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Shopping malls as public space in India
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The Great FSI Debate : Increasing FSI improves housing solutions
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The Great FSI Debate : Indian Cities & the Shanghai Fascination
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The Great FSI Debate: Use FSI in a holistic manner.
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The Great FSI Debate: Benefits of Urban Density
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The Great FSI Debate: FSI versus Quality of Life
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Why small towns are lagging behind?
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Live: Highlights from Indian Budget 2013 for the Urban Infrastructure Sector
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Shopping malls as public space in India
Posted on May 15, 2013 | No CommentsIt was high monsoon season. Rain-dodging families, teenagers and the elderly were in search of a retreat: a place to gather, stroll and dig into their lunch tiffins away from the oppressive heat and humidity. As India’s leading builder of enclosed shopping malls, Mumbai granted... -
The Great FSI Debate : Increasing FSI improves housing solutions
Posted on April 17, 2013 | No CommentsThe minimal FSI currently exists in the Island city of Mumbai and its Suburbs is surely affecting the city’s housing sector and quality of life of people living there. The city boasts one of the highest population influxes (12 million population-highest in India) than any... -
The Great FSI Debate : Indian Cities & the Shanghai Fascination
Posted on April 15, 2013 | No CommentsThis is emerging as a series on how Indian Cities perform and think on foreign urban solutions to local problems. While the BRT continues to draw mixed responses, there is another city-changing idea in the pipeline. This time the urban development minister ‘moots’ the idea... -
The Great FSI Debate: Use FSI in a holistic manner.
Posted on April 11, 2013 | No CommentsDensity is good for any city for several reasons: better connectivity, smaller carbon footprint and more improved mixed-used development. And Mumbai stands at an advantage for all these reasons but we are still getting it wrong. The density has never been used as planning tool... -
The Great FSI Debate: Benefits of Urban Density
Posted on April 4, 2013 | No CommentsMumbai is one of the most populated cities in the world living on a tiny footprint, as compared to its international peers. The statistics and unique and shocking- a FSI or living space/household of 2.8 sqm and public open-space/ person less than 1sqm. Mumbai’s current... -
The Great FSI Debate: FSI versus Quality of Life
Posted on April 3, 2013 | No CommentsFloor Space Index is a tool for optimum ‘land consumption’ and ‘building density’. There is an on-going discussion about vertical cities and increasing FSI three or four times in India cities, which are primarily cities ‘ground level cities’ till now. To do judicious and optimum... -
Why small towns are lagging behind?
Posted on March 31, 2013 | No CommentsThere are 4,378 urban centres that have the 285 million urban citizens of the country. Of these there are 35 cities that have more than 1 million people and together account for 107.88 million people. That means the remaining 177.12 million or more than half of the... -
Vinayak Bharne on “The Emerging Asian City”
Posted on November 8, 2012 | 4 CommentsVinayak Bharne is the Director of Design at Moule & Polyzoides in Los Angeles, one of the founding firms of the New Urbanism movement; and a joint faculty of urbanism and planning at the Sol Price School of Public Policy and the School of Architecture... -
Monument in motion
Posted on September 1, 2012 | 1 Commentphoto credit: Rafa http://www.micamara.es Jantar Mantar, over the past two decades, has offered numerous reflections on the complex intersection of history, protest, place and democracy. Witnessing innumerable performances of protest — not simply as modes of political expression, but also manifestations of the democratic success... -
The perfect is the enemy of the good!
Posted on August 27, 2012 | 4 Commentsphoto credit: Emmanuel Dyan Recently I had an opportunity to participate in two engaging dialogues. One, a presentation by Patricia Clarke Annez on her paper- Ahmedabad – Building a Liveable City for all and the second, ‘Dreams and Planning’ delivered by architect and urban and regional planner Prof. Edgar F. N....
