As a resolution to identify and describe fundamental interactions of the individual and the urban environment, the government institutes Development Plans. Development Plans apportion amenities, opportunities, domains and spheres, within which the individual within society can relate, subsist and prosper. With the exponential rate of Mumbai’s growth, classical planning has failed to trace and respond to what now constitutes a crisis of massive proportions. Instrumental rationality and conviction in zoning / land acquisition in the archaic comprehensive plan has proven to be unfavourable when contending with the development of sustainable urban communities. With new perspectives on the role of public participation, the Urban Design Research Institute anticipates a reformation in the planning regime and looks to broader inclusionary policy interventions to deliver a transformed approach...

An urban area with a population of 22.7 milllion, Mumbai is forecast to stretch to an even more ungovernable 25 million before the close of the next decade. More than 60% of the population inhabit less than 8% of land, thriving in desperate physical, social and economic conditions.

The city transforms almost instantly into intangible domains which in the absence of intercession makes future policy response superfluous almost instantly. Conceived in such dynamical pandemonium, the Mumbai Reader is a research collective addressing the lack of literature on urbanism within the city. As a catalyst, the Mumbai Reader seeks to enable a contextual analysis of the city through spatial and literary understanding: reportage of existing or contemporary understandings and also an exploration into new paradigms for urban cognisance. Establishing that understanding prevalent illogic is an efficient...

Essentially the premise of the task is to collate an idea group on issues that have staged a presence in the mindscape of things. Started first with platforms and their respective templates from which content is requested to be submitted the introductory collection will see the picking up of thoughts from then the act of writing was considered a part of discussions to the requisite need to engage constantly on issues at hand and finding methods to lay them out. Text is then used to build or argue positions instead of diagrammatic positions. Negotiations are hence a discussion to be held. The list is primarily inspired with notions of non-linear generation initiated with parameters available at medium. Instead of a dated list the platform is an encouragement to randomness and necessarily doesn’t stress out submission at a timely basis. Collections adds to this stochastic enterprise in...

Post is a compilation of extracts and document sets of the city manifesto, which has been the outcome of a conference held at the bicentennial anniversary of the Asiatic Society. The conference on its onset anticipated to deliberate on the urban conservation process dealing with the reordering and regeneration of the urban fabric both in terms of the physical and metaphysical. Case here tries to document, for that matter display missing postulates of the manifesto ideally displaced during the transcribe editing exercise. Today after almost a decade from when the event was organised case for a city manifesto has been introduced, the goal is to take stock towards conceiving a progress of ideas the urban landscape has seen. If a new version for the document has to be updated, how does one go about proposing a revision?

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Methodological approach to the study of development of place or any other definition having imagined/ accepted significance is historiography. The case is towards staging the history for a contemporary piece of land in the center of city which people are aware of but is so overtly omnipresent that it gets overlooked. Facts about and for the place are diluted in the everyday. What can be considered noteworthy is a matter opinion. Should yesterday be history or do we have to wait a bit before its considered worthy to be recorded? A contemporary space, Bandra Kurla Complex is it really worth a discussion?

Even in today’s consideration, it’s identity is of an office block with glass buildings and open areas where the crowd gathers for political rallies and exhibitions. This is one end of the landscape. Entry to this imagination of the neighborhood is presently from an avenue with sound...

How does this work?

Where is all the content that have been?/ In other words, how can text be organised as per services?

How are all my thoughts moving across the internet?

This new thing svbtle should it be of any use in the everyday?

Markdown is fun but it’s new to look at. basic commands that need to be studied are as follows: IMAGE _ To add an image, drag it into the editor window, BOLD _ Bolded text here, ITALIC _ Italic text here, LINK _ Linked text here and BLOCKQUOTE > Quoted text.

Moving from right, save is a good thing!

Publish, at hold for the moment.

Preview is ok.

Post date seems fine.

Custom URL has got its troubles a.k.a - permalink is not formatted properly.

Dashboard is a dashboard. Work of John Pawson seem to find relevance once again. Do you really need a custom domain? Well, may be.

So between Tumblr, Medium, Twitter and now Subtle. We can...