TY - UNPB T1 - People’s Participation in Housing: Proposed Pilot Project Y1 - 1975 A1 - MN Ashish Ganju A1 - Gupta, Vinod A1 - Romi Khosla KW - housing KW - Mass Housing KW - Participatory AB -

Today mass housing has become synonymous with low cost housing and the entire national effort in this field has been diverted to producing a cheaper house. Yet the numbers involved are of such magnitude that any amount of cost reduction exercise can not provide the solution for housing everybody.

Traditionally the individual who has built his own house has been intricately involved in the whole process. This made it possible for this identity to be established in his environment. Today the pace of development has taken away this close tie between the individual and the creation of his own environment. Large numbers of people are “designed for” by centralised agencies. This can cause further alienation unless the centralised agency concentrates on understanding the new demands of the housing activity and makes the process responsive once again to the individual needs. The task is, therefore, to evolve design strategies which allow the individual to p-participate once again in the building process.

T3 - GREHA PB - Greha CY - Delhi, India J1 - Housing ID - AZ-CF-21725 ER -