Tag: Urban Research
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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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Cultural Resilience of Urban Form:
The thesis tries to establish the need to Retain, Repair, Reuse or Redevelop historic built forms by categorizing them into high-resilient and low-resilient zones to avoid the homogeneity of urban form in the historic native town of Mumbai.
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Cropped and Uncropped Urbanism
The Salt Pans are counter place to its unbroken place, i:e city. The Salt Pans are mediated reality of urbanism, between man-made landscape and natural appendage to the city.
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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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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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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 the cultural heritage or can be the reason for growing challenges in terms of impacting the relationship of the environment with the built, the significance of the destination and the…
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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 phenomenological approach, thereby resulting in disjunction of people with their surroundings and razing the ethos of the historic cores.
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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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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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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 a place for conversation for the people.
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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 core is moving to the suburbs. The aim of the thesis is revival of the historic core through community based approach.
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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 for her sovereignty. There are diverse and conflicting views available on the position of females in religious texts, starting from feminine leadership as the uppermost goddess, to limiting her role…
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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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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 becomes an important aspect in planning process and continues to look into conserving more buildings in order to retain the collective character and memory of places
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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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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 urban disasters.
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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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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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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 gone through an undergraduate design dissertation or so called ‘thesis’ mainly focused on a few parameters that are subjected to design demonstration. It is seen very often that the parameterswhichare…
