Maddipati, Venugopal. "Nothingness as Scaffolding for Being: Gandhi, Madeline...
This essay attempts to open up a conversation between M.K. Gandhi and contemporary ecological thought. Unlike ecologists, who think through the human and then reach for a wider post-human ecology, in...
View ArticleJoshi, Moulshri, and Amritha Ballal. "Forgetting and Remembering in Bhopal:...
The Bhopal Gas Tragedy is irrevocably linked to the city of Bhopal in public perception. On the night of December 2, 1984, the leak of lethal Methyl Isocyanate gas from the Union Carbide pesticide...
View ArticleBahga, Sanyam, and Gaurav Raheja. "A Study of Regional Assertions in the...
Critical regionalism is an architectural approach that seeks to correct sterile and abstract modernism by using contextual forces that focus on local needs and potential. As globalisation disrupts and...
View ArticleSundaresh, A. S. Gaur, Sila Tripati, and K. H. Vora. "Underwater...
Mahabalipuram, the famous centre of Pallava art and architecture, is situated on the coast of Tamil Nadu. The local traditions and the foreign accounts vividly refer to the submergence of six temples...
View Article"Mahābalipuram: La Prrosperité au double visage." Journal Asiatique 293, no....
Through the exploration of the pallavasite of Mahābalipuram which appears linked more specifically to the Devī-māhātmya, this paper attends to demonstrate that Lakṣmī, Viṣṇu’s consort is not the only...
View ArticleRajani, M. B., and K. Kasturirangan. "Sea-Level Changes and its Impact on...
The name ‘Seven Pagodas’ has served as a nickname for the south Indian port of Mahabalipuram since the early European explorers used it as landmark for navigation as they could see summits of seven...
View ArticleRajani, Mandyam B., Sumanta K. Patra, and Mamta Verma. "Space observation for...
Archaeological sites often exist as ruins. It is difficult to get an overall perspective while standing near them. The present work is a 3D visualization analysis conducted on the site of Badami, which...
View ArticleMantena, Rama Sundari. "Colin Mackenzie and the Search for History." In...
In a remarkable episode of the Indian playwright Girish Karnad’s The Dreams of Tipu Sultan, Colin Mackenzie is depicted as the spokesperson for a “European” mode of historical knowledge: Mackenzie:...
View ArticleLewis, Barry. "The Mysore Kingdom at AD 1800: Archaeological Applications of...
Major early nineteenth century spatial patterns of the Mysore kingdom are reconstructed from archaeolog- ical field surveys and archival research. Central to the reconstruction is the Mysore Survey...
View ArticleTandel, Vaidehi, Shirish Patel, Sahil Gandhi, Abhay Pethe, and Kabir Agarwal....
The amount of rental housing in India has declined significantly over the years for various reasons, including the nature of the rent control laws. This paper assesses the impact of rent control for...
View ArticlePatel, Shirish, Jasmine Saluja, and Oormi Kapadia. "Affordable housing needs...
This paper describes a proposal for affordable housing across all income groups on urbanizable mostly greenfield peri-urban sites served by a suburban railway station. Connecting to this arterial...
View ArticlePatel, Shirish B.. "Analyzing urban layouts – can high density be achieved...
The purpose of this paper is to present a new form of chart, which clarifies the inter-relationships between six fundamental urban design parameters that affect the quality and character of any urban...
View ArticlePatel, Sheela, and Sundra Burra. "Access to housing finance for the urban...
This article provides information and explanation on innovations and processes which can link the urban poor to formal and community-based housing finance. It has significance for understanding how the...
View ArticleIntroduction Earthquakes in India: Response, Recovery and Impact Mitigation...
Earthquakes come without warming, and often cause massive devastation, resulting not only in the loss of property but also of lives. Many of the survivors suffer from intense and lasting psychological...
View ArticleGandhi, Sahil, Shirish B. Patel, and Vaidehi Tandel. "Revisiting the Real...
The central government has introduced the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill, 2013, which sets up a regulatory authority to protect consumers as well as promote the real estate sector. This...
View ArticlePatel, Shirish B.. "Life between Buildings: The Use and Abuse of FSI."...
The World Bank has been complaining that Indian cities are not making optimal use of their land and has been pressing for upward revisions of the floor space index, particularly in Mumbai and...
View ArticleBalwani, Shefali, and Robert Verrijt. Architects' Statement In Proposal by...
Cities are formed through the interaction of several diverse forces - social, religious, economic and physical. These forces combine together and influence the form, characteristics and experience of...
View ArticleGhosh, Nabaparna. "MODERN DESIGNS: HISTORY AND MEMORY IN LE CORBUSIER’S...
Located at the foothills of the Sivalik Mountains, Chandigarh was the dream city of independent India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. In 1952, Nehru commissioned the Swiss-French architect Le...
View ArticleJahnkassim, Puteri Shireen, and Norwina Mohd Nawawi. "ALLUSIONS TO MUGHAL...
The formative influence of the Mughal gardens on the urban spaces of the Capitol Complex, Chandigarh is discussed as part of Le Corbusier’s vision in realising new urban symbols to represent an...
View ArticleWescoat, James L.. "From the gardens of the Qur'an to the “gardens” of...
Mughal gardens are often interpreted as symbols of an Islamic paradise, but the precise relations between historical gardens and religious meaning remain vague. To clarify these relations, this paper...
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