Shirish B Patel

Shirish B Patel is a civil engineer and urban planner, and one of the three authors who suggested the idea of Navi Mumbai. He is co-author of 6 Metros, a comparative study of urban planning and implementation in London, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Delhi, and London.

Articles by Shirish B Patel

Urban

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September 4, 2024

What would it take for low-income urban housing to succeed?

Treating land as a market commodity has proven to be detrimental to urban housing for low-income groups. Could housing societies built on publicly owned land be the answer?

by Shirish B Patel | 6 min read