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  • The City, a State of Mind?

    “The city is a state of mind,” writes Robert Park in 1915. If this is true, can we assume the city is no longer confined to geography, and thus able to exist in any location? The city isn’t the only state of mind. According to rapper Clyde Carson, California is also state of mind. Although…

  • A Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to Taramani

    A funny thing happened to me on the way to Taramani. I lost my research focus, met up with a bunch of film producers, and then re-found my theoretical direction! Over the past three months, I’ve been looking at the history and development of Taramani, a sum 2,000 acres of quasi-public land in South Chennai.…

  • Iconic Secular Traffic Calming

    It is dusk and the full moon gives a quiet glow to the street. The daytime noise of vehicle traffic is replaced by the gentle chaos of pedestrians feeding into the street to converse with neighbors. We are on an architectural walk through the streets of Velachery. At the junction of two residential streets is…

  • Works Cited

    The meticulous art of post-graduate source citing does not operate in India as it does in the other parts of the world. Many student theses in the School of Architecture and Planning do not contain a source page; Wikipedia is considered an acceptable footnote. I have gotten used to this and enjoy reaching the conclusion…

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