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Waste not, want not in the £700m slum
Original article from the Observer, 2007. A 175-hectare maze of impenetrable dark alleys and corrugated shacks, Dharavi swarms with more than a million residents... If you have the patience to look...
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Sharp Players
See the full gallery on Posterous Scoping out Dharavi today for upcoming research, I came across a knife seller offering an assortment of new, secondhand and recycled knives and blades. His mobile...
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Drum Roll
See the full gallery on Posterous 44 gallon drums are manually upgraded at Dharavi for re-use on a large scale. I met with a sharply dressed businessman who has been in the the trade for two...
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Steal Deals
See the full gallery on Posterous Visiting Chor Bazaar (Thieves Market), I passed through an assortment of second-hand tool stalls dealing in drill bits, rimmers, grinding bits and so on. Their...
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Advertising Dharavi-Style
Prompted by Niti's earlier post on creative re-purpose by an Indian cobbler, I began to pay more attention to street-side shoe repairers and found an interesting example at Dharavi. Here we see old...
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