Supreme Court, 97th CAA and Ghettoism
In part 1 we saw that formation of housing societies exclusively for members having common a belief or faith, or a persuasion or a religion or eating habits, etc., has been cleared by the Hon. Supreme...
View ArticleUNESCO votes: No connection between Temple Mount and Judaism
In a 24-6 vote, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on Thursday gave preliminary approval to a resolution that denies Jewish ties to its most holy religious sites: the...
View ArticleReinterpreting Literary Studies: Beyond Thomas Babington Macaulay’s “Minute...
English literary studies, as a discipline, is fundamentally passé and is in a state of impasse; the sooner we realise this, the faster we can move on and make an epistemic shift in the Humanities in...
View ArticleBerkeley Planning Journal
Berkeley Planning Journal: Volume 29 | DISPLACEMENTWe are living today in a time of unprecedented human mobility. While millions migrate unfettered across borders and regions, our contemporary era has...
View ArticleGenetically engineered communities : plant and animal improvement,...
CFP for a session on the Rural History ConferenceThe aim of this panel is to extend Foucauld’s notion of biopower to bring together the history of plant & animal breeding and genetics, rural...
View ArticleCivic body eyes profits from slum rehabilitation
AHMEDABAD: A seven-member committee will be set up next month to revise the list of slum-dwellers in one of the largest slum rehabilitation projects coming up in the western part of the city. Eight new...
View ArticleThe City School of Architecture (Colombo) Ltd (CSA) has planned a series of...
CSA is organizing an Open Day Exhibition on November 5-6, 2016, which is open to the public. It will also issue a special 30th Year Magazine Publication during the month of November. CSA, which has...
View ArticleGovt to tackle muck using software park template
BENGALURU: Karnataka, which is grappling with a garbage glut, has mooted 3R Environmental Parks for the 219 urban local bodies, including Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP).
View ArticleSymposium explores contemporary Indian architectural practice
The Department of Architecture’s annual Preston Thomas Memorial Lecture Series symposium will address “Currents in Indian Architecture: Contemporary Practice + Discourse,” Oct. 13-15 in Milstein Hall....
View ArticleDrawing Education: Worldwide! (Muenchen, 28-29 Oct 16)
As a technique, drawing was a firmly entrenched feature of European culture and society from the Early Modern Period until the 20th century. In conjunction with writing, it was the central competence...
View ArticleWorking groups for 'Smart City' formed
The Tamil Nadu Urban Finance and Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd (TUFIDCO) and the city corporation held a meeting on Friday to seek opinion on the smart city proposal and also form various...
View ArticleUNESCO was a diplomatic defeat for Netanyahu
This resolution was supported by Netanyahu’s new friends from Egypt, Russia and China, as well as Chad, which has grown closer to Israel, and Vietnam, which buys a lot of Israeli weaponry. Greece, with...
View Article6th AIARG Conference (Waterford, 27-28 Jan 17)
6th Annual Conference of the All-Ireland Architecture Research Group (AIARG)The aim of the conference is to highlight new areas of architectural research, encourage collaboration and facilitate...
View ArticleComplexity & Contradiction in Architecture (New York/Philadelphia, 10-12 Nov 16)
To mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Robert Venturi’s "Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture" (1966), The Museum of Modern Art and the University of Pennsylvania have co-organized...
View ArticleMutating Ecologies in Contemporary Art (Barcelona, 1 Dec 16)
The Anthropocene and climate change not only define the biogeophysical planetary conditions in the early decades of the 21st century but also describe an unprecedented social and cultural space in...
View ArticlePanel on Inter and Transdisciplinary Relationships in Architecture
Which disciplines interact with architecture? Why these particular disciplines? In what way(s) do they interact with architecture? What type of relationship governs their interaction? Is it based on...
View ArticleNew Secretariat to cost Telangana Rs 1,200 crore
Hyderabad: A road map has been devised for shifting the Telangana state Secretariat so that the existing four blocks (A, B, C and D) can be demolished and construction of a new Vastu-compliant...
View ArticleBRK Bhavan for temporary Secretariat
Hyderabad: A roadmap has been devised for shifting of the TS Secretariat so that the existing four blocks (A, B, C and D) can be demolished and Secretariat can be completed within a year.
View ArticleUrbanisation has contributed to India’s economic growth: Housing secretary
Recognising the challenges of urbanisation, India has affirmed its commitment to the New Urban Agenda at UN Habitat III. Infrastructure deficit, financing urban development, inclusion of the informal...
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