When we are talking about climate change, one of the challenging parts is to communicate the context and its effects clearly. “It’s getting hotter.”“The rains are changing.”“By how much? Over…

This blog traces how Bangalore’s weather has changed over time and how the urban fabric has responded to it. Climate change arrives not as a crisis but as a daily…

This blog explores how traditional Goan houses and building methods embody a deep climatic intelligence that often goes ignored through contemporary shifts in construction, creating spaces that might not be…

A think-piece that discusses the simultaneously global and local facets of the climate crisis, how India’s urban centers are uniquely placed to address it, and the incredible opportunity that documentary…

The sea doesn’t disappear all at once. It retreats slowly, quietly, until one day the docks feel too still. For India’s coastal fishing communities, that slow retreat is already underway.…

This blog talks about how East Kolkata Wetlands naturally treat sewage, reduce urban flooding, support agriculture and pisciculture, and protect Kolkata against climate change. It reflects how this system can…

How Political Ideologies Shape The Public Spaces Of Indian Cities “The city is a product of a state of war between political and economic forces that shape and re-shape the…

“The street is a room of agreement.” 1 Kahn’s quip at his AIA Gold Medal acceptance speech holds as true today as it did in 1971.  The quintessential Indian street is methodical…

Fontainhas is a unique case where boundaries between private and public are blurred due to various spatial and social factors. Accredited as a UNESCO Heritage Zone in 1984, the area…

Mobility in urban India can be defined as the capability to move from one location to another influenced by the push ( i.e. outflux of people) and the pull (…

The flight and plight of Gender and Mobility in Urban India The intersection of gender and movement in urban India reveals a complex and often overlooked aspect of city life,…

A commentary on the approach to designing/building mobility infrastructure in urban India with a focus on the neglected spaces below the flyovers. In Indian cities, flyovers define ‘modernity’. Over the…

With the rise in transport infrastructure projects, in the name of nation-building, the informal economies continue to bear the brunt of ‘public purpose’ projects. “Internal displacement is the great tragedy…

“An equally important facet of the right to life is the right to livelihood because no person can live without the means of livelihood.” — Excerpt from the unanimous judgement…

Nagari 2021 addresses the subject of people and livelihoods in Indian cities in an attempt not only to use film as a medium to narrate the issues, but really to…

“Adequate housing was recognized as part of the right to an adequate standard of living in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the 1966 International Covenant on…

Film as a medium has played an important role in generating awareness on social issues. This blog is a list of films that address housing and issues related to housing…