On maps, watercolours and old sketches that show how Mumbai’s CSMT rearranged the city around it. A Station Is Never Just a Station Stand outside Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus on…
When someone says “concrete pipes”, it’s hard not to picture the large, bare pipes that line our roads. Huge, grey and impossible to miss, they sit exposed adjacent to construction…
The year 2021, unlike its tedious predecessor, could only be described as good and eventful. The year had seen the rise of the Squid Game phenomenon, Suez Canal memes and…
Across the mighty Ganga in Bihar, near Mokama in Patna district, two bridges stand parallel: the nearly seven-decade-old rail-cum-road Rajendra Setu, and the new six-lane Aunta-Simaria Ganga Bridge. As age…
The commonly used phrase is ‘men see paths, women scan for danger’. This phrase says a lot about women and the urban experience, which is shaped by different perceptions of…
Future Cities are often imagined through autonomous vehicles, intelligent buildings and glowing digital networks, but the most important transformation may be less visible. The cities of the coming decades could…
Urban green infrastructure is often framed as a design and planning issue: cities need more parks, trees, wetlands, green corridors, and open spaces to address environmental issues related to global…
In the modern world, we spend a lot of time on roads, rest stops, and bridges. It has become a repeating cycle of where we are and where we want…
Drive past any growing skyline, and it’s hard to miss. Cranes stitched between half-finished towers, hoardings wrapped around entire city blocks, the constant low hum of a mega-development taking shape…
Human’s City What makes a city? High population density, advanced infrastructure, formal administration, and economic vibrancy. When you think of a city, the first thoughts that might occur are tall…
At 8:30 on a Monday morning, a city appears to be doing what it has always done. Cars move through intersections, trains arrive beneath crowded platforms, cafes open their doors…
Cities are often organised around movement, productivity and constant activity, leaving little room for the slower processes of observing, experimenting and simply staying with an idea. And yet, these slower…