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Indigo Tower: Bio Purification Tower
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Contextual Tall Buildings in India
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Empowering and Making the city authorities accountable is key
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Public: The Forgotten Realm
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Skylines
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Mumbai Musings
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Chasing the Vertical Dimension
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Eco City Ideas: Hydroponics, the urban face of Agriculture 2.0
01 June 2010 6:21 AM | No Comments
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The Urban Vision : Capture the BIG Picture
Others Archive
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Empowering and Making the city authorities accountable is key
Posted on July 28, 2010 | No CommentsI am posting excerpts of the interview I did with Alain Bertaid. Alain Bertaud is an urban planner with over 30 years experience and has worked in America, Europe, and Asia. After retiring from the World Bank as a Principal Urban Planner, he has been working... -
The Race between Cities.
Posted on March 22, 2010 | 2 CommentsUrbanization is a chase for economic development and revenue generation for our states and cities. Urban areas are attempting to be magnets of growth, alluring the essential entrepreneurs and investments providing impetus for growth and development. This is the changing definition and spatial behavior of urbanization in the present and post globalization. -
Landscape & Urbanism
Posted on October 10, 2009 | 1 CommentQuestions on Landscape: 1. Please simply talk with us about the principles you comply with in landscape design. First I will have to point out, in order to be better understood, what I believe to be the landscape by the following: ‘Landscape is ESSENTIALLY EVERYTHING.’ On the same way as Beuys or Filou in art? Without doubt. We are not depositary of territory or of any act of creation, thus each of us acts, builds, and evolves within these landscapes. Also, I can speak of ‘externalization’, ‘outsourcing’, all referring to the distant of which the details becoming the driving force of this kind of project: Where are we in Kazakhstan? Who are the people that are to be the humus of this land and its future inhabitants? -
Who are we?
Posted on October 10, 2009 | 1 CommentWho are we? In an attempt to understand the future of the indian city I felt it necessary to understand who we are. The leaders of our freedom and independence had a vision of India and a hint of a Global India. So I decided to... -
Events : Sustainable Transport: Key to Climate Change Mitigation
Posted on October 10, 2009 | No Commentsphoto credit: Bike by the Sea Sustainable Transport: Key to Climate Change Mitigation Context: Climate Change is clearly the greatest threat the world faces today. Transport Sector contributes to around a quarter of energy use & related greenhouse gas emissions that have led to Climate Change.... -
Reinventing city revival models.
Posted on August 9, 2009 | 2 CommentsOften, when framing urban policies we in India adopt a view where we try to create policies where all the lobbies are satisfied, .Most times this may not necessarily translate to a great vision. When you analyze a city like Bangalore, there is an... -
In light of the recent environment!
Posted on May 20, 2009 | No CommentsShedding a little Light onto the Current Environment As recently as ten months ago, “In light of the recent environment” used to be a term coined mostly by environmentalists to push for cut backs in consumption and production in order to curb carbon emissions. It used... -
The Architecture of Community
Posted on April 30, 2009 | No CommentsThe Architecture of Community Is there an art to building cities? Do modernist towns have the same beauty and aesthetics as traditional historic settlements? Does the extraordinary technical and scientific inventiveness of the industrial age have a parallel in its architecture and urban planning? Leon Krier... -
Revival of Historic cores of Cities
Posted on April 13, 2009 | No CommentsThe conflict between heritage and development that is being played out yet again over the past few months stands to hold the Mumbai’s future at stake if not resolved pragmatically. The extremist positions that are being illustrated in the media is visibly pointless- On one... -
Olympics & City transformation .
Posted on March 26, 2009 | 2 CommentsI am browsing through some spectacular images captured by a photographer friend who is documenting the infrastructure that China built for the Olympics. I wonder. What is olympics really about? Sports. Sure, but only to a certain extent. Olympics are in fact a lot more about city transformation and...
