Idyllic summer Sundays

Wake up somewhere in between early and late; hang around making pancakes before going to buy loads of juicy oranges at the farmers' market. Settle in for a bit of motorcycle maintenance and random dithering around in the afternoon. Eat the ciabatta that I baked the previous day; decide that it's the best I've yet made. Drink mate. Go down to the harbor for a quick pre-dinner swim, encountering jellyfish and a stingray in the process. Sit on the beach for a while reading, then motorcycle back home and boast about the excellence of my day on the internet.

Speaking of boasting, Mammoth has posted another chunk of my MA. Go check it out - it's on Dharavi and the multiplicities of globalization.

The purpose of the DRP is to globalize Mumbai; to create the sorts of “internationally competitive” living spaces and commercial areas required by globally-mobile businesses and workers in the “knowledge economy”. But this program ignores Dharavi’s actually-existing ties to the broader urban and global economies. The slum houses a wide range of informal enterprises that are integrated into globally disaggregated assembly lines through subcontracting arrangements. While we tend to think of slums as a form of low-income housing, Dharavi’s economic role is at least as important. Its living spaces often double as informal and unregulated production spaces – like many slums, it is a “spontaneous” form of mixed-use design [13].