By the middle of this century, over 3 billion people will live in settlements typically called slums or referred to euphemistically as "informal". These unplanned, though often functionally integrated neighbourhoods are seen as the antithesis of the planned metropolis. But, as Echanove and Srivastava argue, the homegrown city is a fragile yet resilient part of an urban system, which has been dismissed and brutalised for too long. The Homegrown City is about how cities develop and evolve through the actions of those who use it. Echanove and Srivastava present this user-generated city, in...