Loose Fit City

Drawn from a lifetime's experience of shared city-making from the bottom up, within rapidly expanding urban metabolisms in Delhi, Mumbai, Agra, Kathmandu, West Africa and London, Loose Fit City is about the ways in which city residents can learn through making to engage with the dynamic process of creating their own city.

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Maurice Mitchell, author of The Lemonade Stand and Learning from Delhi, practised in the slums of Ghana and Sudan, and as both architect and carpenter, upgraded the Victorian slums of south London. Since 2000, he has sought to unlock the huge physical and cultural reserve trapped within informal urban settlements in Kosovo, India, Sierra Leone and Nepal.

Bo Tang, co-editor of Learning from Delhi and The Architecture of three Freetown Neighbourhoods, is a senior research fellow and lecturer in the Architecture of Rapid Change and Scarce Resources. Her research is focused on collaborative live projects and making as a catalyst for civic engagement and social change.

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Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations and Credits
00 Introduction
Part One: Context
01 The Idea of Loose Fit
02 Dimension and Fit
03 The Remoteness of Mass Production and Planning
Part Two: Practice
04 Exploring Loose Fit Within the City: Survey and Intent
Architect as Detective and Storyteller
05 Fabricating Within the City: Process and Product
Architect as Maker
Part Three: Timely City-Making
06 Form, Familiarity, Fit, Urban Order and the Human Horizon
07 Loose Fit City
Glossary
Bibliography
Index