BOOK EXTRACT
AImperial Conversations: Indo-Britons and the Architecture of South India
Shanti Jayewardene-Pillai’s book unveils a complex and exciting design interface between indigenous engineers and architects and European soldier-engineers, responsive to the demands of Indo-British patrons.
IndiaUSP
Regulating Realtors
The changing urban profile is impacting the property market, as the buyer is apprehensive of the various lacunas in the transaction process, which needs to be regulated.
CITYWISE
Justice and Efficiency
Himanshu Burte & Malini Krishnankutty discuss issues of development and urbanism, where development means many things at many times!
INTRODUCTION
Deep Down Urbanism – Negotiating Urbanism
INITIATIVE
Who are we, the planners?
Young planners delineate responsibilities for their peers in the current globalised capitalist political-economic order.
PLANNING
Sealing, Demolition and the New Delhi Master Plan
Diya Mehra gives insight into the influences on Master Plans and the impact on the shape of the cities due to apathetic citizens.
Vision Bangalored!
Subbarayan Prasanna and Irina Mladenova give an assessment of urbanism and planning in Bangalore through a study of its Master Plan.
CENTURY CITY
Mumbai in a World of Cities
Andrew Harris says that Intellectuals focus on Mumbai but has this attention contributed to the future of its development?
EMERGING URBNAITIES
God’s own Urbanity!
Deepika Shetty attempts to analyse the Ratha Beedi and its living tradition, to understand the locus of new and emerging urbanities.
Bombay to Goa (and back)
Rahul Srivastava and Matias Echanove aver that Mumbai and Goa – interlinked, throw up new challenges about the nature of urbanism and urbanity.
A class apart…the rUrban Meltdown
For Ajay Nayak, the term “rUrban” which was a romantic theory has manifested itself into confused questions...
Globalisation: The case of a small town in India
For Leeta Mohanty, Bhubaneswar emerges as a city of medieval history with modernist planning principles under the influence of globalised economic cultures.
INTERFACE
Planning controls or Planning controlled?
Pooja Rastogi points out that Planning and Development related laws in India are more an afterthought. The need is to be proactive.
Informal in Formal
Saurabh Tewari sees order in the chaotic mushrooming of Dhabas next to BPOs/MNCs in Gurgaon.
LOCUS
The Heritage of Dirt
Kaiwan Mehta unearths the dirt to verify: What part of our everyday life do sweepers occupy?
DOCUMENTING CITIES
Beyond Histories
Clare Arni’s photo-documentary probes how Architecture is one of the sites where incidental changes start documenting the important transformations.
PEOPLE
Unurbanisation…the peoples’ process
Tapan Mittal-Deshpande highlights the current urbanisation paradigms and planning practices becoming inconsistent with prevailing growth and development patterns.
Role of Community in Urban Conservation
Dr. Longbin Zhu lays emphasis on the successful partnership model of government and the community for conservation that has been developed.
URBAN IMAGES
MAL(L)PRACTICE
Yashdeep Srivastava observes that consumerist privileges in Indian cities are creating architectures that morph cities and their visual histories.
CITY SPACE
These Mumbai Streets…
Shilpa Phadke states that Streets are places for control and analysis the everyday lives of streets challenges.
Chandigarh, Corbusier and the Crowd:
Architecture and Spatial Congestion in Northern India
Michael Chapman and Dr Steffen Lehmann wonder how should the growth and expansion of Indian cities be organised, planned and conceptualised?
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