Hutton, Deborah. "Memory and Monarchy: A Seventeenth-Century Painting from...
The well-known Deccan painting, The House of Bijapur, completed c. 1680 by the artists Kamāl Muḥammad and Chand Muḥammad, depicts eight of the ʿAdil Shahi rulers of Bijapur seated together in an...
View ArticleAhmad, Sohail, Osman Balaban, Christopher N. H. Doll, and Magali Dreyfus....
This paper revisits the City Profile for Delhi, the first article ever published in Cities in 1983 (Datta, 1983). Thirty years later and following the centennial anniversary year of Delhi’s...
View ArticlePrakash, Aditya. "Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana. Some Thoughts:...
In 1963 there was only one Punjab, though a lot of it had gone to Pakistan. The spirit was: we can do it, and do it better than anybody anywhere. Nothing but the best was good enough. That is what had...
View ArticleRuffle, Karen G.. "Guises of the Protective Hand: The ʿAlam and the...
The Qutb Shahi formation of Shiʿism with its material culture, sacroscape, literature, and ritual practices, sought to understand local Deccani religious grammars of the body and integrate its...
View ArticleOdendaal, Nancy. "Reality check: Planning education in the African urban...
Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa owes much to the colonial legacies that inform the shape and composition of African urban spaces and places. This applies to legislation, institutional systems and...
View ArticleSamadi, Zalina, and Rodzyah Mohd Yunus. "Conflict of Image and Identity in...
The main vertical components of shop houses are façade and window display. Regardless its impressively charming character, the locality of the shop houses has substantial influence. For instance the...
View ArticleParashar, Ashish Kumar, and Rinku Parashar. "Innovations and Curriculum...
In this article, a craft knowledge perspective is adopted which relates teachers’ conceptions and beliefs to their teaching practice, acknowledging contextual and cultural aspects of this practice....
View ArticleBajunid, Anniz Fazli Ibra, and Mohamed Yusoff Abbas. "Identification...
Culs-de-sac in Shah Alam, have begun to take centre stage, especially in the high-end neighbourhood developments. Typically, these neighbourhoods can be easily identified. However, in contrast to...
View ArticleBrosius, Christiane, and Tina Schilbach. "Introduction: “Mind the Gap”:...
The contributions in this special issue are based on an interdisciplinary research project concerned with the formation of public spaces and urban imaginaries in Asia's global cities. The project has...
View ArticleSalama, Ashraf M.. "Knowledge and Design: People-Environment Research for...
This paper argues for introducing a theory for knowledge integration in architectural design education. With a focus on human behavior and people-environment research, a contextual analysis of the...
View ArticlePrakash, Aditya. K.C. Theatre. Chandigarh: Aditya Prakash Foundation, 2005.
The structure of K.C. THEATRE—a landmark in Sector 17 of Chandigarh is now RUBBLE, ostensibly because the administration has agreed to IT being converted into a Multiplex. This transformation requires...
View ArticleAnand, Mulk Raj. How Chandigarh got built: a recall by Mulk Raj Anand....
In the summer of 1950, Shri P.N. Thappar I.C.S. Official of Punjab State came to Bombay on his way for a holiday in U.K.I asked him in our That Punjabi “Thappar Sahab Tusi Kithay Rahogey Where do you...
View ArticlePrakash, Aditya. Working with Le Corbusier. Chandigarh: Aditya Prakash...
Arrogant, self-centred, overpowering, confident, assured about himself, Unconcerned about others, abrasive… Yet for all that…
View ArticleByrne, Caitlin. "Relationship of convenience? The diplomatic interplay...
This paper analyses the diplomatic dynamics that define and underpin the relationship between the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) and the Commonwealth Games host city. For the host city, the...
View ArticleBlack, David. "Dreaming big: The pursuit of ‘second order’ games as a...
This article examines the growing attraction of governments, North and South, to the hosting of “second order” sport mega-events (below the level of the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup) as a key...
View ArticleCole, Henry Hardy, and Charles Shepherd. Photograph XXII. Exterior of the...
THE remains of the ornamentation upon the exterior surface of the building testify to the beautiful effect which the complete and undamaged structure must formerly have derived from its details. The...
View ArticleRaychaudhuri, Anindya. "Demanding the impossible: exploring the possibilities...
This article examines what is arguably a paradox: given the unique position held by the events of the 1947 Partition in the collective consciousness of the Indian subcontinent, why is there no national...
View ArticleFreitag, Sandria B.. "A Visual History of Three Lucknows." South Asia:...
In part, this essay suggests one aspect of the new ‘visual turn’ in history, treating as evidence the production and reception of visual-culture artefacts. In part, it is concerned with the way that...
View ArticleBlack, David. "The Symbolic Politics of Sport Mega-Events: 2010 in...
For ambitious civic and national boosts sport mega-events provide unique opportunities for the pursuit of symbolic politics—a chance to signal important changes of direction, reframe dominant...
View ArticleSinha, Amita. "Champaner‐Pavagadh Archaeological Park: A Design Approach."...
Champaner‐Pavagadh, like many other heritage sites in India, is both an historic and ethnographic landscape. It possesses a unique status as a medieval city—Champaner—frozen in time, more or less...
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