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Kevin mccloud s man made home is a british television series, broadcast on channel 4. Kevin mccloud s travelled to the worlds biggest slum, dharavi in mumbai, and followed hot on the heels of slumdog millionaire, 2008s oscarwinning film set in the same shanty town focused on the extreme daytoday poverty endured by the local residents. To experience the good and bad of one of the biggest slums in asia, kevin mccloud goes to live there. Dont look down is a bbc 2 documentary television series written and presented by kevin mccloud which ran for six episodes beginning in may 2000 each episode is a documentary about the history of famous tall buildings in the united kingdom. This british family quit the rat race to live on a desert island 3 days away. Dec 07, 2019 but kevin mccloud s company insists it was not behind shoddy building.
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Users may download andor print one copy of any articles in. Store lesson planned a marketplace for teaching resources. He writes books and articles about decoration, design, lighting and colour, and is editoratlarge of grand designs magazine. Kevin was awarded two honorary doctorates, from plymouth and oxford brookes, primarily for getting rid of the capital a from architecture. An abridged version of kevin mccloud slumming in problems in dharavi mumbai. Slumming it in a radical departure from his usual designrelated shows, kevin mccloud heads to india as part of channel 4s indian winter season to sample life in the slums of. Kevin mcclouds travelled to the worlds biggest slum, dharavi in mumbai, and followed hot on the heels of slumdog millionaire, 2008s oscarwinning film set in the same shanty town focused on the extreme daytoday poverty endured by the local residents. Slumming it kevin mccloud discovers a world of curious juxtapositions in one of the most extreme urban environments on earth. Hes most wellknown for his architectural programs that have inspired homeowners to transform properties up and down the country. Having heard bigwig architects, planners and even prince charles claiming that dharavi has the answers to some of the biggest problems facing our western cities, kevin embarks on a journey to lift the.
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