Read post by PI Ayona Datta on how the current COVID19 crisis will affect India’s small cities.
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PI 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.
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Read post by PI Ayona Datta which traces the planning applications for houses built by working classes since the late 19th century. These house biographies remind us that Shimla’s current tourist spectacle above is made possible because of the continued house building by the poor and working classes since the dawn of the Empire.
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Project 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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Research 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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