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Indeed, gullies and roads were usedto meet, to chat and play.- small houses did not feel small.Today, we live in citieswhich are melting pots.Life is impersonaland neighbours - strangers.We keep our doors shut,windows closed,curtains drawn.- small spaces feel smaller.Open windows,withdraw curtains.Strangers become familiar.Familiars become friends.Staircase landings become meeting points.- small spaces feel larger.A small space, is indeed, what it is.A small space155
and physically, it will always remain so.But, the sense of space- the feel of it,can be enhanced or constricted,depending upon how the space is treated.In a room,if the window is closedand curtains are drawn,the room ends at the window.- the room feels small.Withdraw the curtains,open the window.Look out.Look at the trees outside,at the garbage dump below,and at neighbours’windows beyond.The same room ends at the neighbours’ windows.- the room feels larger.156
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ReflectionsA collection of writings
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Those of us who have worked with hi
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21. The eternal cycle 9322. Things
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When we returned to India after liv
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Whom Are We Building Homes For?An i
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especially, we should be working ha
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population is only about 5 per cent
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absurd - what's wrong with people s
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But the fact is that today, there a
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Don’t nibble at our parksLondon,
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are available in the eastern and we
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I spent formative years of my life
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The saddest part is that we archite
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This historical bias has conditione
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with the built environment are lost
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they are the only examples of mass
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on to sub-terrain architecture, per
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It is not a mere accident of histor
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The vitality remainsA city to survi
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are taking root and more and more t
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Our Decaying CitiesAn Interview for
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People were moving into cities beca
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Chandigarh did have the advantage o
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and cheaper structures of brick. Tr
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Wanted : a Beetle buildingThe Volks
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fair to a society which desperately
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In the beginning, the response of d
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judge efficiency by the number of p
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the present system. Therefore, the
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accepted by the housing planners. T
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In the last decade, the trend chang
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Recently, I read a book titled ‘T
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The Responsive HouseThe Responsive
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gains are made due to shortened pro
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City should be seen as a verb, not
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What kind of plans, on a macro leve
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a tenure and they know that their s
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Knowledge about architecture should
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down. All these measures do not req
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A Mahatma true to his nameA tribute
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But you agree that on the day of th
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alarming, is the reported news that
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Declining quality of our elected re
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I would also prohibit candidates st
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Bureaucratic Republic of IndiaA few
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On reaching the US, he wrote a stif
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After working for some time, he wan
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Frankly, it stinks!One of the hassl
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And in many cases, lawyers and doct
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Combining the laws of social cycles
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Things seem pretty messy!India Toda
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The corporation also has French Dau
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its balanced and well-researched re
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the narrow main road. During the re
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