Rao, Vyjayanthi. "Proximate Distances: The Phenomenology of Density in...
Urban density is often taken to be self-evident and treated as an indicator or attribute of urban space upon which urban planning and individual planning decisions are made. This article makes the case...
View ArticleBOUCHER, NATHALIE, MARIANA CAVALCANTI, STEFAN KIPFER, EDGAR PIETERSE,...
Across urban studies there is an increasing preoccupation with the forms of articulation that link a multiplicity of cities across a region often known as the ‘Global South’. How do cities such as...
View ArticleDatta, Ayona. "The digital turn in postcolonial urbanism: Smart citizenship...
The smart city as a “digital turn” in critical urban geography has gone largely unnoticed in postcolonial urbanism. This paper seeks to address this gap by examining the emergence of new forms of...
View ArticleRao, Vyjayanthi. "A new urban type: Gangsters, terrorists, global cities."...
This article examines the concept of urban charisma as a quality that circulates through urban imaginaries and in the gestures and practices of everyday urban figures. Specifically exploring the figure...
View ArticleShukla, Samir. A real estate absurdity called BRTS. Ahmedabad: Serendipity...
As citizens of Ahmedabad are rejoicing that their city is the first in India to have a metro rail, a BRTS (Bus Rapid Transport System) and local AMTS (Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Service), I am...
View ArticleOommen, Thomas. "Rethinking Indian Modernity From the Margins: Architectural...
This paper interprets the context and implications of a little-known but consequential ideological feud that emerged between rival “regionalist” and “modernist” camps of architectural practitioners in...
View ArticleChandavarkar, Prem. Bengaluru’s Elevated Corridors: A Case Study in Urban...
The Government of Karnataka proposes a long network of elevated traffic corridors, totalling close to 90 kilometres in length, to alleviate congestion in Bengaluru, and recently floated a tender for...
View ArticleAhmad, Naveed, Yuming Zhu, Zahid Shafait, Umer Farooq Sahibzada, and Abdul...
Due to the scarcity of land for urban development, Brownfield Redevelopment (BR) is considered a sustainable urban land tool in developed countries, but its adoption in developing countries remains in...
View ArticleSingh, M., and M. M. Sardesai. "Cannabis sativa (Cannabaceae) in ancient clay...
The present research trend is to explore sustainable construction materials having least environmental im- pact that also encapsulate in terms of our natural re- sources. The present communication...
View ArticleShukla, Samir. Leaving AI to kids: One more of Great Indian Strategic...
As I like to stay updated about the latest advancements in science, I often shift from watching Nag-Nagin movies to equally informative documentaries about alien visitation.As I see “UFO experts” and...
View ArticleCitizen’s Charter of Demands for Inclusive and Just Urban Development:...
We are a group of people across different parts of the country involved in the questions of city and for whom is the urban meant for. We have been working with these questions in various forms,...
View ArticleHoelscher, Kristian. "The evolution of the smart cities agenda in India."...
With the election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014, urban-led economic growth in India was firmly framed around a vision of ‘smart cities’, an ambiguous concept, which promotes the integration...
View ArticleChhabria, Sheetal. "Citing the Poor: Commercial Sovereignty and Capitalist...
Building on recent studies that have sought to locate Karachi’s history within multiple geographies, this article analyzes how Karachi’s urban poor became used to prove Karachi’s (and by extension...
View ArticleTripathy, Jyotirmaya. "Development as Urban Imaginary: Post-colonial Planning...
Contemporary India’s tryst with development continues to revolve around cities, and the latter remain the locus of India’s development narrative. But instead of seeing the city as already constituted...
View ArticleTripathy, Jyotirmaya, and Dharmabrata Mohapatra. "Does Development Exist...
Drawing from the insights of post-structuralism, the essay questions the ontology of underdevelopment existing prior to its representation and locates the idea of development within discourse. Since...
View ArticleStrung Course: Life and Work of CP Kukreja, Edited by Aruna Bhardwaj, Bhawna...
The exhibition Strung Course, life and work of C P Kukreja is 3rd in the series of Modern Indian Architects (MIA), an initiative of Sushant School of Art and Architecture, Ansal University where the...
View ArticleShukla, Samir. Fighting fire through fire fighting. Ahmedabad: Serindipity...
Whenever there is an incident of fire in the city, I exasperatedly await for the same tragi-comic drama that gets played out. We have the same news of most buildings found to be violating the...
View ArticleGradillas, Madeline S.. Analysis and design for thermally autonomous housing...
In the 2010 International Workshop on Housing, Health and Climate Change Meeting Report, the World Health Organization identifies housing as a primary cause of poor health in developing countries. The...
View ArticleChandavarkar, Prem. The Death of Architecture?. Banguluru: Musings on...
When we were in our late 20s, my wife and I were backpacking across Europe. On one of our train journeys, we struck up a conversation with a middle-aged Austrian gentleman who was curious to know the...
View ArticleShukla, Samir. Building a nation under the hot Sun. Ahmedabad: Serendipity:...
Just as I stepped into my car and switched on the AC, I noticed that it was displaying outside temperature to be 50 C!If you uninitiated about the mysterious ways of the weathermen and are under the...
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