Courting the Median

I’ll leave you with images of pedestrian uses in two radically different pedestrian realm within a streetscape. One driven by desperation and other a conscious work of street design. The first one is of 11th Avenue in Ashok Nagar, Chennai and the other from the boulevard adjacent to Bibotheque Francois Mitterand in Paris. [...]

HITEC City & Fortress Urbanism

I would rather call it HITEC Enclave. HITEC City – Hyderabad Information Technology Engineering Consultancy City is located in Madapur suburb of Hyderabad, is one of the prototypical low points of Tech-Park urbanism, which is nothing but a cluster of giant footplate, gated, air-conditioned building complexes hermetically sealed and ceremonially cordoned off from rest of [...]