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Shopping malls as public space in India
15 May 2013 12:03 PM | No Comments -
The Great FSI Debate : Increasing FSI improves housing solutions
17 April 2013 6:14 AM | No Comments -
The Great FSI Debate : Indian Cities & the Shanghai Fascination
15 April 2013 5:53 AM | No Comments -
The Great FSI Debate: Use FSI in a holistic manner.
11 April 2013 4:38 AM | No Comments -
The Great FSI Debate: Benefits of Urban Density
04 April 2013 4:28 AM | No Comments -
The Great FSI Debate: FSI versus Quality of Life
03 April 2013 10:28 AM | No Comments -
Why small towns are lagging behind?
31 March 2013 5:57 AM | No Comments -
Live: Highlights from Indian Budget 2013 for the Urban Infrastructure Sector
28 February 2013 7:15 AM | No Comments
Housing India
Why Mumbai Needs a Strategic Urban Design/ Ecological Master Plan
Revival of Historic cores of Cities
What Architecture means…
My big idea for cities in 2012: Cities with Shared Pod Car Systems
My big idea for cities in 2012: Making cities Sustainable
My big idea for cities in 2012: Making cities Sustainable
In light of the recent environment!
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The Urban Vision : Capture the BIG Picture
Urbanism Archive
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My big idea for cities in 2012: Social impact bonds, Outcomes-based permitting, Public Spaces
Posted on January 4, 2012 | 15 CommentsI have three ideas: . 1. Social impact bonds. Leveraging public dollars with private / nonprofit innovation and accountability. . 2. Outcomes-based permitting. Offering greater flexibility in urban design in order to stimulate private investment. . 3. Reclamation of government owned land for public space. Using vacant space (e.g., alleyways, utility... -
Life Between Buildings
Posted on February 12, 2010 | 52 CommentsArchitects begin with programs for building. The program is measurable, quantifiable, a finite entity (something that accountants love). But life is about aspirations, hope, joy and expression. All things immeasurable, non quantifiable but connected to our feelings. Ultimately we are what we are by how we feel. Seemingly impossible tasks can be achieved if we feel that we can achieve them. Can building programs, can buildings reveal the richness of life? Is it the building or is it the space it contains or is it the experience of form, space and light which elicits responses deep within us? How does one synthesise the measurable and the immeasurable -
How should we perceive the “Indian City”
Posted on August 8, 2009 | 33 CommentsPERCEPTION noun 1. the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept [syn: percept] WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. In the quest for progressive and developing approaches to design, it becomes essential to begin at the root of the process of... -
INDUTOPIA: REMARKS ON THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY INDIAN CITY
Posted on February 1, 2009 | 88 CommentsIndia is a place where complexity and chaos are embraced as key ingredients in the warp and weft of the urban fabric. Indian culture also embraces patience. She has waited, and can wait: the still center around which a whorl of change and continuity, parochialism...
