Outputs (3)

Dharavi an Urban Ecology of Recycling, Living and Working (2025)
Journal Article
Agarwal, V., Borsi, K., & Collett, T. (2025). Dharavi an Urban Ecology of Recycling, Living and Working. Athens Journal of Architecture, 11, 1-38. https://doi.org/10.30958/aja.X-Y-Z

This paper provides an in-depth typo-morphological analysis of Dharavi’s 13th Compound to expose the spatial specificity through which this socio-spatial ecology of living, working, and recycling is supported. It maps the process of recycling and pat... Read More about Dharavi an Urban Ecology of Recycling, Living and Working.

Designing for Well-Being in Large Housing Estates in East and West Berlin: Märkisches Viertel and Marzahn (2025)
Book Chapter
Borsi, K. (2025). Designing for Well-Being in Large Housing Estates in East and West Berlin: Märkisches Viertel and Marzahn. In I. Kuroishi (Ed.), Post-War Public Housing and Well-Being: Modernity, Economic Recovery, and Social Change (103-135). Routledge

The two large housing estates, Märkisches Viertel (1963–1974) in West Berlin and Marzahn (1977–1990) in East Berlin, exemplify the planning of neighbourhoods for ‘the good life.’ As flagship projects of their respective regimes, they were unprecedent... Read More about Designing for Well-Being in Large Housing Estates in East and West Berlin: Märkisches Viertel and Marzahn.

The Berlin Tenement and the City (2025)
Book
Borsi, K. (2025). The Berlin Tenement and the City. Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003367291

The Berlin Tenement and the City describes the development of the Berlin tenement from 1860 to 1914, showing how it became both Berlin’s standard housing type and its principal urban component – the city’s ubiquitous typology. In contrast to earlier... Read More about The Berlin Tenement and the City.