Norway wealth funds hoping to expand footprints in India
The 90-odd Norwegian companies including wealth funds operating in India find the business climate in India favourable with many of them looking to increase footprints in the near future. According to...
View ArticleScrapped Plan for Guggenheim Helsinki Reveals Political Fissures
In a 53 to 32 vote on November 30, the Helsinki City Council rejected a proposal to build Paris-based Moreau Kusunoki Architectes’ design for a new Guggenheim satellite museum on the Finnish capital’s...
View ArticleVenkaiah Naidu to inaugurate international conference on housing, urban...
The sixth edition of ‘Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on Housing and Urban Development’ will be inaugurated by Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu in New Delhi on Wednesday. During the three-day...
View ArticlePlanning Amaravati Needs Expert Guidance and an Inclusive Framework
The recent invitation extended by the Andhra Pradesh government to a leading Telugu film director to participate in the city building process of its new capital Amaravati may be seen as a pointer to...
View ArticleRio gets UNESCO world heritage status
Rio de Janeiro, nicknamed the Marvelous City, officially entered the UN's list of world heritage sites in recognition of its soaring granite cliffs, urban rainforest and beaches.The UN cultural body,...
View ArticleUber Drivers Are Helping the Company Kill Their Own Jobs
What Uber has done, since it started seven years ago, is to lay a sweet trap for people willing to become taxi drivers, but without the means and qualifications to get a license. Initially Uber...
View ArticleThe great escape: how Bucharest rolled entire churches to safety
Between 1982 and 1988 almost a dozen churches, as well as other buildings, were moved hundreds of metres in order to save them from destruction, as dictator Nicolae Ceaușescuwent about radically...
View Article'It's not just shopping, right?': life in the shadow of North America's...
World Waterpark is one of the many super-sized attractions in my local shopping centre – which happens to be the largest mall in North America, and was once the biggest in the world.
View ArticleUrban Omnibus » Gotham in the Gallery
The Museum of the City of New York has just opened a permanent exhibition that represents “New York at Its Core.” It tells the story, in space, of how New York came to be New York. ... Dense with...
View ArticleHeritage and Revolution: First as Tragedy, then as Farce?
From the French Revolution in the eighteenth century, to the communist revolutions in the twentieth century in Russia, China and Cuba, to the Kurdish and Arab revolutions in the twenty-first century,...
View ArticleThe Politics of Bodies at the Early Modern Court (DHI Paris)
As a space of elite sociability and cultural representation the early modern court shaped and produced bodies that were as specific to their environment as they were political. Life at court was...
View ArticleA Companion to Arctic Cinema
Editors Emma Vestrheim and Luis R. Antunes are pleased to announce the preparation of A Companion to Arctic Cinema (under contract with Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 2018) and to ask for expressions...
View ArticleA Tale of a Tragedy
It was December 11, 1971. A N M Golam Mostofa, Veteran journalist of the then daily Purba Desh was catering to family duties. The time was hectic for the family as Mostofa's nine-month-old son Anirban...
View ArticleToward a more meaningful architecture, planning and design
IN the past few months many friends and colleagues have been asking me if I plan to go into politics, or accept any position in government. Even a handful of readers of this column have suggested that...
View ArticleNew Urban agenda include integrated urban policies
Centre on Wednesday said that objectives of New Urban Agenda include integrated urban policies in line with cooperative federalism, eliminating barriers to the flow of capital, land and labour and...
View ArticleBrett Steele named new Dean of UCLA School of Arts and Architecture
Brett Steele, director of the Architectural Assn. School of Architecture in London since 2005, has been named dean of the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor and...
View ArticleUrban Infra Corporation comes to develop Vijayawada, Guntur
It was also decided to develop Eluru, Nellore, Ongole, Ananthapur and Kurnool as smart cities. The development works should be speeded up under the smart cities plan. The cabinet accepted the proposal...
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