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Indigo Tower: Bio Purification Tower
22 August 2010 2:23 AM | No Comments -
Contextual Tall Buildings in India
30 July 2010 5:30 AM | No Comments -
Empowering and Making the city authorities accountable is key
28 July 2010 6:59 AM | No Comments -
Public: The Forgotten Realm
11 July 2010 4:43 AM | No Comments -
Skylines
05 July 2010 5:25 AM | No Comments -
Mumbai Musings
30 June 2010 5:40 AM | No Comments -
Chasing the Vertical Dimension
12 June 2010 1:33 PM | 4 Comments -
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
Sustainability Archive
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“Human civilization has systemic problems”
Posted on May 27, 2010 | 4 CommentsLéon Krier is internationally known as a pioneering architect, urban planner and architectural theorist. He is especially recognized as a passionate advocate of traditional urban models. He studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart. From 1968 to 1974, he worked in the studio of James Stirling, in London. He has also taught as professor of architecture and urban studies at the Architectural Association of the Royal College of Arts in London, at Princeton University of Virginia and as Davenport Professor at Yale University. -
City Making as Climate Policy
Posted on May 24, 2009 | 3 CommentsCity Making as Climate Policy How well-designed cities play a crucial role in de-linking increasing living standards and resource consumption In 1986, the German news magazine ‘Der Spiegel’ chose for one of its weekly editions a cover with a severe warning. It pictured Colognes famous gothic cathedral... -
Challenge of Energy Transition
Posted on January 29, 2009 | No CommentsCOSTS AND CHALLENGES OF ENERGY TRANSITION Andrew McKillop Former Expert-Programming, Div A-Policy, DG XVII-Energy, European Commission, Brussels Submission to FINSIA for JASSA journal, Version 3.1, Jan 2009 ABSTRACT Costs for moving away from fossil fuels, on a worldwide base, can be quantified and estimated in various ways, using different hypotheses... -
The Day Mumbai went Flat
Posted on January 26, 2009 | 1 CommentThere was no gas in Mumbai a couple of weeks ago . If you passed petrol pumps at Breach Candy you would find angered residents screaming at indifferent employees who couldn’t even offer a little bit of black juice with a bribe. Trains were extra... -
The Urban Planet
Posted on January 25, 2009 | 1 CommentThe idea of cities has held the fascination of many theorists, poets and other intelligentsia; and they have all described the city in many many ways over centuries. But the single most important value that a city epitomizes is : Human Aspiration. Cities at their very core are simply...
