Urban Leaders Symposium
Date: 21st January 2014, Location: Four Seasons Hotel Mumbai. This Pane explored the opportunities & challenges for next generation urbanization in…
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…
Leaders Study Program , NYC 2013: Manifesto , Photos ,Presentations & Reports
Photos Select Presentations Day 1 Vishaan Chakrabarti ( Video on Country of Cities ) Learning from NYC Urban vision learning…
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.…