A Research Programme for Urban Housing
This paper outlines a research proposal for a series of investigations into aspects of urban housing which it seems important to understand before formulating an enlarged public housing programme....
View ArticleShanghai dreams: Urban restructuring in globalizing Mumbai
This dissertation examines a faltering state project to remake Mumbai into a "world-class" city and an international financial center by 2013, inspired by Shanghai's comprehensive urban renewal during...
View ArticleKumbh Mela 2013: Healthcare for the millions
Mass gatherings pose challenges to healthcare systems anywhere in the world. The Kumbh Mela 2013 at Allahabad, India was the largest gathering of humanity in the history of mankind, and posed an...
View ArticleSpecial political zone: urban planning, spatial segregation and the...
The violence in Gujarat in 2002 presented a paradoxical phenomenon, namely, a spectacle of violence ostensibly enacted by non-state forces that was covertly and overtly sanctioned by the state....
View ArticleGlobalization and Agglomeration in Newly Industrializing Countries: The State...
As the dominant region for India's rapidly growing software industry, Bangalore is often compared to Silicon Valley. This dissertation examines the basis for the comparison by studying the software and...
View ArticleInappropriate appropriations of planning ideas: Informalising the formal and...
This research explores how the American planning idea of the neighborhood unit was implemented in India, why and how the recipient society appropriated the concept, and what that means for how Indian...
View ArticleArchitectural Aptitude Tests and Course Performance: A Case Study
Architecture schools in India have been conducting aptitude tests for selecting students for admission to B. Architecture program. The reason for the conduct of such tests is a strong notion that...
View ArticleBeing a State in India: From Modern Traditionality to Modern Cosmopolitanism...
The paper will provide a historical evaluation of the process of State formation: the State as it existed in pre-colonial India, its development through successive periods of colonization, and the...
View ArticleDrivers and barriers to occupant adaptation in offices in India
Occupant window-opening behaviour in Indian offices is a nascent field. This paper relies on the thermal comfort field study data from 28 Indian offices in Hyderabad and Chennai. Occupants in naturally...
View ArticleContemporary Urban Policy in India: A Critique of Neoliberal Urbanism
In the era of contemporary globalization, the ‘urban’ is being redefined just as dramatically as ‘global’ with new orientations in urban activities and their role in the national and global economic...
View ArticleA linguagem de padrões eo desenho interativo
Neste artigo, a partir da utilização do trabalho de Christopher Alexander, eu apresento um método que usa “padrões” para auxiliar o desenho urbano. O método permite que os habitantes de um bairro...
View ArticleTeaching Design at the Limits of Architecture
Pre-industrial architects inherently knew the effectual dimension of design through its materiality, detail, and form. Until now, the intellectual dichotomy of human thinking held that mind and body...
View ArticleThe Micro-Politics of Urban Transformation in the Context of Globalisation: A...
Through a case study on Gurgaon in the state of Haryana, this article explores how local political factors, the rural–urban divide and conflicts between multiple tiers of government influenced the...
View ArticleMilitary Security and Urban Development: A Case Study of Delhi 1857–1912
In 1857 Delhi ceased to be the seat of the Mughal kingdom, and in 1912 it became the capital of the British Empire in India. The city had always had strategic and, therefore, economic and political...
View ArticleMANKIND'S EARLY DWELLINGS AND SETTLEMENTS
It took many centuries, indeed millenia, for mankind's shelter and settlement to evolve to the intricately woven communities that responded entirely to climate, material resources, cultural and...
View ArticleGrowth, Inequality and Poverty in India: Spatial and Temporal Characteristics
This paper examines the empirical relationship between economic inequality, poverty and economic growth in the Indian states. Using NSS data on consumption for the 13th to the 53rd Rounds, I compute...
View ArticleUrbanization and Urban Systems in India
This substantive and original contribution to the study of urbanization in India critically analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the Indian urban system and provides new insights into contemporary...
View ArticleUrbanization in India – Spatiotemporal analysis using remote sensing data
Urbanization is arguably the most dramatic form of irreversible land transformation. Though urbanization is a worldwide phenomenon, it is especially prevalent in India, where urban areas have...
View ArticleMonitoring and modelling of urban sprawl using remote sensing and GIS techniques
The concentration of people in densely populated urban areas, especially in developing countries, calls for the use of monitoring systems like remote sensing. Such systems along with spatial analysis...
View ArticleConsumption Smoothing, Migration, and Marriage: Evidence from Rural India
A significant proportion of migration in low-income countries, particularly in rural areas, is composed of moves by women for the purpose of marriage. We seek to explain these mobility patterns by...
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