High Street is the best way to encourage local entrepreneurship & “Make in India” Strategy!
High street retail encourages local entrepreneurs. You’ll find much more participation of local businesses, innovative businesses which are actually run…
We build communities not buildings or malls.
The reason we have never built malls is because our focus has never been on individual building. Our focus has…
Corbusier’s Modern Architecture Cult destroyed the Vibrant City Life!
If you see the old cities in India they have always encouraged high street shopping. But in the newer cities…
Malls are a nightmare for a city!
A mall typically is in an isolated place away from a high street and typically has a large car park…
Surendra Hiranandani: Why malls are signs of a failed City!
If you take away the high street shopping and put them into malls, you are taking away the life and…
Mumbai Musings
I believe Mumbai is one of the greatest cities in the world. It works well and inspires its citizens to…
What makes a good city?
A prerequisite of a good city is mixed use neighborhoods, density and walkable streets. Let’s take examples. London, New York,…
The Crawford Market Makeover Drama
The re-development plan for the Crawford Market, which is one of Mumbai’s prized heritage structures, has created a huge controversy.…
$ a gallon architecture??
After the Second World War, North American built its cities around the automobile in what is often termed as auto-…