Sinha, Amita. "Social and spatial order in villages in India." Landscape...
The paper explores the social, ecological, and religious factors which shape the village forms in India. Linear, nucleated and dispersed villages have been identified with different regions. Caste and...
View ArticleSaurabh, Suryan. Balbir's house by Anushi Garg and Ashok B. Lall In House in...
A house located in Khajuri Khas area, a census town in Delhi. It is built for a family of five, including Balbir's elderly father, wife and children; with the first floor designed for hiring out.
View ArticleSinha, Amita, and Yuthika Sharma. "Urban Design as a Frame for Site Readings...
Conservation of heritage sites in South Asia should be guided by a new post-colonial paradigm of thinking about cultural landscape. This paper proposes an urban design approach drawing upon Kevin...
View ArticleSinha, Amita. "The conservation of sacred sites: Sarnath, a case study."...
This article concerns research issues in historic conservation exemplified through a case study of a sacred site in India. It discusses the environmental qualities of Indian sacred spaces characterised...
View ArticleCornelissen, Scarlett. "The Geopolitics of Global Aspiration: Sport...
What is the significance of the fact that several recent or upcoming sport mega-events are hosted by emerging powers such as China (the 2008 Beijing Games), India (2010 Commonwealth Games), South...
View ArticleDass, Meera I., and Michael Willis. "The Gupta Temple at Behti: A New Find."...
The town of Chanderi in Madhya Pradesh was an important centre under the Sultans of Mandu in the fifteenth century. In the course of conducting a study of the town with a view to developing a...
View ArticlePatel, Divia. "Copying Ajanta: A Rediscovery of Some Nineteenth-Century...
It is a well known story that the discovery of the complex of Buddhist caves at Ajanta in 1819 led to several attempts to document the paintings inside them, these being the earliest extant paintings...
View ArticleSinha, Amita. "Nature in Hindu art, architecture and landscape." Landscape...
The article explores the Hindu attitudes towards nature as discerned through art, architecture and landscape. In this transcendental view, nature is seen as manifestation of divinity. The symbolic...
View ArticleMange, Purva A., Vinayak S. Adane, and Ravi R. Nafde. "Visual Environments...
The paper explores the fundamentals of microenvironment as essential for learning visual thinking in Architectural Schools dealing only with visual thinkers. The admission to the architecture...
View ArticleAhmed, Faisal, and Vipul Kumar Singh. "An Indian Model of Aid: Rethinking...
From non-aligned movement to the Buenos Aires Plan of Action, and from Accra Agenda to the Busan declaration, global aid architecture has been continuously evolving. There has been an increased global...
View ArticleD'Ancona, Mirella Levi. "Amarāvatī, Ceylon, and Three “Imported Bronzes”."...
THREE standing Buddha images cast in metal, of exceptionally early date for the remains in Further India, have been found in Champa, Celebes, and Java (Figs, II, 13, and 14). These figures have always...
View ArticleHawkes, Jason D., Riza Abbas, and Michael Willis. "Report of the...
This report presents the results of a short programme of fieldwork targeted towards the investigation of the archaeological and geographical setting of the Chamak copperplate charter. This inscription,...
View ArticleUpadhya, Carol. "Amaravati and the New Andhra." Journal of South Asian...
The article explores the cultural politics of regionalism in Coastal Andhra following the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh through a focus on the planning of a new capital city, Amaravati. The envisioned...
View ArticleBunnell, Tim, and Diganta Das. "Urban Pulse—A Geography of Serial Seduction:...
Diverse strands of geographic inquiry share a concern for the role of seductive projections of various forms in shaping urban policy and material realities at a distance. We trace a case of urban...
View ArticleChen, Xiangming, Lan Wang, and Ratoola Kundu. "Localizing the Production of...
This article investigates the role played by the state in the production and management of urban space vis-à-vis global agents of change. The proliferation of new towns and special economic zones as...
View ArticleSearle, Llerena Guiu. "Conflict and Commensuration: Contested Market Making...
Newly constructed high-rise housing and malls, soaring land prices and violent confrontations over land testify to the massive urban transformations underway in India today. Having secured an expanded...
View ArticleNarain, Vishal. "Growing city, shrinking hinterland: land acquisition,...
This paper describes the implications of the land acquisition process in a village in the Gurgaon district of Haryana state in northwestern India. Gurgaon city, the district capital, is emerging as a...
View ArticleNarain, Vishal, and Shilpa Nischal. "The peri-urban interface in Shahpur...
This paper describes the peri-urban interface in two villages — Shahpur Khurd and Karnera — located in the state of Haryana in north-west India, and close to Delhi, India's capital. The paper argues...
View ArticleHalkatti, Meera, Sangeetha Purushothaman, and Robert Brook. "Participatory...
This paper describes the process of participatory planning in five peri-urban villages in the Hubli–Dharwad twin city region. The objectives of the participatory planning project included enhancing the...
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