The sustainable cities workshop I was scheduled to conduct from November 18 to 22 at Somaiya Vidyavihar, Mumbai, has been postponed to December. More details soon.

On Indian modernity ‘whitespace’ and a call for "recognizing its presence and effect" in the way it implicates space in India. (By Himanshu Burte, India Seminar): india-seminar.com/2022/750/750-H…

We are pleased to invite you to a book discussion on Framing Delhi through its Metro system Ft. Rashmi Sadana, Kalpana Viswanath, Himanshu Burte, rohit negi, Sarika Panda Bhatt. Moderated by Mukta Naik. Wed, 6th April 2022 6:30 PM IST via Zoom Register here, zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Essay: Unbuilding Design "Every buildable unbuilt design sustains the contradiction between ‘pure design’ and the messiness of reality that produces it, which it must navigate and alter, and which may defeat it occasionally." - Himanshu Burte unbuiltideas.com/unbuilding-des… #architecture

READ: Blueprint, The Works of Gautam Bhatia "The Works of Gautam Bhatia, is an artist’s testimony about his work, nothing more and nothing less. For that reason alone, it is an unusually welcome event in Indian architectural discourse." - Himanshu Burte ow.ly/I1oR50JScLb

The Quiet Violence of the Remaking of Mumbai | Himanshu Burte Amita Bhide, Lalitha Kamath, and Ratoola Kundu on makebreak TISS - Tata Institute of Social Sciences buff.ly/3S9bZKR

Have you wondered about the human cost of the (patchily) shiny transformation of Mumbai in the last few decades? Read our little essay and do see our exhibition makebreak.tiss.edu

.CPR India Urban in collaboration with Writing Urban India Collective is launching the 2nd round of 'Writing Urban India Fellowship' for early stage researchers to advance publishable writing on urbanisation in India. Applications open soon. Stay Tuned!

Apply!

Deadline, round the corner!

A wonderful opportunity for scholars with papers just waiting to be written.

This was so enjoyable and enriching! Yes, we need more such workshops to help good research in India get published. There's lots of it out there. Thanks to fab young scholars and co-mentors Karen Coelho Anant Maringanti Lalitha Kamath and Lakshmi Subramanian for a great time!

City 27.3-4: Special Feature - Free Access Mustafa Kemal Bayırbağ, Seth Schindler & Mehmet Penpecioğlu Structural violence and the urban politics of hope in Ankara, Turkey doi.org/10.1080/136048…

Faculty Forum of IIT Bombay protests targeting of a faculty member with unbiased allegation and for publicly tarnishing of reputation. IIT Bombay theindiaforum.in/forum/protest-…

The next Publics@IIHS brings together the editors and chapter contributors of the special feature, 'The structural violence of spatial transformation: urban development and the more-than-neoliberal state in the Global South', curated for City Journal.

An upcoming panel on our recent special feature in CITY on the structural violence of spatial transformation of cities in the global south. Thanks Indian Institute for Human Settlements for hosting it! Lalitha Kamath Mehmet Penpecioğlu Seth Schindler