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Mumbai’s old textile market is on the edge of a new aesthetic

The Moolji Jaitha Market is a maze of lanes and gullies that culminates in small chowks; a grid of entrances and intersecting lanes at right angles to the…

Let there be light, but aesthetically

Heritage buildings bathed in thoughtful lighting are a visual delight and also lend character to a city’s night-time aesthetic. Lighting, done correctly,…

Influencing change in cities through urban design interventions

Design holds incredible power to influence change in cities, address climate crises, break the prevailing order of exclusion, and renew nature-people relationship.…

‘Ecology and landform give rise to urban form. Town planning flattens it to 2-dimension’

Cities have been turned into a mechanical mode of counting numbers with excel sheets, looking at which plot of land can be…

Lighting, shadows, and cognitive dissonance in
urban spaces

This essay presents an emerging concern about how urban environments should be understood and designed in terms of lighting, and shows how…

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Walking the faultlines of a forest in the city

Amidst the chaos and cacophony of urban life in Mumbai and Thane, the lush green and quiet paths of the outer areas…

‘If the forest and animals exist, so will we. Otherwise,
it’s all over.’

In the fierce debates over protecting the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, its core area and buffer zone, the voices of the Adivasis,…

‘Crown jewel of Mumbai…cannot allow it to slip away’

Ankita Dhar Karmakar, Multimedia Journalist and Social Media in-charge in Question of Cities, has reported and written at the intersection of gender,…