APLI Mumbai : A Citizens Vision Plan – Opportunity Mumbai: Redeveloping the PortLands for a liveable Mumbai
We believe that the Mumbai Port Trust redevelopment offers a great opportunity to ensure that Mumbai regains its place as…
Religion and Urban Transformation – A Conversation with Vinayak Bharne
Following his 24-chapter edited volume, The Emerging Asian City: Concomitant Urbanities and Urbanisms, Los Angeles based urbanist Vinayak Bharne’s co-authored…
Cultural / Civic Entrepreneurs Forum: Enliven the community spaces
The Cultural / Civic Entrepreneurs Forum is aimed at highlighting initiatives that have the potential to stimulate and enliven the public…
Can we first fix our Viewing Lens?
A few years ago, when my dissertation topic for the planning course at Development Planning Unit, UCL London looked at…
Shopping malls as public space in India
It was high monsoon season. Rain-dodging families, teenagers and the elderly were in search of a retreat: a place to…
The Great FSI Debate : Increasing FSI improves housing solutions
The minimal FSI currently exists in the Island city of Mumbai and its Suburbs is surely affecting the city’s housing…
The Great FSI Debate : Indian Cities & the Shanghai Fascination
This is emerging as a series on how Indian Cities perform and think on foreign urban solutions to local problems.…
The Great FSI Debate: Use FSI in a holistic manner.
Density is good for any city for several reasons: better connectivity, smaller carbon footprint and more improved mixed-used development. And…
The Great FSI Debate: Benefits of Urban Density
Mumbai is one of the most populated cities in the world living on a tiny footprint, as compared to its…
The Great FSI Debate: FSI versus Quality of Life
Floor Space Index is a tool for optimum ‘land consumption’ and ‘building density’. There is an on-going discussion about vertical…