.

COHAB CO-OP IS MORE THAN A HOUSING OR COMMERCIAL PROJECT, IT IS PROJECT TO COHABITATE

COHAB CO-OP ES MÁS QUE UN PROYECTO DE VIVIENDA O COMERCIAL, ES UN PROYECTO PARA COHABITAR

Sunset Park es bien conocido porque es la primera cooperativa finlandesa, el modelo de vivienda que representa la solidez y el empoderamiento del capital social. A partir de ese punto, COHAB es el modelo alternativo para empoderar a la comunidad latina actual en Sunset Park. Recientemente, el vecindario se enfrenta a oleadas de gentrificación con una tipología de vivienda principalmente de dos a tres pisos y una pequeña actividad comercial. La comunidad del vecindario está amenazada por el desplazamiento, por lo tanto, la necesidad de un nuevo modelo de vivienda económica se nutre.

COHAB es más que una casa o una cooperativa comer-

cial, es un modelo económico para prevenir el desplazamiento e iniciar la convivencia entre los miembros de la comunidad. El modelo se ilustra en tres tipologías: Unidad comercial, Unidad de uso mixto y Unidad multifamiliar. Sobre la base de las necesidades y capacidades de nuestro socio (Beyond Care), nos centraremos en desarrollar tres escenarios para la Unidad de múltiples familias.

Mixed-Use Uso-mixto

Commercial Comercial

COHAB !

Multi-Families Multifamiliares

COH IS M AH COM PRO PRO COH

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GREENWOOD HEIGHTS

Collective strategies for Habitation

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GO W AN US

In September 2018, graduate students from the Program Design and Urban Ecologies at The New School in collaboration with Beyond Care Childcare Cooperative surveyed the neighborhood of Sunset Park, searching for vacant lots and buildings for future opportunities to provide an alternative model of cooperative housing for members of Beyond Care and the Latinx community. After collecting data on site, an ownership map was created. This map shows 72 vacant lots and buildings within the neighborhood that are for sale, these properties are owned by individuals, LLC´s and banks.

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En septiembre de 2018, estudiantes de posgrado del Programa de Diseño y Ecologías Urbanas en The New School en colaboración con Beyond Care Childcare Cooperative examinaron el vecindario de Sunset Park, buscando lotes baldíos y edificios para futuras oportunidades para proporcionar un modelo alternativo de vivienda cooperativa para miembros de Beyond Care y la comunidad Latinx. Después de recopilar datos en el sitio, se creó un mapa de propiedad. Este mapa muestra 72 lotes y edificios vacíos dentro del vecindario que están a la venta, estas propiedades son propiedad de individuos, LLC y bancos.

M3 Zone (heavy industry) Zona M3 (industria pesada) M2 Zone (middle industry) Zona M2 (industria moderada) M1 Zone (light industry Zona M1 (industria ligera) Mixed used Uso Mixto Commercial Comercial For sale properties Propiedades en venta

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COHAB PROCESS PROCESO COHAB

TYPOLOGY SELECTION SELECCIÓN DE TIPOLOGÍA

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MODEL EXPLORATION MODELO DE EXPLORACION

GREENWOOD HEIGHTS

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ACQUISITION PROCESS PROCESO DE ADQUISICIÓN

Processes in a mission driven cooperative housing development

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COHAB is a model based on initiating a mission driven coalition for truly affordable housing through a process of shared ownership and alternative leasing policies to enable home ownership by low income communities in any neighbourhood.

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POTENTIAL PROPERTIES PROFILE PERFIL DE POSIBLES PROPIEDADES

Collective strategies for Habitation

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Type 5 floor - Multifamily housing Address 738 59 st Brooklyn, NY 11220 Acquisition process For sale by bank Evaluation Regular conditions, capacity for +8 families, residential area, good accesibility. Not vacant. Option to develop A - Multifamily housing, renting a unit as economic component. Tipo 5 pisos - vivienda multifamiliar Dirección 738 59 st Brooklyn, NY 11220 Proceso de adquisición En venta por banco Evaluación Condiciones regulares, capacidad +8 familias, zona residencial, buena accesibilidad. No vacante. Opción a desarrollar A - Vivienda multifamiliar, rentando una unidad como componente económico.

Type 3 Floor Housing - 4 families) Address 832 57 st Brooklyn, NY 11220 Acquisition process Future sale Evaluation Under construction, capacity for +8 families, good accesibility. Option to develop A - Multifamily housing, renting a unit as economic component. Tipo 3 pisos - vivienda multifamiliar - 8 familias Dirección 832 57 st Brooklyn, NY 11220 Proceso de adquisición En venta (futuro) Evaluación En construcción, capacidad para +8 familias, buena accesibilidad y seguridad. Opción a desarrollar A - Vivienda multifamiliar, rentando una unidad como componente económico.

Type Commercial Address 736 39th Street, Brooklyn, NY Acquisition process Auction and for sale Evaluation Regular conditions, high commercial viability, good accesibility and safe. Not vacant. Option to develop C - Commercial property for rent. Tipo Comercial Dirección 736 39th Street, Brooklyn, NY Proceso de adquisición Subasta y en venta Evaluación Condiciones regulares, alta viabilidad comercial, buena accesibilidad y seguridad. No vacante. Opción a desarrollar C - Propiedad comercial para renta.

Type Commercial + lot Address 420 39th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 Acquisition process For sale Evaluation Bad conditions, high commercial viability, prescence of noise and traffic. Vacant. Option to develop C - Commercial property for rent. Tipo Comercial + tierra Dirección 420 39th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 Proceso de adquisición En venta Evaluación Malas condiciones, alta viabilidad comercial, prescencia de ruido y tráfico. Vacante. Opción a desarrollar C - Propiedad comercial para renta.

Macro Survey of potential properties

PROPERTY 11 PROPIEDAD 11

COHAB MULTIFAMILY HOUSING VIVIENDA MULTIFAMILIAR COHAB Type Commercial Address 736 39th Street, Brooklyn, NY Acquisition process Auction and for sale Evaluation Regular conditions, high commercial viability, good accesibility and safe. Not vacant. Option to develop C - Commercial property for rent. Tipo Comercial Dirección 736 39th Street, Brooklyn, NY Proceso de adquisición Subasta y en venta Evaluación Condiciones regulares, alta viabilidad comercial, buena accesibilidad y seguridad. No vacante. Opción a desarrollar C - Propiedad comercial para renta.

CHARACTERISTICS

Lot area: 3,005 sqFt Gross Flor Area: 7,049 sqft Lot front: 30ft / Lot depth: 100.17ft Zoning: R6B PROPERTY 12 PROPIEDAD 12

Type Commercial + lot Address 420 39th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 8 to 10 families - 8 units (option for 2 units on basement) Acquisition process For sale Community spaces: backyard garden. Evaluation Bad conditions, high commercial viability, prescence of noise and traffic. Vacant. Option to develop C - Commercial property for rent. Tipo For sale Comercial + tierra Ownership: individual Dirección 420 39th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 Proceso de adquisición En venta Evaluación Malas condiciones, alta viabilidad comercial, prescencia de Property value: $4,599,000.00 ruido y tráfico. Vacante. Estimate cost of land:Opción $901,500.00 a desarrollar C - Propiedad comercial para renta.

CAPACITY

ACQUISITION PROCESS

COST OF ACQUISITION

Estimate cost of building: $3,697,500.00

COST OF REHABILITATION

Estimate cost: $352,400.00 ($50 per sqft)

EST. TOTAL COST $4,951,400.00

CARACTERÍSTICAS

Area de lote: 3,005 sqFt Superficie de suelo: 7,049 sqft Frente de lote: 30ft / Profundidad de lote: 100.17ft Uso del suelo: R6B

CAPACIDAD

8 a 10 familias - 8 unidades ( con posibilidad a 2 unidades más en el sótano) Espacios comunitario: jardín trasero

PROCESO DE ADQUISICIÓN En venta Propietario: privado

COSTO DE ADQUISICIÓN

Valor de la propiedad: $4,599,000.00 Costo estimado del lote: $901,500.00 Costo estimado del edificio: $3,697,500.00

COSTO DE LA REHABILITACIÓN Costo estimado: $352,400.00($50 por sqft)

COSTO TOTAL EST. $ 4,951,400.00

PROGRAMMATIC EXPLORATION

This plot of land woulddeveloped and leased out. the economy generated from this commercial outlet would be used to invest in a mixed use building ( commercial+residential). Some of the hosuing units from this can also be rented out at market rate to maintain the building and aso accumalate capitalvover time. Over a period of time the capital would suffice to invest in a completely esidential unit. This can continue to a perrinial cycle of ownership acquisition.

PROGRAMMATIC EXPLORATION

COMPLETE OWNERSHIP AND OCCUPANCY BY BEYOND CARE Entire plot to be acquired and occupied by beyond care

COMPLETE OWNERSHIP AND 6 UNITS TO BE OCCUPIED BY BC AND 3 UNITS RENTED OUT AT MARKET RATE 6 Units to be occupied by beyond care and 2 units to be rented out at market rate

Feasibility testing and Program development to support housing and commercial cooperative

CURRENT OWNER BECOME CO-SHAREHOLDERS OF 2 UNITS AND COMMUNITY SPACE BELOW

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We collaborated with Housing Development Finance Lab at The New School to develop rough proformas for different set of programs. We found that by accomodating 6 families in a 8 unit multifamily house, a 30 year mortgage period would be the most efficient affordable housing for members of Beyond Care.

10 UNITS FOR BEYOND CARE (NO ECONOMIC COMPONENT) COST OF LAND

$901,500.00 Fundraising - Crowdfounding CD7 - Discretionary funds Mixteca - Center For Family Life - CUSP - Finnish Coops

BUILDING REHABILITATION

6 UNITS FOR BEYOND CARE 2 MARKET RATE APPARTMENT FOR RENT 1 MARKET RATE STUDIO FOR RENT COMMUNITY MEETING SPACE FOR RENT COST OF LAND

$901,500.00 Fundraising - Crowdfounding CD7 - Discretionary funds Mixteca - Center For Family Life - CUSP - Finnish Coops

BUILDING REHABILITATION

$352,400.00 Labor support between cooperatives + Material´s donation

BUILDING COST

$3,697,500.00

10 Families - $ 1,000 per appartment/monthly

6 Families - $ 1,000 per appartment/monthly + 2 appartments market rate - $2,600 per appartment/monthly + 1 studio market rate - $1,200 per appartment/monthly

$120,000.00 yearly 30 years mortgage Mortgage / Loan I-TIN products (Individual tax identification number) 30 year fixed rate Banks: Alterra Home Loans, Quontic Banks, The Latino Commmunity Credit Unit

COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE

Community garden open to the community

6 UNITS FOR BEYOND CARE 2 CURRENT OWNER 2 MARKET BASEMENT APPARTMENTS FOR RENT CURRENT OWNER AS SHAREHOLDER

Investment equivalent of 2 appartments - $618,925.00 Fundraising - Crowdfounding CD7 - Discretionary funds Mixteca - Center For Family Life - CUSP - Finnish Coops

BUILDING REHABILITATION

$352,400.00 Labor support between cooperatives + Material´s donation

BUILDING COST $3,697,500.00

$148,000.00 yearly

6 Families - $ 1,000 per appartment/monthly + 2 app(basement) market rate - $2,000 per app/monthly $120,000.00 yearly

25 years mortgage

30 years mortgage

Mortgage / Loan I-TIN products (Individual tax identification number) 30 year fixed rate Banks: Alterra Home Loans, Quontic Banks, The Latino Commmunity Credit Unit

Mortgage / Loan I-TIN products (Individual tax identification number) 30 year fixed rate Banks: Alterra Home Loans, Quontic Banks, The Latino

COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE

Community garden open to the community

Commmunity Credit Unit

COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE

Community garden open to the community

Cohab Collective strategies for Habitation

Sunset Park Cooperative Project was exhibited in “Inscriptions in relation: from colonial traces to plural expressions”, curated by Ruedi and Vera Baur from Civic City. The exhibition took place in February at France’s National Museum of the History of Immigration. The research report is currently being used by Housing Justice Lab at the new school to promote cooperative ownership of unoccupied multifamily units in sunset park for immigrant families.

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let’s tALk

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An alternative pedagological tool for intergenerational conversation

Details

|Urban Design

Process

Goal

Role: Graduate Student Team: Aditi Nair Callan Hajosy Jacqui Casteneda Ana De Lago Correa

Brooklyn - Queens Waterfront

Vision

Sandy Super Storm

“If y’all want to do some peacemaking, peacemake between the elderly, the older group and the younger group, because they need to talk. We [the elders] have the information, but y’all [the youth] have the resiliency as far as the physical, the possibilities. We have to be able to pass this on, but there’s some kind of disconnect there.”

Demographic Data Green Infrastructure Food scape Peacemaking Program

Red Hook

Environmental Justice

The goal of the project was to strenghten the social resilience in disinvented neighbourhoods. Although state funds and resiliency efforts are channeled towards physical infrastructure post disaster, we encountered a broken social infrastructure through our conversations with the community partners. The toolkit aimed to restitch the broken bonds between young adults and parents, teachers and students, police and youth through an intentional dialogue tool.

Dialogue and Storytelling

Strenghthening Social Resilience Social Cohesion Funding

Restorative Justice

“We need to have those conversations. Some of them are painful to talk about, you know, sexuality, gender preferences. But we have to find a way. If you want to be a real peacemaker, those are the places you gotta find peace. You have to find peace within your family, your community.”

Intergeneretional Conflict

Sandy Super Storm Social Housing Geographical Isolation

Vulnerability Climate Change

Our vision is to strengthen social resilience in Red Hook by encouraging intergenerational dialogue.

Supervisor: Evren Uzer Collaboration: Red Hook Community Justice Center Fifth Avenue Committee Community Board 6 Time: Spring Semester 2019

Let’s Talk is a tool kit and guide book for building social cohesion in fractured communities through encouraging intergenerational dialogue. It was designed after numourous conversations with youth, community members and justice center in Red Hook.

An alternative pedagological tool for intergenerational conversation

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Sunset Park

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IMPACT

The research method included analysing city data and interviews with youth organisers at the Red Hook Community Justice Center, Fifth Avenue Committe and Red Hook Farms challenges in dealing with the disinvestment and resiliency efforts in the community. A recurring challenge to build grassroot social resilience in Red Hook was miscommunication, misunderstandings and generational gap between baby boomers and millenials.

Hence to maximise impact with minimum intervention we designed a pedagological toolkit to be used by community youth organisers at Fifth Avenue Committe, based on the values of navaho principles of peacemaking.

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Material for Alternative Pedagogy We propose a facilitation tool that promotes healing, elevates personal and collective identities, repairs and restores relationships, and enhances social capacity. This tool achieves this through dialogue, storytelling, conversation, listening, affirming, sharing, and aspiration.

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An alternative pedagological tool for intergenerational conversation

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Components & Use I AM...

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The Story I would like to share with you all about red hook is...

resources The Resource cards provide the group with tangible people and places who can support the individual and the community in addressing the story or situation in order to achieve their desired outcome. There are some suggested resources in the deck. Feel free to add more as you go; you know your community best!

REd hook library In addition to providing academic and technological resources, the Red Hook Library serves as a community gathering place where meetings, workshops, and other events are held. It is a hub for knowledge, organizing and mobilizing.

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Analysing Stop Question Frisk Data in Red Hook|Data Visualisation

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ESTIGATING S-Q-F policing IN RED HOOKS-Q-F INVESTIGATING INVESTIGATING S-Q-Fpolicing policingIN INRED REDHOOK HOOK Goal

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tion exercise I wanted to posit the correaltion between the location of Stop Frisk Question incidence in Red Hook in 2019, and one of the largest social housing projects in New York- NYCHA Buildings in Red Hook. One of the outcome was also a video I made whereA federal I indicated me Court district courtvarious ruled that rry v. Ohio the manner in which the NYPD applied the political and systemic orders 1968)) tactic between 2004 - 2012 violated the Fourth and Fourteenth that influence the number and Amendment and thus was unconstitutional location of SQFs every year. Lastly I looked at youth voices ecline of SQF incidences in New York over the years from the community and tried to document their narrative of police brutality and its affects in the neighbourhood of Red Hook.

FOCUSSING ON SQF IN NYCHA READING SQF DATA FROM REDHOOK IN 2018 READING SQF DATA FROM REDHOOK IN 2018

READING SQF DATA FROM REDHOOK IN 2018 STOP QUESTION FRISK PROGRAM IN NEW YORK STOP QUESTION FRISK PROGRAM IN NEW YORK

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"The Red Hook Houses and the police, they don't get along. The parents of Red Hook feel that they're attacking their children, that automatically they see a young man walking, and it's like the cops' mentality is that they're up to no good."

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Time: Spring semester 2019

stops are down 90%, and crime rates continue to fall.

78%

Redhook SQF cases did not lead to arrest. However they remain a victim of public humiliation by the city police.

encounters. Stop and Frisk allows bystanders to f members when a street stop is in pro

SQF IN RED HOOK

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INVESTIGATING S-Q-F policing IN RED HOOK Analysing Stop Question Frisk Data in Red Hook|Data Visualisation

STOP QUESTION FRISK PROGRAM IN NEW YORK

FOCUSSING ON SQF IN NYCHA

READING SQF DATA FROM REDHOOK IN 2018

Stop-and-frisk was a police practice under which officers stopped and searched citizens, allegedlywithout the reasonable suspicion required for these interventions. “Terry Stops,” based on reasonable suspicion, have been sanctioned and used by law enforcement since 1968 when the U.S. Supreme Court decided Terry v. Ohio (392 U.S. 1 (1968)). When performed in the manner authorized by the courts, Terry Stops remain a Constitutional practice today.

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tactic between 2004 - 2012 violated the Fourth and Fourteenth 2013 Amendment and thus was unconstitutional

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Red Hook remains on of the most disinvested neighbourhoods in Brooklyn; separated geographically by the presence of the Gowanus expressway. This is also a site of major “concern” for the NYPD and has resisited historically towards high levels of policing on the streets.

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The data visualisation was made to highlight the absurdities in data collected by the first responders in an SQF incident including emotions like upset, calm, agitated.

In 2002,under the Michael bloomberg administration there were 97,296 encounters made, slowly growing to 5,00,000 stops in 2006 and 6,85,000 in 2012.In Year2013, the SQF program and its unjust targeting of communities of colour became a central issue for De Blasio. It took widespread conRise and Decline of SQF incidences in New York over the years demnation, a federal court verdict, and a mayoral election, but they were proved wrong: police stops are down 90%, and crime rates continue to fall. In 2002,under the Michael bloomberg administration there were 97,296 encounters made, slowly growing to 5,00,000 stops in 2006 and 6,85,000 in 2012.In 2013, the SQF program and its unjust targeting of communities of colour became a central issue for De Blasio. It took widespread condemnation, a federal court verdict, and a mayoral election, but they were proved wrong: police stops are down 90%, and crime rates continue to fall.

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of the SQF incidences occured inside the housing areas. Redhook NYCHA residents were stopped and questioned on suspicion.

MORE THAN 30% OF SQF INCIDENCES IN RED HOOK OCCURED NEAR NYCHA BUILDINGS IN 2019

"The Red Hook Houses and the police, they don't get along. The parents of Red Hook feel RED HOOK that they're attacking their HOUSES- NYCHA children, that automatically they see a young man walking, and it's like the cops' mentality is that they're up to no good."

- Red hook houses resident and community organiser,2012

S-Q-F incidences at Redhook in 2018

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"The Red Hook Houses and the police, they don't get along. - Red hook houses The parents of Red Hook feeland resident that they're attacking their community children, that automaticalorganiser,2012 ly they see a young man walking, and it's like the cops' mentality is that they're up to no good."

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Created by New York Civilin Liberties Union the “Stop and Frisk Watch” is a phone application that empowS-Q-F incidences at Redhook 2018 ers communities to monitor police activity and hold the NYPD accountable for unlawful stop-and-frisk encounters. Stop and Frisk allows bystanders to fully document stop-and-frisk encounters and alert community members when a street stop is in progress.

COMMUNITY RESISITANCE AGAINST RACIAL POLICING

Created by New York Civil Liberties Union the “Stop and Frisk Watch” is a phone application that empowers communities to monitor police activity and hold the NYPD accountable for unlawful stop-and-frisk encounters. Stop and Frisk allows bystanders to fully document stop-and-frisk encounters and alert community members when a street stop is in progress.

HOUsing Dialectics A counter analysis of housing production in Mumbai|Planning

Details

Process

Goal Between 1990 to 2020 Mumbai delivered its housing solution for the informal selttlements by supporting free housing though private developer led housing production. This produced 1500 projects, as claimed by the slum rehabilitation authority. The project is an attempt at mapping state led housing production mania. Can we speculatie this state led slow displacement process of the low income setltlements? How do we learn to counter and develop combat strategies to empower people with their right to stay.

Role: Graduate student Team: Aditi Nair Collaboration: Janajagriti Mahiti Hamara Shehar Mumbai Time: MS DUE Thesis

In the wake of liberlisation, real estate explosion has triggered massive private investment in Mumbai. As real estate investment and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s value rise it has severely endangered safe enclaves of self-made houses by low income and indegenous communities. The project aims to analyse macro cases of displacement, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relation to municipal governing units and super imposed global indices to problematize the development paradigm.

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A counter analysis of housing production in Mumbai|Planning

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Graphic representing number of state provided free housing between 1990-2019 in each ward of mumbai. (Ward is a municipal governing unit, similar to council districts)

By documenting the state provided housing within each municipal unit in Mumbai, we were able to focus our attention on communities where there has been an over production of ‘free housing’ by the slum rehabilitation authority. The vast disparities between different projects inspired a series or workshops and documentations to inform hosuing rights in informal settlements of the neighbourhood.

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A counter analysis of housing production in Mumbai|Planning

Programing for the project is envisioned in three stages: 1.Assembling logics: Collecting grassroot narratives of housing access 2. Record Practices: Documentingpractices in formation of cooperative housing and 3. Enhance representation: conducting workshops to enhancing the representation of margenalised communities in housing rights. These stages would help acheive the final goal of increasing homeowner agency in housing access

Prototype for zines collecting annecdotes of community led housing projects in K East ward of Mumbai. The zines also introduces the development plan of the neighbourhood for community to engage with, through a guided set of instructions on how to read a map.

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;slumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; MAPPING Comprehensive informal settlement mapping , Ghatkoper

Details

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|Urban Design and Planning (*Slum is an official word used to indicate irregurlar settlement pattern by municipal authorities in Mumbai)

Process

Goal Commissioned by the Municipal corporation of greater Mumbai, the project aimed to create an action plan for providing basic infrastruction for water, public spaces, sanitation and educational institutions in irregular settlements. By GIS mapping exiting infrastructure, we created a conditional analysis report for the MCGM to respond to essential neighbourhood needs.

Role: Project manager Team: Trupti Amritwar Sanman Koli Aditi Nair Vishal Mungekar Collaboration: Bombay Municipal Corporation Time: 3 months

From a macro survey of 13 acres of irregular settlement, stretching between Ghatkoper and Powai, the neighbourhood (unit 2) with highest threat was selected for immediate micro- survey.

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;slumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; MAPPING Comprehensive informal settlement mapping , Ghatkoper

Topographic analysis allowed us to assess earlier interventions made by the slum improvement board.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;slumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; MAPPING Comprehensive informal settlement mapping , Ghatkoper

Assesing conditions of communal toilets

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‘slum’ MAPPING

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Comprehensive informal settlement mapping , Ghatkoper

Self-redevelopment as a model for Mumbai’s housing crisis

Self-redevelopment as a model for Mumbai’s housing crisis Aditi Nair, Rohit Lahoti

Abstract Around nine percent of Mumbai city’s land possesses half the slum population. This glaring inequality is dominant at a socio-spatial level. The failure of government-incentivised market solutions to resolve the affordable housing crisis (like the Slum Rehabilitation Scheme and Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna) is evident across Mumbai, except in a handful of projects. This research plans to investigate the lesser known examples in Mumbai, where communities have mobilised themselves to become housing providers, as a response to these market failures. A social innovation in itself, the process of Self Redevelopment involves communities coming together, registering themselves as a cooperative housing society, acquiring land and being at the forefront. Through a case by case analysis of scattered attempts of self-redevelopment in Mumbai, and a comparative analysis, we argue the presence and role of multiple stakeholders—like the State, private players, N G Os, activists, academicians, and certainly, the users—without whom this community-led execution shall be impossible. We hypothesise that, slum development/ redevelopment/ upgradation is successful only in places where users have been an integral part of the decision-making process.

—— Introduction IMAGE CREDIT: pooja chichkar

The article is an inquiry into the existing and evolving housing redevelopment models in Mumbai. Through analysing three

‘slum’ MAPPING Comprehensive informal settlement mapping , Ghatkoper

Based on this analysis a set of recommendations were given to the MCGM on priority areas and areas of intervention.

Indian National Census 2011 Condition of houses Total HH in Mumbai -2.6 million

1.9 million – Good for living 700K – livable 40K - poor condition

POOR CONDITION Houses in slums

Lack of Quality infrastructure to improve livability

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‘slum’ MAPPING Comprehensive informal settlement mapping , Ghatkoper

Learning from my mapping work with MESN, I created an App called Ward Wise Watch which would help citizens see the data we collected through the GIS surveys. The app also allowed one to pay bills and see the latest civic news.

WARD WISE WATCH

WARD WISE WATCH Mock up

WARD WISE WATCH IS AN APP FOR INFORMATIVE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT. THE APP PLUGS YOU INTO YOUR ENVIRONMENT AND MAKES CIVIC PARTICIPATION EASY, FOR YOU TO ACTIVELY ENGAGE IN LOCAL DEVELOPMENT.

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public space in INFORMAL SETTLEMENT Place making in a rehabilitation and resettlement colony, Shivaji Nagar

Details

|Urban Design

Goal

Process

Context- M east ward

Project Site: Lotus Garden , before development , 2012

Role: Project manager Team: Trupti Amritwar Sanman Koli Aditi Nair Vishal Mungekar Collaboration: BMW Guggenhiem Lab Un-Habitat Mumbai Environement Social Network (MESN) Bombay Municipal Corporation

City Dump Yard (emitting toxic air)

Lotus Nagar

Lotus Garden

M east ward- Ghetto of poverty Population density- 2500 ++ PPH Population over 1 million Over 80%living in slums Lotus Nagar one of the neighborhood in M east ward

Time: 2 Years I led negotiation efforts between local contractors, developers, landscape firms and community federation. This process took was 6 months. I also made project assessment reports for UN-Habitat.

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A total denial Lotus Garden, Project of Site development by political and administrative bodies keeps the basic infrastructure in short supply which forces residents to adopt illegal ways and thus seek protection and patronage for personal good. This vicious cycle has taken away voice and vision of the community to demand for collective good.

• last developed in 1996? No funds till 2014 Last developed in 1996 •• Not a single tree, no maintenance Municipal agencies discouraged of East any public space in the neighborhood as they were MESN envisioned a public development space in Mward of Mumbai, in an informal abused by drug addicts and vandals, and community was a mute spectator. settlement located adjacent to Asia’s largest dumping ground. Through •• High compound walls with low visibility creating saferigouLocal residents never demanded its development as they were busy in other pressing issues like water rous participation mechanisms and stakeholder management, MESN was and sanitationfor to sustain life.addicts heaven drug able to deliver this visionary public space project.

public space in INFORMAL SETTLEMENT Place making in a rehabilitation and resettlement colony, Shivaji Nagar

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|Urban Design

Trust building with community

First ALM in slum area

Trust building and prioritising community need

Focus group discussions with minority groups

MESN had never worked in this area earlier , thus it was important to establish connection with the locals. MESN took up issues like solid waste management and clean campaign to reach out to the local community

In a neighborhood where socially community is divided between Shia and Sunni Muslims, where few self proclaimed leaders speak on behalf of the majority silent community, where women are not comfortable voicing their opinion in public, it was necessary to have focus group discussions separately with women, children, old people, young boys and girls, religious entities, NGOs working with in the locality, shop keepers to understand their needs and concerns.

This allowed MESN to understand ground reality and helped in building relation and trust with the local residents.

Local consensus building for design Design proposed adequate visual and physical accessibility into the garden and there by integrating all the abutting public spaces like health clinic, community spaces used for marriages, religious functions and community toilets, for effective and optimal utilization.

Challenges for integrated public space development

public space in INFORMAL SETTLEMENT

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Integrated development of public space has never been an important agenda for Government agencies working in a fragmented way.

Place making in a rehabilitation and resettlement colony, Shivaji Nagar

|Urban Design

The proposed plan was not approved by the Garden department due to not defining the garden property with fencing, making it difficult to protect and undertake future maintenance.

oncepts for integrated public space development

Concept Design was shared with the local community and municipal corporation Design Renders proposed adequate visual and physical accessibility into the garden and there by integrating all the for public space landscape abutting public spaces like health clinic, community spaces used for marriages, religious functions and community toilets, for effective and optimal utilization. It took many interactions and presentations of other examples to the local residents to visualize, why a public space needs to be open and accessible to all. Also breaking down of existing tall compound wall was necessary to improve visibility and eyes on the public space making it more safe.

public space in INFORMAL SETTLEMENT Place making in a rehabilitation and resettlement colony, Shivaji Nagar

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|Urban Design