Rushank Mehta was involved in the documentation of poor settlements in Ahmedabad city, and developing design solutions for housing, as part of the project ‘urban poverty reduction strategy in Ahmedabad’ for MHT. Following the inception report, a total 5% of the slums and chawls of the city were considered for details documentation and analysis. They were selected based on the location, population, house-types and land-ownership criteria. All physical infrastructure facilities including drainage, light, water, roads etc. along with functions of the built-forms was documented and map for each of them was prepared.