Traditional Wisdom
A Post Colonial Paradigm of Universal Interest | Narendra Dengle
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Cultural Landscapes of South Asia: Studies in Heritage Conservation and Management
Author: Kapila D. Silva and Amita Sinha
Published: Routledge, New York, 2017
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Conservation has become a major issue in dealing with city development plans. With the varying contexts of the different timeframes of existence of the city, one sees different schools of thought emerge that tend to guide the masses down different directions of sustainability perceptions and development ideals.
With the architectural notions, thus, being a subject of time, this discord in ideas must be resolved or atleast acknowledged to allow the notion of heritage to achieve some level of inclusivity in designing, Moreover, the gap between the perception of sustainability and the implementation of conservation needs to be bridged if one wants to allow the cultural landscape to be preserved.
The book is part of a series termed Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design which includes academic monographs for scholars working in the disciplines that overlap to cover the wide ranging issues of landscape, culture, and environmental design.
The two editors and ten contributors with a background in academics in India and US have contributed papers from their rich experience in field studies and practice from six countries of South Asia. Rahul Mehrotra, in the prologue emphasises the importance of the book as an effort to find a strategic engagement base for the conservation movement and a conservation theory that is critical in its approach.
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| Conservation has become a major issue in dealing with city development plan anywhere in the world combining tangible and intangible issues where landscape becomes perhaps the most important layer. The major concern has been the varied pallet of imagination of the past-present and future, which drives citizens, bureaucrats, politician, and the so-called futuristic builders of economy in different directions. This complexity of imagery of time brings multiplicity in perception of sustainability, conservation and their impact on the development plans of cities. Past and future are seen as adversaries by many. So the battle is between a past and a future-both imagined and hence often far from the reality that is the present. For the developing world the future is too often an emulation of a pattern from the developed world while the past is a romantic nostalgia for an antiquated culture to get lost into.
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exhibition
ArvindTalati: A forgotten pioneer of Modern Indian Architecture
reports
IGBC's Green Landscape Summit 2016
Changing Climates, Evolving Landscapes, Isola-Goa 2017
Landscape and Conservation, SKNCOA-Pune, 2017
public participation
Public Participation in Design Works:
The Nimby, Banana and Lulu Syndromes
Harshad Bhatia
learning from the past
Clues on Street Network from Manasara:
Footpath or Sidewalks are not a British Legacy to India
Archana Sharma
directions
Going Forward: Landscape Architecture in India
Alpa Nawre
view from within
Identities and Boundaries
Geeta Wahi Dua
profile
Aesthetics, Utility and Environment: Practice of Ravi
Varsha Gavandi, Pune
competition
Redesigning Maharashtra Nature Park, Mumbai
landscape design
Transforming Urban Landscapes: Futala Lake, Nagpur
Deeproots Design
Revitalisation Of Derelict Urban Spaces:
Bundh Rejuvenation and Eco-Restoration of Urban Forest, Gurugram
VSPB Associates
Mana Resort, Ranakpur, Rajasthan
Parul Kiri Roy
Swastik Vatika: Marriage Venue, Anand
Karmavir Ghatge & Associates
Clover Fields: Weekend Home, Bangalore
Genesis Architecture
seeing the unseen
Panchtattvas: The Road Ahead
Dilpreet Bhullar
book review
An Inspiring Visual Reference
Book: #91 Residences Contemporary Indian Houses #3
review by Madhu Pandit
A Post-Colonial Paradigm of Universal Interest
Book: Cultural Landscapes of South Asia:
Studies in Heritage Conservation and Management
review by Narendra Dengle
landscape industry
Outdoor Lighting
Steve L. Aries
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