There’s a very common perception that slum inhabitants who have been shifted to high-rise buildings under policies and yojanas rent out their pucca houses and move back to the slum.…
On a weekday morning in Dharavi, one of South Asia’s largest informal settlements, a narrow lane barely three metres wide carries the weight of an entire economy. Handcart vendors, schoolchildren,…
City planning and urban spaces have always been a crucial part of the toolkit used by the carriers of politics. Planners are greatly influenced by the laws and regulations laid…
The Closing Ceremony Is Not the End Every four years, the Olympics grab the attention of the entire world. Sportsmen are made national heroes, cities get to reinvent themselves with…
Architecture school is grueling. You do not expect it to be this intense. The coffee-fueled all-nighters, carefully drafted sheets ripped up, and begging professors to extend deadlines will make you…
Cities change. They grow, evolve, and adapt, but more often than not, that change comes at a cost. The wave of urban redevelopment tends to bulldoze over the cultural heritage…
It takes the soul of humanity to construct beautiful, peaceful cities where everyone lives in peace, yet nothing stops the urge of the same human breed to tear them down.…
Today’s cities are described in terms of infrastructure, economic development, and progress. Streets have been expanded, riverbanks have been redeveloped, and neighborhoods have been altered in the name of modernization.…
Collection, segregation, treatment, and safe disposal of waste, along with additional processes and organizations, make up a city or country’s waste infrastructure. Each of these steps is crucial and forms…
On an ordinary morning in the residential district of Hammarby Sjöstad in Stockholm, Sweden, its residents are up and about their morning activities: cooking breakfast, tidying up, and getting ready…
Architecture extends beyond the art of designing, it is of great significance because it reveals how spaces, buildings and urban plans influence, and reflects social relations and ideologies. India’s architectural…
Architecture is the art and science of designing buildings. But its influence is not limited to walls, roofs and structures. Architecture is man’s behaviour, an ordering of society, a store…