Since the start of the COVID-19 epidemic in January 2020, which caught everyone off guard, architects all around the world have been working to make public areas safer and prevent the virus from spreading. People around the world have been compelled to stay indoors and break off all physical touch
Dharavi is Asia’s largest slum development and is largely regarded as an eyesore in Mumbai’s severe urbanity. Open sewage, packed hutments, small lanes, and poor living conditions are all common images of the setting. Despite these limitations, Dharavi has evolved into a highly dynamic and thriving ecosystem fueled by the
The concentric zone “model” designed by Ernest Burgess was developed and considered as an urban planning “model” regardless of its nature and context. It would appear that the commonality in meaning is “abstraction of reality,” with the aim of either better understanding a real system or being able to predict
Public Life and Shared Streets The world has been living in isolation and lockdowns for the past couple of years due to the global pandemic brought about by the COVID-19 virus. It has been more than two years since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak as a
Strategic Urban Design for Better Cities Cities! are the most complex of all human creations. We cannot understand a city using any single point of view. Therefore, to study a city, is also to study a uniquely powerful form of human settlement. We create our environments, and then we are
What is a Site Analysis? Site analysis is a pre-design step of architectural and urban design that entails the examination of a site’s climatic, geographical, historical, legal, and infrastructural contexts. Site analysis is a critical part of the planning and design process. No development takes place in isolation – it
Originality of Heritage UNESCO and its Heritage Conservation Committees have been working ceaselessly to conserve, safeguard, and list World Heritage Sites, yet more than 95 percent of these sites and buildings remain unexplored. The historic core of society has been a constantly shifting phenomena, adapting to changing societal dynamics. The
Cinema and Indian Urbanism Cities with its social complexities and vibrant environments have always inspired Indian Film-makers to draw inspiration from the narrative of cities and simultaneously portraying its changing urban scape through cinema. One can thus understand that cities and cinema are so deeply interconnected that the later can
New Urbanism seeks a reversion to pre-war neighborhoods that were designed to be at the human-scale, highly walkable, offer community opportunities for ample engagement, and follow traditional neighborhood development patterns. This article will aim to assess the successes and shortcomings of three realized New Urbanist projects. While these projects vary
What is the concept of Walkability? With the accelerating globalization and modernization of the cities, the idea of walkability was almost considered a utopian concept. The rapid increase in the urban sprawl of emerging cities made motorized transport the most convenient and appreciated mode of transit. The cities became more
