Category: Book Review
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Global Cities
One of the central themes in Sassen’s analysis is the intersection of global economic forces with local conditions. She posits that global cities function as command posts for the global economy, facilitating the flow of capital, information, and labor.
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Cities Rethought
The book attempts to challenge pre-conceived notions of “what we know” and critically reflect on the very idea of “the urban.”
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Ordinary Cities
Jenifer Robinson’s perspective about development in ordinary cities offers a critical lens through which to explore the nuances of urban growth, social equity and local identity within various global contexts.
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Collage city:
The book attempts to build the argument that the modern planning paradigm has dis-integrated the cities and there is a need for pluralistic imagination in urban planning. The argument is built around three large themes.
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University of Nottingham: Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft Cities
It expand the scholarship to include many cases from both North and South of the hemisphere to understand how resilience is negotiated between Hard and Soft cities every day. The rationale is to develop a narrative around “Just” resilience.
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Architectural Principles in the Age of Fraud
“Why so many architects pretend to be philosophers and don’t care how buildings look” Branko Mitrovic
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City Riffs
The book brings the analogy of place and ecology, which necessitates in-depth understanding as both share the concept of place and space.
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Seeing The Better City
The book brings about importance of inter-disciplinary aspects of human experience as an important resource to make city. The visual and experiential attributes can make a contribution to understanding the urban environment and its relationship with society and people
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City Culture Reader
The book attempts to articulate various interface between city and culture and written in interdisciplinary manner. The word interdisciplinary means it attempts to read city and culture from other disciplines or views.
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Model Town: Using Urban Simulation in New Town Planning
It is an assortment of essays by various renowned urbanists and researchers, descriptions of various simulation and speculation efforts around the world, especially in the design of new cities.
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How Will India Fix Her Urban Future?
Author: Dr. Binti Singh | Sameer Unhale How Will India fix her Urban future? is an exploration of key opportunities and challenges in a rapidly urbanizing India. With the help of recent examples and case studies, the authors argue for the promising global position that India has in the post pandemic world. The collection of…
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Book Launch: Master Planning for Change
This book brings important conversation between urban resilience and urban morphology
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The Situationist City
Situationist international manifesto aimed to convert avant-garde interest in everyday space and mass culture into a revolution.
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Space, the City and Social Theory
Author: Fran Tonkiss The book attempts to invert the view city as a fixed space within which various social processes are worked out. The city is a site for social encounter, social division, and as a field of politics, power and every day experience. Further in investigation, the author employs two key literature and school…
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Master Planning for Change
Amongst the several publications dealing with resilience strategies and adaptability for urban systems (which are made up of several parts), this publication sets the urban discourse with “Cities as Living System” depicting a multitude of behavior in transition or situational change.
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SMALL CHANGE: COMMUNITY & ADAPTABILITY
This blog attempts to raise some of the fundamental questions related to adaptability, formal & informal, communities, individual and collective, while encountering everyday risk, coping capacity and way to reduce vulnerability. Very often the definition of communities in our cities are relegated through compartmentalized geographical/ policy version, namely, SRA housing, slum, suburban housing, urban community…
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LUCKNOW: CULTURE, PLACE, BRANDING & ACTIVITISM
The recently published book titled “Lucknow: Culture, Place, Branding & Activitism” is a scholastic urban research work on contemporary urban transformation of Indian Second Tier cities. This especially brings about the urban discourse on second tier city subject whose genesis are embedded into the historic layers and are currently witnessing the rapid transformation. It builds…
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URBANISM ECOLOGY AND PLACE: Reading "City Riffs"
The recent publication of book titled ” City Riffs” by Richard Plunz ( Columbia University, GSAPP) is based on urbanism discourse (dialogue) in relation to place and ecology. The preface by Kenneth Frampton argues the production of urban knowledge in neo-liberal economy results in aporetic question on limits and scope in the field of urban study.…
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TRENDS AND ISSUES IN HOUSING IN ASIA: Book Review
The recently launched publication attempting to address housing situation in Asia, derives its momentum from current theoretical inquiries into Asian Urbanism at large. The earlier literature were skewed towards the model of modernism and progressive, imagining the notion of future, and often Utopian in western generic sense. The publication is deviating and focusing on Asian models in addressing…
