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Suburban Streets: Claims and Affordances - Riddhi Shah

Mobility and Publics
Riddhi Shah, 2022


Streets in India have traditionally been the public spaces around which social life has revolved. They constitute the urban public realm where people congregate, celebrate and interact. However, the social and physical imagination of the modern street has transformed in response to the new forms of efficiency  and control. Urban planners and designers desire for a clean and clear sanitised street with segregated paths for pedestrians, cyclists, motorists and vehicles, which has changed the experience of the street.

This thesis looks at how the spatiality of the street gets transformed when it lends itself to claims, negotiations and expression. It further analyses how these claims are formed and what these claims allow. To achieve this, three streets are compared for their affordances by way of studying their edge conditions and further, the negotiations, sense of security, livelihood, activities, diversity and the  networks they facilitate. The cases chosen for research are the streets of V.S. Khandekar Road and Gujarat Society Road, located at Vile Parle, and the Old Kabrastan Road located at Jogeshwari. These are representative of three types of streets in the suburbs of Mumbai. The first is a commercial street along the railway station and the residential area around, the second is a completely residential street and the third is a street along a self built neighbourhood. The study shows that while streets are considered as planned transit corridors they hold networks of care, kinship relationships, generate livelihood, become temporary homes, thus acting as public spaces, holding social life. Particular urban forms create affordances for these. The thesis shows that urban form with hard edges tends to have less affordances in comparison to edges that are blurred and corroded, that have the ability to hold multiple claims.


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Street affordance: a case in Amravati

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The politics of commons


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Upgrading roads: transforming edge affordances

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City undone: fragmenting the narrative

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Highway urbanization in Chiplun


Mobility and Publics
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(Inter-)active spaces


Mobility and Publics
Saloni Vora, 2020

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From the streets: behaviour and experience

Mobility and Publics
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Street as a carnival


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