After around five years of researching on the city, over several projects, a volume of city information sources has accumulated across various locations digital content gets stored. Not being in a position to directly erase these and mostly because several of the projects are still reaching its final state of being mumbaiopendata.org is a method to organize these various exercises in hoarding.

To acknowledge this aspect of the project at its very onset is to locate it among other ongoing projects/ sites of similar visions [approximately four to an another fifth possibility] aspired which too share hopes of an all inclusive city resource center. Generated both as personal and institutional projects they are to a degree personal information dumps of the city. To state all inclusivity of an information archive is naivety on the part of the publishing agency has been the first lesson.

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Tests a virtual repository for Mumbai. It’s hosted on two platforms the primary as a blog on tumblr and extended resource content via google sites.

Mumbai is moving towards a new phase in city planning. Touted as impacting an entire generation, a plan is going through its motions. The plan dawns the age of data publishing both by MCGM and the ever-active group of citizens initiatives. Never before there is a pursuit to disseminate urban data, information in the form of city/ community resource applications and propaganda sites. Recognizing such events mumbaiopendata.org aims to act as a repository for these pursuits.

At this phase, the project is a compilation of found working projects on Mumbai while monitoring the evolving landscape of city knowledge production by its various stakeholders. Site positions itself as a secondary information resource. In bringing the myriad sources...

Possibility of a city policy on culture is a derivative of two conferences of note the city hosted in the recent past. One held in 1992 at the SNDT Women’s University and 12years later the other in 2004 at Asiatic Library. Both these workshops, a result of the invited speakers summarises mostly as sketch, on status to a cosmopolitan culture. A shifting landscape captured by its various dreamers the artists, writers, poets, historians, architects and planners. These conferences try within limits, audits Mumbai to present a manifesto for its future. Though a definition of culture exists when told as a summary of its discussions a formal recognition is still at hand. The Maharashtra State Cultural Policy of 2010 launched during the Golden Jubilee celebrations broadly lays out what the state recognises as its culture. Principles grounding the text recognises “Culture is a whole complex of...

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Dear All,
We are pleased to inform you that the Development Plan of Mumbai has been presented to the Mayor and Group Leaders at MCGM yesterday, 16th February 2015. We request you to download it and kindly analyze the same. We shall convene a meeting next week of all stakeholder organizations for collating suggestions and their views. We are also in the process of scheduling meetings with statutory committees of MCGM for appraising our elected representatives about the same.
_ UDRI February 17th, 2015

Zindabad Sathiyon,
Yesterday the DP was presented in front of the group leaders in BMC. As HSVN campaign members, who have contributed constructively and decisively to give a people’s face to the DP revision process, we urge each and everyone to read the document and assess the plan, and what it means for us and our city. There is a threat that debate might revolve around FSI...

Compiles a selection of tweets by Aditya Thackeray on his proposal on, 24 hours special entertainment zones within city limits. Published from 14th to 19th February 2015 the selection outlines the course of events and the documents made available which facilitated the proposed legislation.

Very interesting interview with @AUThackeray. Refreshing take on politics. Soon on @CNBC_Awaaz MumbaiNightLife pic.twitter.com/b89p2POby0

— Tamanna Inamdar (@TamannaInamdar) February 19, 2015

Here we go! This Mumbai24hrs plan belongs to each Mumbaikar. For any doubts one still might have, my blog for @ndtv http://t.co/8ufqbRjEjK

— Aaditya Thackeray (@AUThackeray) February 18, 2015

Mumbai to get 24-7 Spl entertainment zones thanks to @AUThackeray who wants youngsters to ‘chill’ http://t.co/OLthzUSCeI Delhi mange same

— Rahul Kanwal (@rahulkanwal) February 18, 2015

Q&A: Mumbai’s put to...

by Cloudhopper767 [from www.savetheworldport.org]

Published on 11 May 2013

0:14 “Kristine Johnson” a familiar piece of New York aviation history

0:19 is about to face the wrecking ball

0:21 CBS news Lou Young has more from JFK Airport on a fight to save the old Pan American Worldport

0:30 “SAVING THE WORLDPORT” JFK terminal 3 is now in its final two weeks of active life

0:32 Delta Airlines is moving out and tearing it down

0:36 for some that’s just the way things are

0:39 its progress you gotta move forward

0:41 but the place has a rich history once known as Worldport

0:43 it was PanAm New York hub at a time when flying was exciting and glamorous

0:47 some are trying to save it from the wrecking ball even as they marvel at the design

0:51 that seems to promise a future that never was

0:54 “Glen Weaver, Air Traveler” starship enterprise

0:55 looks like a spaceship...

As our built environment evolves, we must continually decide what is worth keeping. A significant percentage of buildings today—particularly in Western nations—are preserved through imposed guidelines. While there are myriad reasons why a building or site may warrant preservation, being deemed a landmark is one of the most powerful and complicated. Architecture’s complicated relationship with wider social issues is laid bare through the process of landmarking, in which only one of six criteria—as outlined by the United States National Historic Landmarks program—mentions architectural merit. Furthermore, while structures were previously landmarked after having withstood the test of time, we now consider preserving comparatively young buildings and debate the historical value of unbuilt structures. By designating local, national, and international landmarks and landmark districts...

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editorial review from TEKTON: A Journal of Architecture, Urban Design and Planning

The basic premise of the essay is acceptable and worth pursuing. However, this is a very rough draft which is difficult to read mainly due to peculiar sentence structure. I have highlighted some in red (italics). Please go through sentence by sentence and see whether it makes sense or conveys what you intend. So many sentences start at one place and end somewhere else. Group the ideas and provide headings. This will improve the organisation of the essay. The intent of many footnotes is not clear. Are you attributing the sentence or an idea? Do they serve a bibliographic function or meant to provide an extended discussion? Use references where you are citing a source. Develop a consistent way of mentioning books, projects, practices, websites while referring to them in the text or...

by Rahul Mehrotra

Contemporary Indian cities reflect two components occupying the same physical space. First is the formal or static city. Built of more permanent material such as concrete, steel and brick, it is comprehended as a two-dimensional entity on conventional city maps and is monumental in its presence. The second is the informal or kinetic city. Incomprehensible as a two-dimensional entity, it is perceived as a city in motion - a three-dimensional construct of incremental development. The kinetic city is temporary in nature and is often built with recycled material: plastic sheets, scrap metal, canvas and waste wood. It constantly modifies and reinvents itself. The kinetic city is usually not perceived as architecture, but instead in terms of spaces that hold associative values and support lives. Patterns of occupation determine its form and perception; it is a temporal...

Anthony Vidler, Enrique Walker, Felicity Scott

Beatriz Colomina, Jeffrey Schnapp, Peter Eisenman

Mark Wigley, Bernard Tschumi, Carlos Labarta

After the Manifesto

Editor: Craig Buckley

Designer: Project Projects

176 pages, paperback

1-883584-87-6

Does the recent explosion of the architectural manifesto signal a new urgency of the form, or does it represent a hopeless effort to resuscitate something that has outlived its useful lifespan? After the Manifesto brings together architects and scholars to revisit the past, present and future of the manifesto. In what ways have manifestos transformed the field over the last 50 years, and in what ways has the manifesto itself been transformed by new modes of communication? Authors include Ruben Alcolea, Craig Buckley, Beatriz Colomina, Carlos Labarta, Felicity D. Scott, Bernard Tschumi, Anthony Vidler, Enrique Walker, and Mark Wigley.