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.
Read MoreRead 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.
Read MoreProfessor Sanjay Srivastava, project India Principal Investigator and Professor of Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University, introduces his previous work related to our project research themes as part of his British Academy Visiting Fellowship 2018 project entitled ‘Satellite Mapping, Big Data and the Politics of Space at the Margins of the Indian City’.
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