Research

Animals reveal hidden urban ecologies, showing how cities function as shared habitats shaped by planning choices.

Chennai’s last major wetland shows how labelling marshes as wastelands enables ecological loss and urban vulnerability.

Nochikuppam once ran on care, proximity, and everyday labour long before masterplans arrived. This article looks at how planning broke a working system and what the city still refuses to learn from it.

A once-living river reshaped into an urban drain, revealing how planning failures and social exclusion flow together.

Encroachment and broken governance around Velachery Lake amplify flooding, exposing the cost of ignoring catchment-based planning.

A stormwater channel turned marginal space, where infrastructure decisions deepen ecological damage and social inequality.

Engineered drainage replaces living systems, questioning whether concrete solutions can ever restore urban water resilience.

A non-fiction glimpse into Ennore’s intertwined landscapes and lives, revealing resilience amid exploitation and echoes.

Chennai’s garbage mountains hide injustice. Can reimagined public spaces transform waste into collective responsibility?

When citizens understand urban systems, knowledge becomes power, enabling better decisions and stronger collective action.

Marina’s hybrid third space reveals the contested relationship between colonial legacies, cultural identity, spatial power, and the right to public space.

India’s Smart Cities promise progress, but commodify democracy, and inclusion