Nostalgia for the Future
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Tue, Oct 31, 2017 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
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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Understanding India’s New Approach to Spatial Planning and Development
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Fri, Sep 8, 2017 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
A South Asia Institute Urbanization Seminar Series: “Understanding India’s New Approach to Spatial Planning and Development” Sanjeev Vidyarthi Author; Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Policy, The University of Illinois at Chicago Moderated by Rahul Mehrotra Professor of Urban Planning and Design and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of […]
More InfoPipe Politics: Mumbai’s Contested Waters
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Mon, Nov 14, 2016 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Urbanization Seminar Lisa Bjorkman, Assistant Professor of Urban and Public Affairs, University of Louisville Chair: Sai Balakrishnan, Assistant Professor in Urban Planning, Harvard University Graduate School of Design In the Indian city of Mumbai, two dazzling decades of urban development and roaring economic growth have presided over the steady deterioration – and sometimes spectacular breakdown – of the city’s […]
More InfoUrbanization in South Asia: Conversations from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
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Mon, Oct 17, 2016 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Urbanization Seminar Dr. A Ravindra, Chairman, Institute for Social & Economic Change, Bangalore Adnan Morshed, Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning, the Catholic University of America Mubbashir Rizvi, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Georgetown University Chair: Sai Balakrishnan, Assistant Professor in Urban Planning, Harvard University Graduate School of Design This panel brings together three urban scholars […]
More InfoTechno-networks and Urban Space in Bombay Cinema
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Tue, Apr 5, 2016 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Urbanization Seminar Ranjani Mazumdar, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design This paper looks at the role of media and communication technologies in the imagination of urban spaces in contemporary Bombay cinema. If surveillance practices and their resultant structuring becomes one part of this imagination (No […]
More InfoIndia: the Urban Transition
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Mon, Mar 28, 2016 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Urbanization Seminar Henrik Valeur, Architect-Urbanist, Founder and Creative Director of UiD Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design Can India use urbanization as a driver of economic, human and social development like China has done? How can Indian cities be made more inclusive, productive and livable? Are there any […]
More InfoCaste in the time of globalization
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Wed, Mar 9, 2016 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Urbanization Seminar Narendar Pani, Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India Chair: Sai Balakrishnan, Assistant Professor in Urban Planning, Harvard University Graduate School of Design The challenge of combating caste discrimination in India has generated two quite different approaches. There has been a radical view that the caste system can be made to disappear through, […]
More InfoRe-thinking Local: A Cross-regional Dialogue about Strategies for Local Practice in Cities
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Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 06:30pm, ET —
Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 02:30pm, ET
Student Event “Re-thinking Local” will examine how architects are developing new models of locally-based design practice given the changing realities of urbanization around the world, with a particular focus on South and Southeast Asia. These two public events feature Vo Trong Nghia, the most prolific contemporary architect in Vietnam, and Marina Tabassum, the leading female architect […]
More InfoThe Capitals of Postcolonial Pakistan: Urbanism as a discourse of Territorial Selfhood
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Mon, Nov 9, 2015 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Urbanization Seminar Farhan Karim, Assistant Professor The University of Kansas, School of Architecture, Design, and Planning Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design In the two decades following the creation of Pakistan, the government embarked on a lofty project to establish Muslim nationalism as a two pronged symbol: a […]
More InfoDevelopment, Dissent and Architecture in the building of Modern India
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Tue, Oct 27, 2015 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Urbanization Seminar Peter Scriver, Centre for Asian and Middle-Eastern Architecture (CAMEA), University of Adelaide Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design In Jawaharlal Nehru’s strategic vision for India’s postcolonial modernization and development, the architecture and urbanism of Chandigarh, the new Punjab State Capital, was of ‘enormous importance’. ‘It hits […]
More InfoPlanning for Conservation: Looking at Agra
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Wed, May 6, 2015 from 09:00am — 06:00pm, ET
Extreme Urbanism 3 Studio Review with the Participation of The Loeb Fellows Faculty: Rahul Mehrotra Teaching Associate: Jose Mayoral Moratilla Teaching Assistant: Vineet Diwadkar Open to the public
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Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 06:00pm, ET
What is the role of the Ephemeral City in the broader discussion about urbanism globally? Professor Rahul Mehrotra, Chair of the Department of Urban Planing and Design (GSD), will moderate a conversation across disciplines about ephemerality in the landscapes of South Asian and Latin American cities. The panel will feature Harvard scholars Felipe Hernandez (GSD), Marianne […]
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