India's Gotham Cities: Gasping Gridlocked Ghettos - The New Indian Express
Urban India is estimated to account for over 63 per cent of the GDP and could rise to as much as 75 per cent of the GDP in the next decade.
View ArticleArchitectSpeak: Experts mull over UT’s run for smart city tag (Talk Show...
Sumit Kaur, a former UT Chief Architect, and Kapil Setia, Chief Architect, Department of Urban Planning, presented a summary of the Master Plan-2031, notified by the UT on August 15 this year.
View ArticleZócalo Public Square :: Windows Into Paris
How much of what we imagine about our neighbors actually squares with reality? ... New York-based photographer Gail Albert-Halaban recently spent a year exploring that question in Paris, peering from...
View ArticleExhibit: Island in transition | The Sunday Times Sri Lanka
When well-known architect and art historian Ismeth Raheem received a call from New Delhi in May, it was for a project right after his own heart.Ismeth Raheem pictured at the exhibition opening in New...
View ArticleThe tragedy of Cooper Union | Fusion
The best piece of in-depth investigative reporting you’re likely to read this week comes not from any journalist, but rather from the office of Eric Schneiderman, New York’s attorney general. His...
View ArticleExperts blast govt for providing middle income people with cheaper housing |...
Experts Saturday criticised the government's move to provide middle income people with cheaper housing as some state machinery have been bribing various individuals by allotting plots which they sell...
View ArticleCFP: SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DESIGN COMPUTING AND COGNITION...
This conference series aims to provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of the state-of-the-art and cutting edge research and developments in design computing and cognition....
View ArticleCFP: Creative Placemaking and Beyond - 30 August -2 September 2016, London, UK
This session will continue the interrogation of notions of creative placemaking started at the RGS 2015 annual conference, aiming to take this conversation to the US and broaden international and...
View ArticleCFP: Parallelism in Architecture and Computing Techniques, (PACT) 2016
The theme of Parallelism in Architecture and Computing Techniques (PACT) 2016 explores the relations between computational design software in architecture, organizational and global, ever-changing and...
View ArticleChennai: Response to Sm art City Challenge a let-down - The Hindu
The response to the Chennai Corporation’s invitation to offer suggestions on smartening up Chennai has not been smart enough; with the respondents offering solutions to mundane civic issues and missing...
View ArticleA new show at the Cooper Union delves into the archives of Alvin Boyarsky |...
While the exhibition does contain a few technically-inspired pieces, such as Tschumi's striking sketches for La Villette in Paris and Hadid's study for the Irish Prime Minister's residence in Dublin,...
View ArticleInformal economy offers opportunity, not just survival, Indian Habitat III...
The Delhi UTC, which kicked off on World Habitat Day, took place at a strategic moment, just after the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Further, this new development...
View ArticleInvite - ECOLOGICAL CONTESTATIONS: Ravi Agarwal in conversation with Ranjit...
Our ideas of ecology are based on our histories, and how it makes us now. Nature has turned into a generic category and is ‘acted’ upon. It has to be seen, appreciated, exploited, explored, imagined or...
View ArticleSubmerged Conflicts. Ethnography of the invisible resistances in the quotidian
Since its appearance in the pioneering pages of Hobsbawm, the concept of resistance is understood as ambivalent, elusive and controversial – more an expression of the “desire” of researchers than a...
View ArticleFor What It's Worth: Nostalgia, Sustainability and the Values of the Present,...
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference in Celebration of the Tenth Anniversary of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture at Justus Liebig University, Giessen, to be held on 28-30...
View ArticleCFP, Communal Studies Association: Anticipating the End Times: Millennialism,...
Intentional communities—religious and secular, historic and contemporary—have often been motivated by visions of the end times, including millennialism, apocalypticism, and some forms of utopianism....
View ArticleUntying the Mother Tongue. On Language, Affect, and the Unconscious, deadline...
The term we still use to designate someone’s attachment to a particular language, her potentially flawless competence, or the very “place” for her thoughts to emerge in coherent form, is “mother...
View ArticleInvite: Aggregate at the Chicago Architecture Biennial: Architecture and...
What can architectural history teach us about the history of inequality in the United States? Original research presented on subjects ranging from the American welfare state and capitalism, skyscrapers...
View ArticleRajasthan government signed 27 MoUs under Housing for All scheme
Rajasthan government on 13 October 2015 signed 27 MoUs worth 12478 crore rupees under Housing for All scheme in housing, healthcare and education sectors in the presence of Union Minister for Urban...
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