HAIYA DALAL Date o f B ir th
03.10.1999
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J / 2 0 2 , I n d r a p r a s t h a To w e r N r. H i m a l a y a M a l l , A h m e d a b a d
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EDUCATI O N
R EC OGN ITION
2011-2017
Secondary
Zydus School of Excellence
CEPT Catalog 2018
Studio - Rebel Bodies Rebel Cities
2017-Present
Bachelors
CEPT University
CEPT Catalog 2019
Studio - Urban Inserts
WOR K E X P E R I E N C E
WOR KSH OPS
Student Assistant at CEPT Archives
Hunnershala Foundation Bhuj, 2017 Summer
Freelance Graphic Designer
Documenting Human Settlement, 2017 Winter
S K I L L SET
IN TER ESTS
Microsoft Office
Painting
Autodesk Autocad 2D
Mandalas - Ink Art
Sketchup Pro
Macramé
Adobe Photoshop
Ceramics
Adobe Illustrator
Reading
Adobe InDesign
Baking
Rhino 6
Music
ArcGis
Watching TV
Laser-Cutting
Calligraphy
Sketching
Wood Decor
Model Making
Resin
Drafting
Gardening
PROJECTS
(UN) Common
Social Trajectories
Masked
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Paused
Housing Masterplan
Urban Renovations
Acupuncture Interventions
Fabricated Streets
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Mutating Realms Migrant Housing
Stop and Go
Bus Stop and Street Design
Lost Narratives
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Urban Corridor
Neighborhood Study
Lakes
Street Design
Documentation
(UN) COMMON Speculative Design Spring 2020 Visualization and Communication Location : Ahmedabad, India Guided By : Dhara Mittal + Nishant Mittal
23.0476775 °N, 72.5231461 °E
(UN) COMMON is a project that forms observations around water systems of the city that are entitled ‘common’. The term ‘Common’ typically means belonging or shared equally amongst assorted individuals. If we delve into the defяnition closely, one might argue, it should extend beyond humans to encompass everything living in the city. (UN) COMMON is an idea that takes on this unusual defяnition to envisage what the idea of urban commons in the city could be like. This new imagery of the idea of an urban water commons is set in the context of two urban lakes. The Vastrapur lake that was designed and refurbished for recreation in 2002 and is a popular public space. The second lake - Thaltej Lake, is a neglected water body around which prodigious urban transformations related to the ongoing metro project is proposed. (UN) COMMON is a spinal corridor with a variety of niches that connects these existing patches of water and land to form a robust ecosystem in the midst of the city. It takes cues from spatial patterns to recreate the neighborhood mosaic. Based on a defяnition, the project focuses on representative of more comprehensive and salient meanings of the term “commons”. A myriad of species to coalesce biodiversity with spatial patterns of the neighborhood mosaic. In a densely populated city where animal and plant habitat is constantly under stress and increasingly appears in scattered patches. The project offers a network that ties these scattered patches to allow the flow of energy and nutrients and thus facilitating meta population dynamics. The provocation is quite literally of imagining cities as new urban ecologies that go beyond humans to encompass everything that enables it to regenerate.
ORNAMENTAL CANOPY The strategy is to introduce a sculptural trellis (colonnade) that hosts a certain type of flowering species that bloom in the changing colorscape throughout different seasons. These intervening structures house honey bees for the harvesting of honey and function as a bee box. It not only favors flora and fauna but also enhances the human experience of strolling under a canopy of lush greens. Metaphors of movement and transition runs throughout the cloisters animated by a ribbon-like network. 6
LIVING CHAMBER As the name suggests, the design is located in the groves providing shade and safety to numerous wildlife beings as well as pullulating verdure. A series of braided pathways in the forests that create an active landscape with the focus of bringing different biodiversity of species. It incorporates a vegetation structure and floristic panorama.
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FRONT PORCH The design uses ‘porch’ as a tool to reassess what lake means to different habitats. The front porch is like a front space bringing together the essence of the whole site (context). The lake harbors many aquatic life forms or a colony of ducks, flamingos or swans. The porch ushers many animals to bathe in the water and savor the moments. It also focuses on reconnecting people to these species without causing disturbances. A vista brimming with native plants and vegetation enhances the lake-shore. 8
PLUGGED TRAIL The particular design is a long promenade that extends into the grasslands to engage and attract different species. This agile landscape is occupied by flowering meadows. The infrastructures are air-borne pods that host many bird ecosystems due to no available trees. It acts as an artificial ecosystem in the patch for sheltering particularly various breeds of birds. 9
SOCIAL TRAJECTORIES Abstract Conceptual Mapping Monsoon 2020 Mapping and Visualization Location : Ahmedabad, India Guided By : Prof. Rajiv Kadam
23.052722 °N, 72.5325671 °E
SOCIAL TRAJECTORIES is a project that looks at the everyday life and events as manifested in a neighborhood level existing urban space. It maps the various patterns of activity conducted by humans and animals in a space. The attempt is to answer the questions relating the loss of quality and character in current urban spaces as they fail to respond to the socio - economic life of a community as they are purely reduced to quantitative measures of urban realm. The rationale behind this project is to identify these various patterns emerging on the relation between physical infrastructure and social aspects of the city. The spatial and temporal complexity inherent in urban growth requires a new bottom-up approach, which should be inclusive and process-oriented and have a strong interpretive element. The project is formulated on the idea of ‘Social Friction’ that the cost of engaging in one’s behavior rather than another, and of moving among different types of behavioral patterns, also the connection amongst individuals- social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arises from it. The term ‘Social Friction’ invented by Richard Sennette explains the interaction between different groups of people who would otherwise not meet. These interactions generally happen to follow a path moving under the action of given intangible forces. SOCIAL TRAJECTORIES is a project which embodies conceptual mapping as a tool to understand the dynamics of effect of form on human behaviors and emotions. Interested in the interplay between the two phenomena, the project explores a framework towards a man-environment correspondence in the realm of residential neighborhood blended with commercial activity - Gurukul Road. The project provides multiple opportunities for establishing socialized engagement within the existing domains through spatial and temporal processes accompanied by a sense of integration, inclusivity and social belonging.
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IDENTITY OF A PLACE
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Informal Street Vending
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SOCIABILITY Playing
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SOCIABILITY Praying - Religious Activity
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MODERNIZATION Change In Land Use
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IDENTITY OF A PLACE Informal Street Vending
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SOCIABILITY Playing 13
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IDENTITY OF A PLACE Informal Street Vending
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SOCIABILITY Playing
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SOCIAL TRAJECTORIES The project embodies conceptual mapping as a tool to understand the dynamics of effect of form on human behaviors and emotions. Interested in the interplay between the two phenomena, the project explores a framework towards a man-environment correspondence in the realm of residential neighborhood blended with commercial activity - Gurukul Road. The intent is to challenge how such patterns can be applied with the negotiable in a space. The project provides multiple opportunities for establishing socialized engagement within the existing domains through spatial and temporal processes accompanied by a sense of integration, inclusivity and social belonging. 15
MASKED City Mapping Spring 2020 Visualization and Communication Location : Ahmedabad, India Guided By : Dhara Mittal + Nishant Mittal
23.015888 °N, 72.59764 °E
The project explores the relationship of water with the city through the lens of urban lakes. Urban Lakes have been deteriorating over the past so many years without any proper attention to the water bodies present in the city. Lakes are vital as ecosystems in providing environmental, social, psychological and economic services. MASKED is the idea of elucidating the present circumstances of such lakes in urban environments amidst the built. The design starts by seeing what constitutes a ‘lake’ or how we defіne a lake. Lake isn’t just a water body or a depression in land holding water but it holds much more deeper meaning than it. We collected defіnitions of various entities and sources that have defіned lakes. Amongst these are NLCP, MoEF, MoHUA which are all government bodies. Then sources like down to earth, UNESCO and WMO and a book called hydrology of lakes. Other categories we chose were geologists, limnologists and Charles Elton (founder of ecology). The next category being different dictionary defnitions like Cambridge, Encyclopedia and Wikipedia. Lastly, we took into account how AMC and AUDA defіne lakes. AMC at present includes 200 lakes in its master plan. The city in the past settled around the water bodies and identifіed the importance of lakes. Once the urbanization started growing rapidly the lake started disappearing. This was because of many reasons such as water scarcity over the years, illegal encroachments, TP Schemes by AMC (because they don’t consider lake as a water body but a piece of land), Agriculture land and green cover. However, to our surprise we found the defіnitions of AMC including most if not all the lakes.
WHAT IS AN URBAN LAKE? 18
LAKES OF AHMEDABAD 19
CHANGING DYNAMICS OF LAKES 20
MATRIX : PRESENT CONDITIONS OF 50 LAKES BASED ON PAST FACTORS OVER A PERIOD OF 20 YEARS 21
PAUSED Social Interaction and Speculative Design Monsoon 2020 Social Productions of Space Location : Ahmedabad, India Guided By : Prof. Rajiv Kadam
23.073628 °N, 72.574003 °E
Social interaction is a dimension of community sustainability spanning neighborliness, social networks within the neighborhood, relationships with friends and walking activities social interaction is a basic building block of social interactions that inspires positive levels of belongingness via the community context of interaction. It has been argued that ‘design should as far as possible be used to encourage high levels of social interaction’. The project PAUSED deals with the relation between an individual’s emotions and its connection with the physical environment. Indian context is profuse by personal and public encounters and hence it should be paused and thoroughly enjoyed. The transformation of public spaces into private occupancies is what is aimed at where the space is used by different species and is occupied by the diversity in an harmonious nature. These spaces then become inclusive in terms of providing benefіts to society so people use maximum of it. Moreover, different people have different needs, and different people will use the space depending on the season and time of day. The less structured the space, the more likely it will adapt itself to the needs of the users at any particular moment. The speculative intervention for a contemporary urban space and interactive edge was attempted to provide opportunities for exploration of human and animal based activities. A community place where all communities irrespective of any discrimination be ‘humanizing’. People’s links to community — interactions with family, neighbors and friends — brings a lasting contentment and even happiness. Paused moments of pleasure and joy can be experienced in the daily encounters on the streets, in parks and in other public spaces. It helps people connect internally rather than with the central space and gives a sense of ‘publicness’ within their private domains.
EXISTING NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN
PROPOSED NEIGHBORHO
Total Area : 95,854 .7 m2 Central Ground Area : 7201.49 m2 24
OOD PLAN Open space (Ground) Built-Up Area (Ground) Total Built-Up Area Built / Open Building Heights FSI Population Density
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65,106 m2
65,146.68 m2
30,738.37 m2
30,707.32 m2
92,215.11 m2
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31% - 69%
28% - 72%
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349.47 people/ha
1330.37 people/ha
01 Vision and Integration 02 Robustness and Efficiency 03 Vitality and vibrancy 04 Complexity and variety 05 Personalization 06 Visual order 07 Enclosure and Accessibility 08 Permeability and legibility 09 Appropriateness and Safety 10 Incrementality 11 Sensitivity to existing context 12 Cohesiveness
MASTER PLAN The Master Plan looks at place, human scale, built environments (horizontal and vertical), mixed and compatible uses, and to public, semi - public, semi-private and private spaces, building exteriors and the interface between public and private spaces. It focuses on creation and promotion of centers—areas and conditions where people experience meaningful events in their daily lives (vitality, vibrancy). The design was aimed to create appropriate public spaces, including streets, streetscapes, formal public spaces, informal public spaces and ‘forgotten’ dead spaces.
Total Area : 95,854 .7 m2 Central Ground Area : 7201.49 m2 Area of each block: 249.8 m2 No of blocks: 92 No of units in each block on one floor: 4
Integration of realms with people which reflects mutual dependencies whilst contributing towards a sense of community and connection with the place. The natural environment was considered to preserve and integrate the natural setting with the built environment.
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VOLUMETRIC EXPLORATION The Block contain 4 apartments (250 m2 area) and are placed in a definite set of orientation which enhances more accessibility and movements within the transitional spaces giving each and every person the freedom of interactivity. To encourage more walk-ability within the site, there are only 2 vehicular roads passing through the central space connecting the extreme sides of the sides and all other streets are pedestrianized. If people learned that walking can be pleasurable with the opportunity to enjoy many sights as one walks and without stumbling into motorbikes and cars parked on the sidewalk — people would walk more and thus congestion, pollution and traffяc injuries would all decline. House Plots Semi-Private Semi-Public Community space Parking Vehicular road Pedestrian road Upper Walkway
Moreover, there is diversity and appropriate mixing of land uses (residential, commercial and mix use) to create lively places and at walkable distances to maintain healthy life. Different people have different needs, and different people will use the space depending on the season and time of day. The less structured the space, the more likely it will adapt itself to the needs of the users at any particular moment. The upper walkway connects the public realm on all the residential blocks at 5th floor (15 m). It helps people connect internally rather than with the central space and gives a sense of ‘publicness’ within their private domains.
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Religious Activity Commercial Shops Forest Trail Exercise spot Open Plaza Chabutra Colonnade Food Court Basketball Court Stepped Vegetation Water Body Inclined Pergola Cycle Track Community Center Open Amphitheater Informal Market Library Playground Undulating Mounds
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ISOMETRIC PROJECTION The issues with the current socio-behavioral patterns were addressed by adapting different strategies : more possibilities for walking (room, street layout, interesting facades, freedom from major obstacles, and good surfaces), having an attractive edge for standing/staying (the “edge effect”, where there are small pergolas within the facade), defяned activity spots, and resting spaces, sitting (including benches, low walls, statues, and so on). Other major parameter was the ability to see into the distance and view unhindered by buildings or other obstructions into the central space, and lighting, ability to hear and talk peacefully while maintaining low noise level, and benches or seating arranged such that people can easily sit in different arrangements that facilitate conversation, more room for play and other activities supported by physical activities including exercise and play; space for entertainment, both day and night, and in different times of the year. Simultaneously maintaining the aesthetic quality and positive sense experiences with good design and detailing, views and vistas; and inclusion of trees, plants and water. 29
URBAN RENOVATIONS Urban Strategies to regenerate Urban Public Space Monsoon 2018 Acupuncture Interventions in the Queen’s tomb of the Old city Location : Ahmedabad, India Guided By : Victor Cano Ciborro + Mansi Shah
23.0236939 °N, 72.5886118 °E
The project URBAN RENOVATIONS puts forth pedagogy that draws upon complexities of an extremely contested urban area in Ahmedabad: Bhadra Fort Precincts. It is a place where several local forces and top-down control together manifest in a myriad of unplanned actions and differing interests on the ground making it one of the most volatile public spaces. In regulating these, the everyday confrontations have further made visible the rebel actions. For this purpose, Queen’s Tomb is a perfect starting point for deconstructing the different conditions, underlying assumptions, and how and why these rebel actions reproduce in space. To comprehend this extremely heterogeneous and contested territory the methodology employs observing, listening and cartographing the space and its historic layers from an ethnographic viewpoint. It develops a particular language of visualization that builds sensitivity while recording the unseen processes. Non-compliant individuals and communities who claim their own identities, aesthetics, and patterns of behaviors through radical spatial practices that emerge as counter narratives and counter spatiality, giving shape to the REBEL CITIES. The design deliberations react to the context and values instead of being resistant to it and begin to represent processes; relations’ people hold to the site as fundamental organizing principles. The designed project intervenes through small surgical interventions to resolve these challenges related to space. Therefore the purpose of the design is to build spaces that are lively and vigorous which create moments of interaction of different users making the place healthier. URBAN RENOVATIONS visualizes different ways in which ‘Otla’ as a prominent element is shared in the space.
SKETCHES SHOWING DIFFERENT USES OF SPACE 32
AXONOMETRIC OF PROPOSAL 33
FABRICATED STREETS Post - Covid Public Streets Spring 2021 (Ongoing Project) Visualization and Communication Location : Sarkhej-Gandhinagar Highway, India Guided By : Vrushti Mawani + Mariana Paisana
23.051232 °N, 72.517727 °E
Post-COVID public space governance has suddenly, unforeseeably, and disproportionately impacted populations already vulnerable as a result of occupation, class, migration status, religion, gender, and other factors that rely on urban public spaces for their basic needs. In particular, mandates on social distancing have meant the exclusion of vulnerable groups from using streets for their basic needs. Restrictions on the use of public space and physical distancing have been key policy measures to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 and protect public health. The pandemic seems to have disrupted the pillars of cities and rearranging the services and uses of space. The SG Highway once known for its active street life now appears ghostly as the city dwellers stay at home. FABRICATED STREETS is an on-going project that aims to look at various perceptions and meanings attached to streets and their use by vendors groups on site. The project also challenges the mandates for physical distancing and hygiene standards to influence the way it is designed. It portrays the epicenter of such urban spaces that focus on developing spaces for the vendors in all time and explores the relationship of public and bottom-up processes that thematically house various spatial reforms in an urban setting. SG Highway although seen as a transit has now transformed into a hub for attracting vending activities along with commercial development along the stretch. The provocation is to understand the dynamics of myriad ways in which public space is occupied, governed, experienced and needed for various day-to-day livelihood. The project focuses on one stretch of highway where one can fяnd spectacular juxtapositions of traces of major dynamics of urban transformation.
STRUGGLE FOR SPACE 36
VENDING TRACES 37
MUTATING REALMS Concept of ‘Mass-Housing’ across Space and Time Spring 2019 Social Productions of Space Location : Surat, India Guided By : Imran Mansuri + Suraj Kathe
21.1670319 °N, 72.8231611 °E
MUTATING REALMS looks at the concept of ‘mass-housing’ across space and time. The evolution of housing settlements through linking and stacking. The project creates an adaptive habitat for the migrant communities associated with a very dynamic interactive live-work environment. It explores the ensemble in response to the adjacent traditional urban fabric where each space is mutated over to achieve their own characteristics, and providing the occupants the opportunity to morph these spaces into their needs and patterns. The project analyses the units and issues pertaining to the site and the typical cluster formations and communal spaces based on social communities that facilitates social interactions between these groups. Critical characteristics of the project recognises this system of interactions as a positive response to design housing for the migrants. Permeable boundaries, spatial adjacencies of different functions are worked upon to establish activity and safe flows. The process carried out was to document the respective community spaces or spaces associated with socio-cultural / economic activities. The housing is mutated to form such clusters on the given patch of land for 2, 4 and 6 person families by understanding the communities and the negotiations between the various factors. The design aims to achieve the balance between such flexible spaces that one can morph into while providing a set of defіned systems in place for numerous gatherings and celebrations. The project dispenses incremental spaces that have the ability to morph and expand in the future years.
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The migrant community in the Mann darwaja has been residing there for the past four generations. Their natives are Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat. The community is predominantly Marathi-Muslim. Each collaborator acts as a particular inhabitant, adds to a composition of a design. The aim of the project was to propose an variant of how the built and unbuilt spaces can sustain a progression of events and activities over time.
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STOP AND GO Urban Inserts Monsoon 2019 Making a Shared Space Location : Vadodara, India Guided By : Mihir Bedekar
23.0254319 °N, 72.5815873 °E
The project aim is to design an insert that will encourage people to utilize the public transport and facilitate the everyday activities of the locals. The reality of Indian cities is such that they are growing at a rapid pace with three processes happening simultaneously, Fіrstly Distress migration, secondly unmitigated real estate growth which is majorly chaotic and third, a general sense of apathy within the administration and the public. Vadodara is a fast growing city with the commute has become an integral part of the day to day routine. The design consists of driving the bus into a separate lane by change in the divider position. The bus takes a slight turn and diverts from its original lane where the rest of the traffіc remains undisturbed. The bus then stops by the stop and then with a gradual slope merges back into the traffіc. The form is derived by the urban strategy of positioning the bus stops in the center of the street. So, instead of having two different islands (modules), a connection is established between two sides of the road for the ease of pedestrian movement. STOP AND GO furnishes an interchange hub of different modes of transport. It seeks to improve the waiting environment which benefіts both the commuters and the immediate urban realm. The design adds value to the corresponding attributes.
BASE PLAN The design consists of driving the bus into a separate lane by change in the divider position. The bus takes a slight turn and diverts from its original lane where the rest of the traffic remains undisturbed. This turning radius is 40 ft. for a 9.3 m bus (minimum 21.5 ft.) at an angle of 30˚. The bus then stops by the stop and then with a gradual slope merges back into the traffіc. 46
FINAL MODEL IMAGES
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LOST NARRATIVES Documentation of Majuli Island, Assam Monsoon 2017 Documentation Location : Majuli Island, India Guided By : Subhashish Borah + Neelakshi Mour
26.9863605 °N, 94.1868388 °E
The project LOST NARRATIVES proposes a study of the biggest river island Majuli, which is located between the colossal and mythical male river Brahmaputra in Assam. Majuli is purely a region of fluvial geomorphology. The island of Majuli houses a total of 243 small and large villages. The understanding of the systems of this natural phenomenon by the local people is complete and exhibited in the local knowledge systems, the nomenclature of each natural component of the landscape has evolved over a. period of time. But unfortunately, Majuli is shrinking and the aim was to document the intense life of the people. The primary objective was to expose the concept of ‘Rurban’ where the island was explored through a transitional lens between the urban and rural setting of human settlement with very limited opportunity of urban setting. Between the juxtaposition of natural environment and human environment, the human settlement and cultural landscape of Majuli became the two most imperative elements of urbanity. We adopted a methodology of cultural and physical mapping to document the island in respect to urban design in a Rurban setting. Majuli is a multiethnic society, yet it is culturally homogeneous. LOST NARRATIVES is an attempt to compile the narratives of locals and their experiences living in such a beautiful place.
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MAJULI ISLAND We adopted a methodology of cultural and physical mapping to document the island in respect to urban design in a Rurban setting. Majuli is a multiethnic society, yet it is culturally homogeneous. LOST NARRATIVES is an attempt to compile the narratives of locals and their experiences living in such a beautiful place.
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// Lagom The concept is derived from Sweden which means ‘just the right amount’, not too much and not too little - the ideal balance. A balance between needs and wants. The concept in accordance with my work speaks about the balance we try to achieve in our lives. Deeply trapped in the era that is constantly changing, urban design for me is the balance between complexity and contradiction of underlying forces in an urban setting. Growth is inevitable, but the equilibrium between bottom-up and top-down is what hosts different social, cultural, political and economic interests. So instead of questioning whether it is a myth or a reality, one should question the legibility of urban systems with the quality of life.
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