The inclusion of Shimla into India's 100 Smart City Mission marks a crucial moment in the city's imagination of reconciling its imperial history and cultural heritage with its new identity as ‘clean, serene and vibrant’. In this storymap report we present the lessons from Shimla through the themes of imagining, governing, and living urban futures.
Read MoreProject PI Ayona Datta introduces Shimla, through the paradoxes of speed, time and slowness in the future smart city. While Shimla dreams of a smart urban future, the everyday life in its informal settlements along the shifting sliding hill slopes reminds us that this dream needs to adjust to the slow contoured life of the hills.
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