Tag: housing
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A typological study of slum settlements in Hyderabad
Exploring the Impact of Housing Quality and Settlement Form Typologies on Heat Vulnerability in the city’s informally built areas Heat and the city’s built environment intersect and interact at different scales. A granular understanding of built-environment conditions of informal settlements is required to inform interventions and policies. Current policy documents including the Hyderabad’s Heat Action…
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Modeling Heat Gain Scenarios in an Informal Settlement Using Volumetric, Material-specific Building Information
Abstract and executive summary Data, simulation and analysis around heating in urban areas, especially in the Global South and even more so their informal settlements, is not commensurate with concerns about the same. While remote sensing and simulated heat island effects give us some glimpses into potential heat gains in the broader urban fabric, fine-grained…
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Studying Heat in Informal Settlements: A Note on Methods
The Cool Infrastructures project aims to understand all the ways in which heat plays a role in people’s lives. In particular, the project asks how people who live in informal settlements, whose location on the “grid” is tenuous, deal with, adapt to, and conceive of heat. Questions and Data In order to start answering these…
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The City that Cannot Sleep: Heat in Low-income Neighbourhoods
People in Singareni Colony – partly an off-grid urban informal settlement and partly a VAMBAY housing colony in south-east Hyderabad – live in houses that feel like blazing ovens. Even getting some quality sleep becomes a far cry in the summer. Sandwiched between different kinds of heat-trapping material and walls of congested houses without ample…
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A Spatial History of Singareni Colony, Hyderabad.
Contributors: Rahul Mishra, Goutham Raj Konda, Tanaya Bhowal Walking into Singareni on a warm sunny day, the sight of children playing, women collecting water from the water tanker, streets filled with spilt water from the water tanker, haphazardly hanging electric wires, some parked two wheelers, clothes hanging outside for drying are just come scenes which…
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The Great Indian Kitchen: Narratives Around Cooking in Heat in Singareni Colony
Contributor: Anushree Gupta What is your idea of a conventional kitchen? The kitchen is an important aspect of every household. It makes a house complete. For me, I picture it as a place where the aroma of home-cooked meals blends with a homemaker’s effort to put the food on the table. A fairly small but…
