Eco City Ideas: Hydroponics, the urban face of Agriculture 2.0
Hunger and water scarcity are but two sides of the same coin, both in urban India as well as in…
Our invisible Green Collars
Imagine our beloved city of Mumbai if our hundred thousand ‘waste-pickers’ / ‘rag-pickers’ suddenly vanished! Our neighborhoods would be awash…
Can Hyderabad be made livable?
If livable cities give all citizens equal opportunity to lead healthy, comfortable and safe lives, how livable is our Hyderabad…
Design & Public Housing
India is the second highest populated country in the world with nearly 1.3 billion populations contributing to 17% percent of…
Stemming corruption
A friend recently threw out the juicy question of how we can help improve government transparency and accountability in India.…
Inclusive cities and special children
Talking about inclusive cities has become fashionable today. It appears that conclaves and round tables on urban issues cannot be…
Smart Growth
Compared to suburban greenfield sites, developing infill brownfield property is complicated and costly. We must level the playing field by…
Life Between Buildings
Architects begin with programs for building. The program is measurable, quantifiable, a finite entity (something that accountants love). But life…
The (Indian) Urban Dictionary
Urban Planners : There are very few trained urban planners, maybe less than the number of municipal corporations, so urban…
Why Mumbai Needs a Strategic Urban Design/ Ecological Master Plan
As Mumbai matures and harbors aspirations of becoming a world-class city or an international business center, the City needs to…