Claudio Acioly

“.....a must-read for policy makers and practitioners working in the field of housing and sustainable urbanisation.”

Jagan Shah

“.....offers a deeply informative range of insights and experiences on housing and urbanism.”

Floris Alkemade

“.....a must-read for architects, planners and policy makers who should use their powers of imagination to create social added value.”

Anita Patil-Deshmukh

“.....as a practitioner working with residents of informal settlements, this multi-layered book has helped generate significant strategic thinking.”

Jaime Correa

“.....offers ideas and propositions that cannot be left unexamined at a moment in which humanity is threatened by issues of over-population, climate change, and unbridled political struggles.”

Uday Amin

“ …. there is a strong resonance between the design of Alembic City and the vision of this book. Alembic City is a purposeful transformation of our iconic manufacturing plant, setup in 1908, into an urban district with multiple public spaces integrated with offices, homes and landscape - a walkable city with mixed uses, an urban destination with art, culture and entertainment hubs.”

Sam Hall Kaplan

".....collected in a well-organized, informative and illustrated text are 36 essays of actual case studies and real projects tackling inclusiveness in housing and public place. Though the perspective is worldwide, the focus is refreshingly local, with in-your-face and on-the-ground realities that affect a staggering nearly one billion people. Some varying solutions are, however, offered in a recently published and welcomed book, Affordable Housing, Inclusive Cities, edited by Vinayak Bharne & Shyam Khandekar."