The inclusion of Nashik into India's 100 Smart City Mission marks a crucial moment in the city's imagination of reconciling traditional and modern elements of its identity. In this storymap, we present the lessons from Nashik through the themes of imagining, governing, and living urban futures.
Read MorePI Ayona Datta argues that our access to urban history is now determined by algorithms programmed to recognise the past as a repository of maps and images on the web. This has transformed the way that the urban poor ‘see’ the city, see themselves in the city and thus imagine possible futures for themselves.
Read MoreResearch Assistant, Shilpa Dahake, introduces Nashik and the ongoing Smart City Project in detail. Specifically, she elaborates on the effects brought about by the Smart Road Project, as well as the sentiments shared by the locals of the area through her interactions with them during her fieldwork.
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