Tag: Urban Design
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Ahmedabad: Good City Form.
There are several historical cities in India that are living cities, keeping customs and rituals in tandem with new means and ways of re-purposing its architectural heritage and urban form.
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Negotiating Housing: Aurangabad Studio
When we discuss the housing in Indian context, one faces the complexity & multiplicity of issues that shapes the house and housing. Having said that, the housing policy and manifestation in contemporary time chooses to evade many of such complexities through uniform policy structure and creates a scenario of replicability and anywhere-ness.
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15-Minute City: Utopia or Reality?
The 15-minute city was popularized by the Mayor of Paris Anne Hindalo who used it in her election campaign. The idea entails phasing out vehicles and creating a 15-minute city in an effort to encourage more self-sufficient urban communities with grocery shops, parks, cafes, sports facilities, health centers, schools and even workplaces just a walk…
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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 events which are temporary in nature, taking place periodically around the cities.
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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 negates this choice
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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. The phenomenon of everyone being someone’s someone, was quite natural within an inclusive public realm in Indian cities.
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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 a period of suppression. Insurgent movements are a result of failure of state to provide an inclusive environment of growth and development. It manifests in urban centers creating deep cleavages…
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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 due to rapid urbanization process.
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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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SDG and Smart City in India
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/sdgo/goal/SustainableCitiesAndCommunities/all/chapter/d736a843-1940-4e1c-accd-731b39a68105
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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 emerged within our cities in the process of transformation. Along with that the quality of life is also connected with the question of ecology and environmental issues.
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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 to be moving towards formation of reactive, reflective and knowledge-oriented society. The SCM is expected to move from functional, hierarchical formation of our cities to digitally networked situation
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Urban-Scape Theory
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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 discourse with “Cities as Living System” depicting a multitude of behavior in transition or situational change.
