Datta, Anjali Bhardwaj. "Genealogy of a Partition City: War, Migration and...
This paper makes interventions in our understanding of the histories of Partition. Rather than treating 1947 as a moment of temporal rupture, it argues that processes that were set in motion during the...
View ArticleGEVA, ROTEM. "The Scramble for Houses: Violence, a factionalized state, and...
The partition riots that erupted in Delhi following independence in 1947 resulted in the massacre of thousands of Muslims and the departure of roughly 300,000, leaving the remaining Muslim community...
View ArticleChatterjee, Prerana. "Managing Urban Transformations of Refugee Settlements...
Migration has become a common phenomenon in the contemporary world. In the Post World War II period, due to social and political unrest between conflicting and dividing nations, many countries across...
View ArticleJigyasu, Niyati. "Alternative Modernity of the Princely states- Evaluating...
The first half of the 20th century was a turning point in the history of India with provincial rulers making significant development that had positive contribution and lasting influence on India’s...
View ArticleMehra, Diya. "Protesting Publics in Indian Cities The 2006 Sealing Drive and...
The bazaar or intermediate classes have remained outside the predominant research imagination on urban change. Delhi's wholesale and retail traders, the primary subjects of this paper, are a subset of...
View ArticleGould, William, and Stephen Legg. "Spaces before Partition: An Introduction."...
This introduction frames a selection of papers that encourage a richer spatial understanding of the years before the partition of India. The papers respond to two types of question. One type is spatial...
View ArticleKeswani, Kiran. "The contribution of building centres to low-cost housing in...
The author argues that the government's role could change from being the provider to becoming a facilitator. Progress in the Building Centre Programme in India has been slow and a three pronged policy...
View ArticleMastrucci, Alessio, and Narasimha D. Rao. "Bridging India’s housing gap:...
More than 60 million homes in India are unfit for decent living. Replacing this stock with decent housing will entail significant costs and increase energy consumption and related CO2 emissions due to...
View ArticleKeswani, Kiran. "The practice of tree worship and the territorial production...
In India, there are religious practices intersecting with the process of urbanization at various levels. This paper looks at the practice of tree worship which continues to be a part of everyday life...
View ArticleSingh, Shalini. "Urban Development and Tourism: Case of Lucknow, India."...
Despite the fact that India is essentially a rural society, the oriental charms of its cities are quite unique inasmuch as they are rich repositories of the country's heritage and culture. Alongside...
View ArticleSingh, Shalini. "A Study in Cultural Expressions of the Nawabs of Avadh."...
Secular India has witnessed a unique amalgam of different races & religions which has enriched her landscape with cultural heritage. Mughals and the Nawabs of Oudh have left memorable vestiges in...
View ArticleShaban, M. A., and O. Dikshit. "Improvement of classification in urban areas...
Investigations have been carried out for digital spectral and textural classification of an Indian urban environment using SPOT images with grey level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM), grey level difference...
View ArticleKeswani, Kiran. "The logic of design: its role in understanding the...
The everyday life of a city can generate informality in urban space, particularly in emerging economies. Using the grounded theory approach, this paper looks at how urban space in a market precinct is...
View ArticleSarasvathy, Saras D., Suresh Bhagavatula, Sylvain Pierre Bureau, Rajalaxmi...
It is normal to associate informal economies with slums, poverty, illegitimacy and misery of one kind or another. But the world's informal economies also enable, create and offer aesthetics that make...
View ArticleShukla, Samir. RCC: A love marriage turning foul?. Ahmedabad: Serendipity:...
Since the monsoon has hit us, it has become a daily affair to read about news of fatal construction failures. A lot of buildings that have collapsed in rains appear to be made from the wonder material,...
View ArticleChandavarkar, Prem. "The Human Within the Architect." In A conclave on...
On 16 August 2019, I delivered the opening note of the Frame Conclave 2019 on the theme of “Modern Heritage”. It deals with the issue of disciplinary specialisation - as architects we tend to look at...
View ArticleSiddiqi, Anooradha Iyer. "Crafting the archive: Minnette De Silva,...
This article is about the work of Minnette De Silva, which made claims upon heritage and historical meaning through its concerns with craft. It investigates three facets of her oeuvre—her building, her...
View ArticleSiddiqi, Anooradha Iyer. "Architecture Culture, Humanitarian Expertise:."...
Architecture Culture, Humanitarian Expertise: From the Tropics to Shelter, 1953–93recovers a history of architecture and humanitarianism through an examination of institutions and the development of a...
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