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Anthology of Houses – Part II
The part II discusses the larger operative metaphor that has been experimented on houses and enable larger architectural discourses and influenced the academics and practices…
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Anthology of Houses – Part I
Houses have always remained as theoretical excursions or playfield to reinvent architecture and set new cannons for contemporary paradigm in Architecture.
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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…
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Cultural Quarters as Mechanisms for Urban Regeneration
This blog reviews the concept of cultural quarters as an approach towards urban regeneration. This is a scholarly work of John Montgomery, who is an…
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Mapping and Representing Informality
The case of Gazdhar Bandh is very unique, it has been informally built on no development zone and highly vulnerable situation of estuarine conditions. Originally…
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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…
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Contemporary Perspective on Resilience: Breucom + Krvia
Increased frequency of natural hazards and sea level rise are expected impacts of climate change in India. Marginalized urban settlements are often vulnerable to disaster…
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Conservation Management Plan for Mass Tourism: Historic Core of Udaipur
Increased leisure time and changes in lifestyle and consumption patterns have given renewed importance to tourism that either can encourage the preservation and maintenance of…
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Developing a Conservation Framework for the Historic Core through Phenomenology: Pune
he current development practices governed by logics and codes fail to address this kinetic layer of experience, human associations and engagements; the salient aspects of…
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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…
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Managing the Impacts of a Temporary Pilgrim Event: A Case of Alandi- Pandharpur Waari.
Indian cities are in constant motion. They are composed of different layers. One form is everyday and other is temporary. There are many cultural, religious…
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Polarisation
City creation is a practice that evolves historically by allowing different urban actors to contribute within this ‘process of creation’ and that a satellite city…
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Conservation of Streets-Reaffirming Sense of Place: Mathura.
This study dissects the anatomy of Streets that provide varying experience to the users through different modes, interaction through multiple activities, communication, movement pattern and…
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Reviving the Historic Core Through Community Spaces: A Case of Alwar
The research aims at examining the issues and challenges faced by the historic core and investigate and understand the reason why the local-community of historic…
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Gender conscious approach towards conservation of “Shaktipeethas”, Places of Female Divine: A case of Mahur
Author: Chandan Jain | Krvia – Post Graduate Program | 2020 In India there is contradiction between patriarchy system and the traditional veneration of goddess…
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Changing nature of sociability within privatized public spaces.
Indian cities had a very conducive public realm, which facilitated both intended and un-intended social interactions, by virtue of their spatial settings and social structure.…
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Socio-Ecological Paradigm in Historical Water System – The Case of Jabalpur
The aim was to study the changing relationship between human and nature through the lenses of ecology and values, under the purview of urbanization.
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Mapping the Spatial Dynamics of Insurgency: The case of Gurjar Agitation in Rajasthan
Author: Daksh Jain | Krvia – Post Graduate Program | 2020 Insurgency can be understood as revolt or protest against the state or authority following…
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Conservation and Up-gradation of the Transforming Economic – Infrastructural Linkages in the Historic Core of Pune City
Urban Transit connections through history and territorial identity are important for establishing ‘place specialization’ in a rapidly urbanizing and global city. Identity of a place…
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Exploring everyday urbanism and “cultural territories” in the context of Mumbai
This Research is a spatial exploration of everyday life within a ‘cultural territory’ to assess, design and create socio-culturally implicit spaces which are being hampered…
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Building Resilience for Urban Flooding in Mumbai:
Urban Disasters impact the social, technical and economic systems of an area. The narrative of Resilience is being considered as a viable option to tackle…
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Learning and Theorizing Modernity
The 8 x 8 lecture series through video presentation is an attempt to articulate two aspects, primarily it articulates what is modernism and secondly it…
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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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SDG and Smart City in India
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/sdgo/goal/SustainableCitiesAndCommunities/all/chapter/d736a843-1940-4e1c-accd-731b39a68105
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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…
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What is Architectural Theory
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Cultural Territories and Urban Resilience
This is an ongoing effort to consolidate the resilience understanding in Indian context. The blog and video is an attempt to bring resilience perspective on…
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Ecological – Environmental Dimension of Urban Design.
Quality of life is an idea that is often being discussed in various studies as a response to many issues and complexities that have recently…
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Smart Cities: Conclave 2020
The recent time has seen the shift in urban planning concerns of our cities, especially second tier cities. The emerging paradigm of SCM is aspired…
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Urban-Scape Theory
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New Frontiers of Urban Theory – A Global South Perspective
The literature on global cities is abundant but until recently most of it has been in relation to cities of the developed North. Rapidly urbanising…
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Introduction to Urban Design
The lecture addresses:What is Urban Design, What are its constituents?, What are forces that urban designers have to deal with?
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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…
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Architectural History and Theory: IES University, Bhopal
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Domain and Discipline: Urban Research
DOMAIN AND DISCIPLINE: URBAN RESEARCH SLIDE 1: This lecture shall focus on the content of thesis inquiry and the thesis question? You all must have…
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Real estate, housing and neo-liberalism
In Mumbai given the acute housing shortage and its prevailing unaffordability, the increasing dilapidation of existing housing stock and limited choice for slum rehabilitation, redevelopment…
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The “Other City ” of Christo
The experience of such monumental art form was to prompt viewers to wander aimlessly yet engaged in their thought, slowly limp into the other world,…
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Discussion on Architectural Thinking and Representation.
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What Happened to Our Great Cities?
It is this high density that has contributed to the rise of these cities as economic hubs, cultural centers offering immense opportunities to diverse sets…
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Architectural Thinking and Architectural Knowledge
There are fine divisions between two terminologies that are often operationalized when one is carrying out thesis research, i.e. Architectural thinking and Architectural knowledge.
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