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Mon, Nov 21, 2022 from 05:00pm — 06:00pm
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Gund Hall, Room 124, Graduate School of Design
Join Visiting Artist Fellows Aamina Nizar and Sharbendu De as they explore impacts of urban design and climate change in Sri Lanka and India. ‘An Elegy for Ecology’ by Sharbendu De imagines how humans can survive in the future in the wake of climate change. ‘The Colombo Project’ by Aamina Nizar imagines an […]
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Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 06:30pm
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Gund 111
Join us for a conversation with Christopher Charles Benninger [M’Arch ‘67], which will range from his experience at the GSD in the ’60s, working with Josep Lluís Sert, establishing the first planning school in India at CEPT and working in South Asia for over four decades.
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Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 09:00am
COST The event is free and open to all.
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CGIS South Concourse, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
This conference aims to bring a focused, though not exclusionary, lens to the study of the country, where in a regional context, Pakistan is overshadowed by its much larger neighbor.
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Register for the talk The Kinetic City (ArchiTangle, 2021) presents Rahul Mehrotra’s writings over the last thirty years and illustrates his long-term engagement with and analysis of urbanism in India. This work has given rise to a new conceptualization of the city. Mehrotra calls it the Kinetic City, a counterpoint to the Static City, as […]
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Tue, Nov 5, 2019 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm
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CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138
Economic corridors — ambitious infrastructural development projects throughout Asia and Africa — are dramatically redefining the shape of urbanization. As these corridors cut across croplands, the conversion of agricultural lands into new urban uses has erupted in volatile land conflicts. This talk will focus on urbanization along the first economic corridor built in India, the […]
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Mon, Oct 28, 2019 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm
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CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Urban conservation is often a pressing challenge in historic Indian cities experiencing the pressures of development. Many cities, often lacking any viable local-level policy and enforcement, have resorted to alternative tools, often citizen-led, to accomplish the goal of conservation. This seminar will explore the tools of advocacy, politics, and civic engagement through recent examples from the city of Lucknow in northern India.
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Thu, May 30, 2019 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm
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India International Centre
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India International Centre
#40, Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate
Delhi, India
In the past decade, over 1.3 million people have been killed in road crashes in India. Ten times more have been left seriously injured or permanently disabled. The issue has emerged as the single biggest killer of young people in India (15-45 age group). Given the multiplicity of agencies and overlapping responsibilities, where should the accountability […]
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Tue, Mar 26, 2019 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm
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CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Sripad Motiram, Associate Professor of Economics and Affiliated Faculty, Asian Studies Department, University of Massachusetts Boston Vamsi Vakulabharanam, Co-Director, Asian Political Economy Program (Political Economy Research Institute) and Associate Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst Sripad Motiram and Vamsi Vakulabharanam will discuss how space is structured in two Indian cities, Hyderabad and Mumbai, along […]
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Tue, Feb 26, 2019 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm
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CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
In her building and writing, architect Minnette de Silva sought to recreate a “felicitous community spirit” across social and cultural differences, as stated in her memoir — a text on the significant multi-family housing project her office undertook. In this event, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Assistant Professor of the Department of Architecture at Columbia University, will […]
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Wed, Mar 28, 2018 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm
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CGIS South, S250
Harvard University
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CGIS South, S250
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA
India’s National Capital Region now includes parts of four states and about 30 million people. It is in the vanguard of global urban change of a particular type—the rise of the colossal metropolis. What do we know and can say about its spatial structure (and change) and social structure (and change)? How well does existing “urban theory” prepare us for Delhi? To what extent does Delhi prepare us for a new “urban theory”? How much of it is global, how much Indian, and how much just Delhi itself?
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Wed, Feb 7, 2018 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm
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CGIS South, S050
Harvard University
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S050
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA
Drawing on fieldwork in a range of communities in Delhi, Heller documents inequity and exclusion within basic service distribution across the city.
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Tue, Oct 31, 2017 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm
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CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138
The film opens the discipline of architecture and filmmaking to self-critique and looks at the way that they imagine and construct a nation and its citizen.
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