The Homegrown City

Authors: Matias Echanove & Rahul Srivastava

India | City & town planning - architectural aspects | Urban communities | Urban economics | Human geography | Urban & municipal planning

Published on 13^th January 2026 by Verso Books in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 240 pages
152mm x 234mm x 17mm | 270g

Slums, informal settlements, and other unplanned habitats are seen as the antithesis of the metropolis. Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava, found­ers of the design practice urbz, explore how such neighbourhoods and their inhabitants have been unfairly dismissed when they should in fact be under-stood as partners in the story of cities and urban development.