Contents
PREFACE
ARTICLES
1. ARTICLES: THE MAKING OF THE MAXIMUM CITY —Rohan Varma
2. ARTICLES: PUBLIC TRANSPORT AS DNA —Charles Correa
3. ARTICLES: REMAKING MUMBAI —Rahul Mehrotra
4. ARTICLES: FACTS AND FIGURES —Timo Cents
INTERVIEWS
5. INTERVIEWS: APPRECIATING THE UNCONTROLLED AND THE UNEXPECTED —Steven Beunder
6. INTERVIEWS: EVERY BUILDING MUST SHOUT —Hafeez Contractor
7. INTERVIEWS: HOUSING 100,000 PEOPLE AT A TIME —Deodhar Associates
8. INTERVIEWS: ORGANIC FARMING IN THE CONCRETE JUNGLE —Adrienne Thadani
9. INTERVIEWS: A NEW LIGHT ON MUMBAI —Bas Losekoot
10. INTERVIEWS: ARCHITECTURE EDUCATION AS A KEY TO APPROPRIATE DEVELOPMENT —Rajiv Mishra
11. INTERVIEWS: INSTILLING A PASSION FOR ARCHITECTURE —Abhijit Mandrekar
12. INTERVIEWS: THE NEXT GENERATION —Mumbai’s Young Architects
13. INTERVIEWS: FROM THE NETHERLANDS TO INDIA… AND BEYOND —Shyam Khandekar
14. INTERVIEWS: ACTIVISM AND ARCHITECTURE —PK Das
15. INTERVIEWS: THE ARCHITECT AS A GUARDIAN OF THE PUBLIC REALM —Brinda Somaya
16. INTERVIEWS: THE CITY IS YOUR CANVAS —The Wall Project
17. INTERVIEWS: SOCIALLY AND ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIOUS ARCHITECTURE —Robert Verrijt and Shefali Balwani
18. INTERVIEWS: FROM QUANTITY TO QUALITY —Ravi Sarangan
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS —Pelle Poiesz and Gert Jan Scholte
About the Publication
Opening with the reflections of Indian architects Rohan Varma, Charles Correa and Rahul Mehrotra on the past, present and future of architecture and planning in Mumbai, the book continues with interviews with a wide variety of loc... Read More
About the Author
Dutch architects Pelle Poiesz and Gert Jan Scholte studied architecture at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and at Sir J.J. College of Architecture in Mumbai. Each now has their own architectural firm—hp architec... Read More
