Vinit Mukhija
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1521528 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Vinit Mukhija |
| PRENOMES | Vinit |
| SOBRENOME | Mukhija |
| ASSINATURA | MUKHIJA V |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9664-2846 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 155 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
From precarious tenure to new urban possibilities in manufactured housing communities
Global South scholars emphasize the importance of informal settlements in the urban lives of disadvantaged residents. In a similar vein, scholars in the Global North highlight the significance and potential of manufactured homes and manufactured housing communities to provide affordable housing. Although manufactured housing communities and informal housing settlements differ in many ways, they share a history of being ignored as crucial avenues …
Enhancing Sharing Capabilities
The global COVID-19 pandemic has led households to find creative ways to share resources to address isolation, stress, and anxiety. We build on these social experiments to suggest that sharing in housing and neighborhoods can lead to better mental health and wellbeing. The capabilities approach, popularized by philosophers Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, provides a theoretical perspective for integrating sharing options into housing and neighbor…
Promotores for Parks? The Potential of a Public Health Model to Improve Outreach and Community Engagement in Park Planning
Underprivileged urban communities often have less parks than wealthier communities. Even when new parks are built and are physically accessible to such communities, park design and programming is often undertaken without community input and may result in psychologically inaccessible parks. To address this problem, the California Department of Parks and Recreation piloted a community outreach intervention in a newly created Los Angeles park. It em…
Remaking the American Dream
The redefinition of the single-family house, the urban landscape, and the American Dream. Sitting squarely at the center of the American Dream, the detached single-family home has long been the basic building block of most US cities. In Remaking the American Dream, Vinit Mukhija considers how this is changing, in both the American psyche and the urban landscape. In defiance of long-held norms and standards, single-family housing is slowly but sig…
Promoting justice for underserved groups in periurban parks
The documented under-representation of ethnoracial minority population in peri-urban parks can be considered an environmental justice issue. This exploratory qualitative study examined the outreach efforts and challenges faced by a large state parks agency in attracting underserved and under-represented visitors from low-income and ethnoracial minority groups to its parks. It also explored if and under what conditions partnerships between the pub…
Converting Garages into Housing
Cities have a large supply of garages that could be converted into affordable housing in single-family neighborhoods, but minimum parking requirements prevent converting most of these garages into apartments. We examine how cities can relax off-street parking requirements for houses with converted garages. In Residential Parking Permit Districts, cities can limit the number of on-street parking permits allowed at any address with a second unit. T…
The Tradeoffs of Inclusionary Zoning
Inclusionary zoning (IZ), a controversial planning tool for supplying affordable housing, grew significantly during the 2000s' housing boom in the USA. We review the resultant scholarly literature on IZ. Our key reading is that IZ can include both tradeoffs and practical efforts to address them. There is also a need for additional research. More specifically, we find that IZ programs (i) have many components and vary considerably; (ii) can increa…
Reading the Informal City
Although informality is typically associated with developing countries, this article argues that informal activities are an integral part of U.S. cities and should be addressed in planning curricula. It focuses on planning education and suggests a possible course, which includes a seminar covering academic literature on informality in both developing and developed countries, and fieldwork-based, case study research by students. It also suggests t…
Learning from Invisible Cities
Just over forty years ago, Italo Calvino's masterpiece Invisible Cities was published in English. In the book, through a series of prose poems, Marco Polo describes the cities he has explored to Kublai Khan. Invisible Cities has been noticeably influential in urban studies. This paper examines the well-known playfulness, fabulism, randomness, and disorder as well as the often less acknowledged structure and order in this classic. It suggests that…
The Informal American City
An examination of informal urban activities—including street vending, garage sales, and unpermitted housing—that explores their complexity and addresses related planning and regulatory issues. Every day in American cities street vendors spread out their wares on sidewalks, food trucks serve lunch from the curb, and homeowners hold sales in their front yards—examples of the wide range of informal activities that take place largely beyond the reach…
Informal American City
Reluctant Cities, Colonias and Municipal Underbounding in the US
Scholars typically study affluent neighbourhoods resisting annexation by poorer adjacent cities. This paper focuses on the mirror image of this problem: municipal underbounding—the unwillingness of cities to annex poor neighbouring areas. In the paper, such local governments are called reluctant cities and it is suggested that urban studies scholars need to reach a better understanding of the practice. Here, a seemingly counter-intuitive case fro…
N of One plus Some
Case study researchers choose between single and multiple case research approaches. The literature recommends single cases for gaining in-depth understanding and multiple cases for acquiring broader understanding. This article presents the unconventional approach of a primary case informed by multiple secondary cases. It suggests that focusing on one case while following some additional secondary cases may, paradoxically and under certain conditi…
Can Inclusionary Zoning Be an Effective and Efficient Housing Policy? Evidence from Los Angeles and Orange Counties
Inclusionary zoning—requiring and encouraging developers to build some affordable housing in market-rate projects—is a growing but deeply contested practice. We evaluate the experience of inclusionary zoning programs in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, including their structure and elements, effectiveness in delivering affordable housing, and effect on housing markets and supply, to address the debate. We find that the programs vary but are not h…
What's in a Name? A Critique of 'Colonias' in the United States
Colonias' in the United States are a relatively recent phenomenon for planning practitioners and scholars. Most of the focus of policy and literature has been on the unregulated, substandard settlements in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. Past studies of colonias in the three states have criticized policy efficacy and questioned whether colonias are appropriately or adequately defined. Our objective in this essay is complementary. We draw from the …
Challenges for international development planning
Property Readjustment and a Tenants' Cooperative in Mumbai
A key virtue of urbanization is the possibility of using the market value of land to pay for its development costs. Many urban-redevelopment strategies, such as urban renewal, land readjustment, and land sharing, are based on this principle. Mumbai's tenement, or chawl, redevelopment programme is also a variation on the theme. The key promise of the programme is the resettlement of tenement residents in new, cross-subsidized housing on the origin…
Collective Action and Property Rights
The focus of this essay is success in collective action. It is based on a critical review and synthesis of the literature on collective action and property rights. I make three key arguments in the essay. First, contrary to the narrow conventional wisdom, self‐interested behavior can lead to successful collective action in both commonly managed resources and open‐access situations. The literature documents and explains a number of examples of suc…
How is housing financed
This paper explores how the construction of housing for lower-middle-class groups is financed in developing countries. Although it focuses on a single case study from Mumbai (previously Bombay), the case suggests that the conventional policy focus on mortgage finance for individual consumers may be insufficient, and that policy makers should also consider the problem of development finance for housing producers, including consumer cooperatives. S…
The Contradictions in Enabling Private Developers of Affordable Housing
Through a case study of a private developer of housing in India, this paper critically examines the policy advice of enabling markets and market-based actors to provide affordable housing in developing countries. In this case, after receiving public sector help, the developer stopped constructing housing for low-income groups. The paper argues for a more cautious, circumspect and varied approach because enabling strategies focused on market actor…
New houses for old in Mumbai
This paper analyses the evolution of Mumbai's unorthodox strategy of demolishing existing slums and resettling slum-dwellers in new, cross-subsidised, on-site housing. The strategy is facilitated by government intervention in land development regulations. This paper argues that the strategy evolved in response to competitive electoral politics and high property values in the city. Secondly, although the strategy provides beneficiaries with an opp…
An analytical framework for urban upgrading
Institutional Pluralism and Housing Delivery
Enabling Slum Redevelopment in Mumbai
This paper examines the complexities involved in 'enabling' the provision of housing in developing countries. In conventional thinking the enabling strategy focuses on the ability of the private sector, specifically the 'markets', to deliver housing. Enabling has been promoted as consisting of, primarily, decentralisation, privatisation, deregulation and demand-driven development. The focus of the policy prescriptions is to reduce the 'damaging' …
Upgrading Housing Settlements in Developing Countries
Institutional Pluralism and Housing Delivery
Enabling Slum Redevelopment in Mumbai
This paper examines the complexities involved in 'enabling' the provision of housing in developing countries. In conventional thinking the enabling strategy focuses on the ability of the private sector, specifically the 'markets', to deliver housing. Enabling has been promoted as consisting of, primarily, decentralisation, privatisation, deregulation and demand-driven development. The focus of the policy prescriptions is to reduce the 'damaging' …
Can Inclusionary Zoning Be an Effective and Efficient Housing Policy? Evidence from Los Angeles and Orange Counties
Inclusionary zoning—requiring and encouraging developers to build some affordable housing in market-rate projects—is a growing but deeply contested practice. We evaluate the experience of inclusionary zoning programs in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, including their structure and elements, effectiveness in delivering affordable housing, and effect on housing markets and supply, to address the debate. We find that the programs vary but are not h…
Reading the Informal City
Although informality is typically associated with developing countries, this article argues that informal activities are an integral part of U.S. cities and should be addressed in planning curricula. It focuses on planning education and suggests a possible course, which includes a seminar covering academic literature on informality in both developing and developed countries, and fieldwork-based, case study research by students. It also suggests t…
Upgrading Housing Settlements in Developing Countries
The Contradictions in Enabling Private Developers of Affordable Housing
Through a case study of a private developer of housing in India, this paper critically examines the policy advice of enabling markets and market-based actors to provide affordable housing in developing countries. In this case, after receiving public sector help, the developer stopped constructing housing for low-income groups. The paper argues for a more cautious, circumspect and varied approach because enabling strategies focused on market actor…
An analytical framework for urban upgrading
Reluctant Cities, Colonias and Municipal Underbounding in the US
Scholars typically study affluent neighbourhoods resisting annexation by poorer adjacent cities. This paper focuses on the mirror image of this problem: municipal underbounding—the unwillingness of cities to annex poor neighbouring areas. In the paper, such local governments are called reluctant cities and it is suggested that urban studies scholars need to reach a better understanding of the practice. Here, a seemingly counter-intuitive case fro…
What's in a Name? A Critique of 'Colonias' in the United States
Colonias' in the United States are a relatively recent phenomenon for planning practitioners and scholars. Most of the focus of policy and literature has been on the unregulated, substandard settlements in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. Past studies of colonias in the three states have criticized policy efficacy and questioned whether colonias are appropriately or adequately defined. Our objective in this essay is complementary. We draw from the …
Converting Garages into Housing
Cities have a large supply of garages that could be converted into affordable housing in single-family neighborhoods, but minimum parking requirements prevent converting most of these garages into apartments. We examine how cities can relax off-street parking requirements for houses with converted garages. In Residential Parking Permit Districts, cities can limit the number of on-street parking permits allowed at any address with a second unit. T…
N of One plus Some
Case study researchers choose between single and multiple case research approaches. The literature recommends single cases for gaining in-depth understanding and multiple cases for acquiring broader understanding. This article presents the unconventional approach of a primary case informed by multiple secondary cases. It suggests that focusing on one case while following some additional secondary cases may, paradoxically and under certain conditi…
Property Readjustment and a Tenants' Cooperative in Mumbai
A key virtue of urbanization is the possibility of using the market value of land to pay for its development costs. Many urban-redevelopment strategies, such as urban renewal, land readjustment, and land sharing, are based on this principle. Mumbai's tenement, or chawl, redevelopment programme is also a variation on the theme. The key promise of the programme is the resettlement of tenement residents in new, cross-subsidized housing on the origin…
Collective Action and Property Rights
The focus of this essay is success in collective action. It is based on a critical review and synthesis of the literature on collective action and property rights. I make three key arguments in the essay. First, contrary to the narrow conventional wisdom, self‐interested behavior can lead to successful collective action in both commonly managed resources and open‐access situations. The literature documents and explains a number of examples of suc…
How is housing financed
This paper explores how the construction of housing for lower-middle-class groups is financed in developing countries. Although it focuses on a single case study from Mumbai (previously Bombay), the case suggests that the conventional policy focus on mortgage finance for individual consumers may be insufficient, and that policy makers should also consider the problem of development finance for housing producers, including consumer cooperatives. S…
Promoting justice for underserved groups in periurban parks
The documented under-representation of ethnoracial minority population in peri-urban parks can be considered an environmental justice issue. This exploratory qualitative study examined the outreach efforts and challenges faced by a large state parks agency in attracting underserved and under-represented visitors from low-income and ethnoracial minority groups to its parks. It also explored if and under what conditions partnerships between the pub…
Challenges for international development planning
New houses for old in Mumbai
This paper analyses the evolution of Mumbai's unorthodox strategy of demolishing existing slums and resettling slum-dwellers in new, cross-subsidised, on-site housing. The strategy is facilitated by government intervention in land development regulations. This paper argues that the strategy evolved in response to competitive electoral politics and high property values in the city. Secondly, although the strategy provides beneficiaries with an opp…
Institutional Pluralism and Housing Delivery
Enabling Slum Redevelopment in Mumbai
This paper examines the complexities involved in 'enabling' the provision of housing in developing countries. In conventional thinking the enabling strategy focuses on the ability of the private sector, specifically the 'markets', to deliver housing. Enabling has been promoted as consisting of, primarily, decentralisation, privatisation, deregulation and demand-driven development. The focus of the policy prescriptions is to reduce the 'damaging' …
Upgrading Housing Settlements in Developing Countries
New houses for old in Mumbai
This paper analyses the evolution of Mumbai's unorthodox strategy of demolishing existing slums and resettling slum-dwellers in new, cross-subsidised, on-site housing. The strategy is facilitated by government intervention in land development regulations. This paper argues that the strategy evolved in response to competitive electoral politics and high property values in the city. Secondly, although the strategy provides beneficiaries with an opp…
An analytical framework for urban upgrading
How is housing financed
This paper explores how the construction of housing for lower-middle-class groups is financed in developing countries. Although it focuses on a single case study from Mumbai (previously Bombay), the case suggests that the conventional policy focus on mortgage finance for individual consumers may be insufficient, and that policy makers should also consider the problem of development finance for housing producers, including consumer cooperatives. S…
The Contradictions in Enabling Private Developers of Affordable Housing
Through a case study of a private developer of housing in India, this paper critically examines the policy advice of enabling markets and market-based actors to provide affordable housing in developing countries. In this case, after receiving public sector help, the developer stopped constructing housing for low-income groups. The paper argues for a more cautious, circumspect and varied approach because enabling strategies focused on market actor…
Collective Action and Property Rights
The focus of this essay is success in collective action. It is based on a critical review and synthesis of the literature on collective action and property rights. I make three key arguments in the essay. First, contrary to the narrow conventional wisdom, self‐interested behavior can lead to successful collective action in both commonly managed resources and open‐access situations. The literature documents and explains a number of examples of suc…
Challenges for international development planning
Property Readjustment and a Tenants' Cooperative in Mumbai
A key virtue of urbanization is the possibility of using the market value of land to pay for its development costs. Many urban-redevelopment strategies, such as urban renewal, land readjustment, and land sharing, are based on this principle. Mumbai's tenement, or chawl, redevelopment programme is also a variation on the theme. The key promise of the programme is the resettlement of tenement residents in new, cross-subsidized housing on the origin…
What's in a Name? A Critique of 'Colonias' in the United States
Colonias' in the United States are a relatively recent phenomenon for planning practitioners and scholars. Most of the focus of policy and literature has been on the unregulated, substandard settlements in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. Past studies of colonias in the three states have criticized policy efficacy and questioned whether colonias are appropriately or adequately defined. Our objective in this essay is complementary. We draw from the …
N of One plus Some
Case study researchers choose between single and multiple case research approaches. The literature recommends single cases for gaining in-depth understanding and multiple cases for acquiring broader understanding. This article presents the unconventional approach of a primary case informed by multiple secondary cases. It suggests that focusing on one case while following some additional secondary cases may, paradoxically and under certain conditi…
Can Inclusionary Zoning Be an Effective and Efficient Housing Policy? Evidence from Los Angeles and Orange Counties
Inclusionary zoning—requiring and encouraging developers to build some affordable housing in market-rate projects—is a growing but deeply contested practice. We evaluate the experience of inclusionary zoning programs in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, including their structure and elements, effectiveness in delivering affordable housing, and effect on housing markets and supply, to address the debate. We find that the programs vary but are not h…
Reluctant Cities, Colonias and Municipal Underbounding in the US
Scholars typically study affluent neighbourhoods resisting annexation by poorer adjacent cities. This paper focuses on the mirror image of this problem: municipal underbounding—the unwillingness of cities to annex poor neighbouring areas. In the paper, such local governments are called reluctant cities and it is suggested that urban studies scholars need to reach a better understanding of the practice. Here, a seemingly counter-intuitive case fro…
The Informal American City
An examination of informal urban activities—including street vending, garage sales, and unpermitted housing—that explores their complexity and addresses related planning and regulatory issues. Every day in American cities street vendors spread out their wares on sidewalks, food trucks serve lunch from the curb, and homeowners hold sales in their front yards—examples of the wide range of informal activities that take place largely beyond the reach…
Informal American City
The Tradeoffs of Inclusionary Zoning
Inclusionary zoning (IZ), a controversial planning tool for supplying affordable housing, grew significantly during the 2000s' housing boom in the USA. We review the resultant scholarly literature on IZ. Our key reading is that IZ can include both tradeoffs and practical efforts to address them. There is also a need for additional research. More specifically, we find that IZ programs (i) have many components and vary considerably; (ii) can increa…
Reading the Informal City
Although informality is typically associated with developing countries, this article argues that informal activities are an integral part of U.S. cities and should be addressed in planning curricula. It focuses on planning education and suggests a possible course, which includes a seminar covering academic literature on informality in both developing and developed countries, and fieldwork-based, case study research by students. It also suggests t…
Learning from Invisible Cities
Just over forty years ago, Italo Calvino's masterpiece Invisible Cities was published in English. In the book, through a series of prose poems, Marco Polo describes the cities he has explored to Kublai Khan. Invisible Cities has been noticeably influential in urban studies. This paper examines the well-known playfulness, fabulism, randomness, and disorder as well as the often less acknowledged structure and order in this classic. It suggests that…
Converting Garages into Housing
Cities have a large supply of garages that could be converted into affordable housing in single-family neighborhoods, but minimum parking requirements prevent converting most of these garages into apartments. We examine how cities can relax off-street parking requirements for houses with converted garages. In Residential Parking Permit Districts, cities can limit the number of on-street parking permits allowed at any address with a second unit. T…
Promoting justice for underserved groups in periurban parks
The documented under-representation of ethnoracial minority population in peri-urban parks can be considered an environmental justice issue. This exploratory qualitative study examined the outreach efforts and challenges faced by a large state parks agency in attracting underserved and under-represented visitors from low-income and ethnoracial minority groups to its parks. It also explored if and under what conditions partnerships between the pub…
Remaking the American Dream
The redefinition of the single-family house, the urban landscape, and the American Dream. Sitting squarely at the center of the American Dream, the detached single-family home has long been the basic building block of most US cities. In Remaking the American Dream, Vinit Mukhija considers how this is changing, in both the American psyche and the urban landscape. In defiance of long-held norms and standards, single-family housing is slowly but sig…
Enhancing Sharing Capabilities
The global COVID-19 pandemic has led households to find creative ways to share resources to address isolation, stress, and anxiety. We build on these social experiments to suggest that sharing in housing and neighborhoods can lead to better mental health and wellbeing. The capabilities approach, popularized by philosophers Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, provides a theoretical perspective for integrating sharing options into housing and neighbor…
Promotores for Parks? The Potential of a Public Health Model to Improve Outreach and Community Engagement in Park Planning
Underprivileged urban communities often have less parks than wealthier communities. Even when new parks are built and are physically accessible to such communities, park design and programming is often undertaken without community input and may result in psychologically inaccessible parks. To address this problem, the California Department of Parks and Recreation piloted a community outreach intervention in a newly created Los Angeles park. It em…
From precarious tenure to new urban possibilities in manufactured housing communities
Global South scholars emphasize the importance of informal settlements in the urban lives of disadvantaged residents. In a similar vein, scholars in the Global North highlight the significance and potential of manufactured homes and manufactured housing communities to provide affordable housing. Although manufactured housing communities and informal housing settlements differ in many ways, they share a history of being ignored as crucial avenues …
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