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Class and housing aspiration

Difference and Urban Space
Sagar Gurav, 2019


There are many industrial sectors which help in running the economy of India, of which there are two major sectors which are Liquor and Real Estate. As pursuing architects our study revolves around this Real Estate sector and the architecture in it. Real Estate sector is developing rapidly over the last few years, is rapidly affecting the price of land. In a city like Mumbai the land prices here are increasing limitlessly which makes it harder for any average earning person to buy a house, but every habitat always aspires a house bigger than their present house ,however money(Income) restricts them to do so, being a resident of this city it has always affected(In terms of income) me and my family ,which developed my interest for this study.

Karl Marx in his book of ‘Theory of class struggle’ and also in a few of the article written about his theory, he has stratified class on the basis of occupation, this was one perspective, I also wanted to know the governments perspective on stratification of class. Through this literature review I developed a analytical framework which stratified people not only on the basis of their income but also on the basis of their present infrastructure, this helped me in my site study. The site study gave me a average housing aspiration per income category, through which I concluded that every household aspiration of an household of all economic classes is to fulfill the Need of an additional space in terms of a room that they presently do not have. This research tries look at affordable housing that allows for incrementality.




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