| heritage and conservation

ADDRESSING PARADOXES
Review by A.G.K. Menon
LA 71
The book brings to forefront many challenges of the field of architecture and heritage conservation, which explores complex position in these contexts, of adopting a visionary spirit that respects the past and at the same time is responsive towards the needs of contemporary times.
One of the paradoxes of our society’s engagement with its cultural heritage is that, while in the abstract, we proudly identify with it as evidence of our civilizational achievements, in pragmatic terms, this attachment is not translated into effective policies or practices to conserve it for future generations. Arguably, this may even have contributed significantly to its steady attrition. For example, we routinely eulogize the antiquity and sophistication of ‘living’ historic cities – Varanasi, Ujjain, Madurai, and the hundreds of original cores of modern cities – but the imperatives to conserve them is a notable blind spot in modern urban planning. As a consequence, for decades historic precincts have borne the brunt of uncontrolled urbanization and unplanned development, which have reduced them to the decrepit state they are in today. Typically, the Master Plan of Delhi identified the pre eminent Mughal city of Shahjahanabad as a slum to be razed and redeveloped.



 


| nature in the city

RECLAIMING DEGRADED PUBLIC SPACE
In conversation with Latika Thukral


WEAVING GREEN CONNECTIONS
ACROSS SOCIO-ECONOMIC
AND TOPOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES |
BADSHAHPUR FOREST CORRIDOR | GURUGRAM
Tvara Sharma


DESIGN, EDUCATION AND ENVIRONMENT
NOIDA BIODIVERSITY PARK | NOIDA
Sachin Jain

| about sustainability

BRIDGING THE GAP
Akshay Kaul


RETHINKING THE LANDSCAPE OF LAWNS
Uma Sekar


| heritage and conservation

ADDRESSING PARADOXES
HERITAGE CONSERVATION IN POSTCOLONIAL INDIA | APPROACHES AND CHALLENGES
Review by A.G.K. Menon


VALUES, AUTHENTICITY AND MEANING
CONSERVING THE SPIRIT OF A HISTORIC GARDEN
Review by Nikhil Dhar


| rural discourse

PARABLES OF AN UNADDRESSED AGENDA
EVERYBODY LOVES A GOOD DROUGHT |
STORIES FROM INDIA’S POOREST DISTRICTS
Review by Sriganesh Rajendran


| seeing the unseen

THE GARDEN STORIES
Vaidehi Bhagwat


DECIPHERING THE HIDDEN LINKS
BETWEEN LANDSCAPE & WELL-BEING

FLASH FICTION COMPETITION
ISOLA Mumbai Chapter


| with nature

TO BELONG TALIESIN WEST, ARIZONA
Ajit Nagpurkar



























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