Podcast appearances and mentions of Rahul Mehrotra

Cities are that miraculous technology that bring people together to make us all better, richer, happier. But bad planning, or even too much planning, can turn them into hellholes. Pritika Hingorani joins Amit Varma in episode 361 of The Seen and the Unseen to share her insights on how we should think about cities, how governments do policy, and what economics can bring to urban planning. (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check out: 1. Pritika Hingorani at Artha Global and Twitter. 2. The Importance of Cities — Episode 108 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Reuben Abraham & Pritika Hingorani). 3. Global Health Impacts for Economic Models of Climate Change -- Pritika Hingorani and Vaidehi Tandel. 4. Financing urban infrastructure for an evolving India -- Pritika Hingorani, Sharmadha Srinivasan & Harshita Agrawal. 5. Reforming Urban India -- Pritika Hingorani et al. (Page 14 of this report has the map Pritika mentions in the episode.) 6. India Infrastructure Report: Making Housing Affordable -- Various authors. 7. Bombay: The Cities Within -- Sharada Dwiwedi and Rahul Mehrotra. 8. Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities -- Alain Bertaud. 9. The Death and Life of Great American Cities -- Jane Jacobs. 10. Norwegian Wood -- Haruki Murakami. 11. Absolutely on Music -- Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa. 12. Haruki Murakami and Ryu Murakami on Amazon. 13. Piercing -- Ryu Murakami. 14. Pranay Kotasthane Talks Public Policy -- Episode 233 of The Seen and the Unseen. 15. Population Is Not a Problem, but Our Greatest Strength — Amit Varma. 16. Miniature early episodes of The Seen and the Unseen on FSI and Rent Control with Alex Tabarrok, and Slums with Pavan Srinath. 17. The Mystery of Capital —  Hernando De Soto. 18. The Incredible Insights of Timur Kuran — Episode 349 of The Seen and the Unseen. 19. The Power Broker -- Robert Caro. 20. Urban expansion: theory, evidence and practice -- Shlomo Angel. 21. Atlas of Urban Expansion. 22. Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization -- Justin Marozzi. 23. The City and the City -- China Miéville. 24. The Faltering Escalator of Urban Opportunity -- David Autor. 25. The Shane Parrish tweet on WFH. 26. Securing the Home Market -- Alice Amsden. 27. The Elusive Quest for Growth -- William Easterly. 28. Participatory Democracy — Episode 160 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ashwin Mahesh). 29. Cities and Citizens — Episode 198 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ashwin Mahesh). 30. Helping Others in the Fog of Pandemic -- Episode 226 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ashwin Mahesh). 31. Parkinson's Law. 32. Karthik Muralidharan Examines the Indian State -- Episode 290 of The Seen and the Unseen. 33. We Are Fighting Two Disasters: Covid-19 and the Indian State — Amit Varma. 34. Urban Governance in India -- Episode 31 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan). 35. The Loneliness of the Indian Woman — Episode 259 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shrayana Bhattacharya). 36. The Skeptical Environmentalist — Bjorn Lomborg. 37. London 1870-1914: A City at Its Zenith -- Andrew Saint. 38. Modi's Lost Opportunity — ep 119 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Salman Soz). 39. Wanting — Luke Burgis. 40. Luke Burgis Sees the Deer at His Window — Episode 337 of The Seen and the Unseen. 41. We Should Celebrate Rising Divorce Rates (2008) — Amit Varma. 42. Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India's First Women in Medicine — Kavitha Rao. 43. Kavitha Rao and Our Lady Doctors — Episode 235 of The Seen and the Unseen. 44. The Memoirs of Dr Haimabati Sen — Haimabati Sen (translated by Tapan Raychoudhuri). 45. Living London History -- The blog Pritika mentions. 46. Good Bye, Lenin -- Wolfgang Becker. This episode is sponsored by the Pune Public Policy Festival 2024, which takes place on January 19 & 20, 2024. The theme this year is Trade-offs! Amit Varma and Ajay Shah have launched a new video podcast. Check out Everything is Everything on YouTube. Check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing. And subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It's free! Episode art: ‘These Are People' by Simahina.

The urbanist and founder of RMA Architects reflects on the importance of twinning practical work with academic research, as well as his continued participation in the Venice Architecture Biennale.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Cities have largely been imagined by architects and planners as permanent entities. Today, this basic assumption is being challenged as a result of the massive rise of “informalization”; dramatic shifts in global demographics; and the intensification of pilgrimage practices that more frequently construct temporal settlements for hosting massive gatherings. In this episode of ON CITIES, Rahul Mehrotra will explain this phenomena by way of his recent book The Kinetic City and other essays. He will also share the story of how his architectural office is expanding the definition of practice while grappling with some of the most challenging topics facing the development of cities throughout India and across the globe.

Cities have largely been imagined by architects and planners as permanent entities. Today, this basic assumption is being challenged as a result of the massive rise of “informalization”; dramatic shifts in global demographics; and the intensification of pilgrimage practices that more frequently construct temporal settlements for hosting massive gatherings. In this episode of ON CITIES, Rahul Mehrotra will explain this phenomena by way of his recent book The Kinetic City and other essays. He will also share the story of how his architectural office is expanding the definition of practice while grappling with some of the most challenging topics facing the development of cities throughout India and across the globe.

Urban Design is a discipline that forms a bridge between architecture and urban planning. Architecture examines three-dimensional form, culture, aesthetics and experience, but does not examine the urban scale, focusing primarily on individual land parcels. Urban Planning examines wider questions of the city, but tends to cast a two-dimensional gaze of policy abstractions. Urban Design seeks to combine the two, concerned about urban scale while also concerned about three-dimensional form and aesthetic/cultural experience. Urban Design works within the frame of Urban Planning, defining the quality, history and specificity of neighbourhoods. The three disciplines of Urban Planning, Urban Design and Architecture are meant to work in tandem, each affecting and informing the other, to lay down an ethical, social and cultural ideal of urban life. Urban Design is a discipline unrecognised and unimplemented in India, where officialdom views the city through a two-dimensional lens that imagines it as a techno-economic entity rather than a cultural or ecological entity. This episode of BIC Talks will reflect on what good urban design should be and examine key questions in this respect. What are the constituents of good urban form? What have we lost in our cities because of this shortcoming? Given that the discipline's protocols derive from the Western city, how should we view Urban Design in India so that we do not destroy the vibrance of informal urbanism? What steps should we take toward mainstreaming Urban Design in the Indian city? The panel consists of architects Brinda Somaya, Rahul Mehrotra, Neelkanth Chhaya and Prem Chandavarkar. This episode is adapted from a virtual discussion that took place in January 2022. Subscribe to the BIC Talks Podcast on your favourite podcast app! BIC Talks is available everywhere, including iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Overcast and Stitcher.  

Cities have largely been imagined by architects and planners as permanent entities. Today, this basic assumption is being challenged as a result of the massive rise of “informalization”; dramatic shifts in global demographics; and the intensification of pilgrimage practices that more frequently construct temporal settlements for hosting massive gatherings. In this episode of ON CITIES, Rahul Mehrotra will explain this phenomena by way of his recent book The Kinetic City and other essays. He will also share the story of how his architectural office is expanding the definition of practice while grappling with some of the most challenging topics facing the development of cities throughout India and across the globe.

Cities have largely been imagined by architects and planners as permanent entities. Today, this basic assumption is being challenged as a result of the massive rise of “informalization”; dramatic shifts in global demographics; and the intensification of pilgrimage practices that more frequently construct temporal settlements for hosting massive gatherings. In this episode of ON CITIES, Rahul Mehrotra will explain this phenomena by way of his recent book The Kinetic City and other essays. He will also share the story of how his architectural office is expanding the definition of practice while grappling with some of the most challenging topics facing the development of cities throughout India and across the globe.

Cities are evolving, living systems. Why then do we design them as fixed and permanent? Is it time for a new theory of urbanism, better suited to the developing world, where urban space is often used in transient ways?

What does a just society look like? Often, it's not about the things you notice first. A housing project might be built with every care paid to the needs of its future residents, but its impact will be limited if it doesn't also have good transportation links, or if it is sited downwind of a wastewater treatment facility and with no access to green space. In this episode of Design Now, we speak to people in and around Harvard's Graduate School of Design who are thinking about social justice at all scales. At one end, there are the huge structural factors that designers must contend with: government policy, the climate crisis, ingrained prejudice and discrimination within both practice and pedagogy. At the more personal end of the scale, we hear about the conversations that designers are having with private clients every day, encouraging them to consider interests other than their own and to “soften the threshold” between private and community spaces. Everyone featured in this episode has their own entry points and specialties, but they are united by a common thought: Designing for social justice is the work of a society, not any one individual. Featuring: Rahul Mehrotra, Daniel D'Oca, Mariam Kamara, Anita Berrizbeitia, Esesua Ikpefan Transcript DISCLAIMER: This episode was recorded in February, 2022. The guests' titles and their affiliation to the school were accurate at the time of recording. Show Notes 1:49 RMA Architects 4:20 Hathigaon housing project for Mahouts and their elephants, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India 4:48 Interboro Partners 7:32 Atelier Masōmī 12:50 The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion 15:40 California's ban on single-family zoning 19:57 Free route 23, 28, and 29 bus program - public transit as a public good 20:41 Washington State Transportation Bill of Rights 29:39 Becoming Urban - Research project by Rahul Mehrotra 30:00 Kinetic City - Book by Rahul Mehrotra About The show is produced by Maggie Janik and hosted by Harriet Fitch Little. For inquiries or to be featured on an upcoming episode, email designnow@gsd.harvard.edu.

Original broadcast date: November 15, 2020. Cities are never static; they can transform in months, years, or centuries. This hour, TED speakers explore how today's cities are informed by the past, and how they'll need to evolve for the future. Guests include archaeologist Alyssa Loorya, architects Marwa Al-Sabouni and Rahul Mehrotra, and landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom.

Original broadcast date: November 13, 2020. Cities are never static; they can transform in months, years, or centuries. This hour, TED speakers explore how today's cities are informed by the past, and how they'll need to evolve for the future. Guests include archaeologist Alyssa Loorya, architects Marwa Al-Sabouni and Rahul Mehrotra, and landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom.

In this episode of Talking Practice, host Grace La moderates a special roundtable, Practice in an Uncertain World. This informal event was recorded over zoom in May 2020, after the Harvard GSD evacuated its campus due to the COVID pandemic. The occasion gathered thirteen prominent architectural practitioners, who assembled on an early Saturday morning to share candid thoughts on the complexities of practice at this unprecedented moment. Featuring GSD faculty and alums, and representing different ages, geographic regions, and architectural practice type, the roundtable speakers include:  Jeffry Burchard, Elizabeth Christoforetti, Scott Cohen, Jeanne Gang, Eric Howeler, Grace La, Mark Lee, Rahul Mehrotra, Toshiko Mori, Paul Nakazawa, Lyndon Neri, Jacob Reidel, and Mack Scogin. The conversation reveals a broad spectrum of insights and experiences. From the structuring of a fledgling office to the value of diversifying project type, the guests communicate the means by which they survived past recessions.  They also discuss the importance of educating oneself outside the academy, acquiring “fitness” in new modes of thinking, and developing networks based on values and priorities. Spanning topics from the philosophical to the practical, they share their unique stories, advice, and reflections. About the Show Developed by Harvard Graduate School of Design, Talking Practice is the first podcast series to feature in-depth interviews with leading designers on the ways in which architects, landscape architects, designers, and planners articulate design imagination through practice.  Hosted by Grace La, Professor of Architecture and Chair of Practice Platform, these dynamic conversations provide a rare glimpse into the work, experiences, and attitudes of design practitioners from around the world. Comprehensive, thought-provoking, and timely, Talking Practice tells the story of what designers do, why, and how they do it—exploring the key issues at stake in practice today. About the Host Grace La is Professor of Architecture, Chair of the Practice Platform, and former Director of the Master of Architecture Programs at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.  She is also Principal of LA DALLMAN Architects, internationally recognized for the integration of architecture, engineering and landscape. Cofounded with James Dallman, LA DALLMAN is engaged in catalytic projects of diverse scale and type.  The practice is noted for works that expand the architect's agency in the civic recalibration of infrastructure, public space and challenging sites. Show Credits This special episode of Talking Practice is recorded and edited by Maggie Janik. Research, organization, and support for this episode is provided by John Wang.  Contact For all inquiries, please email practicepodcast@gsd.harvard.edu.

Cities are never static; they can transform in months, years, or centuries. This hour, TED speakers explore how today's cities are informed by the past, and how they'll need to evolve for the future. Guests include archaeologist Alyssa Loorya, architects Marwa Al-Sabouni and Rahul Mehrotra, and landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom.

Architects, educators and curators Rahul Mehrotra and Kaiwan Mehta talk to host Pavan Srinath about the ideas behind the ongoing State of Housing – Aspirations, Imaginaries and Realities in India exhibition at the Bangalore International Centre.  Rahul, Kaiwan and Ranjith Hoskote curated the State of Housing exhibition in 2018 as a traveling exhibition, which is now at BIC in Bangalore for the month of September, 2020. The naturally ventilated gallery is open to the public on all days. If you are in Bangalore and would like to schedule a visit, write to operations (at) bangaloreinternationalcentre (dot) org. Learn more about the exhibition at the BIC website, and you can also attend the online screening of the film ‘A Place to Live’ by Sanjay Shah on the website during the month of September, 2020.  On Episode 52 of BIC Talks, Rahul and Kaiwan discuss how State of Housing came about, what key questions the project seeks to answer, and they share glimpses of what various components of the exhibition offer to visitors – be they architects, people in government, urban governance researchers, or interested citizens and urban residents.   Rahul Mehrotra is an architect, urbanist and educator. He is Professor of Urban Design and Planning at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and is the Founder Principal of RMA Architects in Mumbai.  Kaiwan Mehta is a theorist and critic in the fields of visual culture, architecture, and city studies. He is the Managing Editor of the art and architecture magazine DOMUS India and is a faculty member at CEPT University in Ahmedabad.  The Exhibition is supported by RMZ Foundation, Brigade Group and Kohler. BIC Talks is brought to you by the Bangalore International Centre. Visit the BIC website for show notes, links and more information about the guests. 

The U.N. estimates that 70% of our global population will live on 2% of the land mass by 2050. In this age of urbanization, the spaces around us pose both a challenge and an opportunity.In episode one, we peel back the curtain with Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning at Harvard Graduate School of Design and Founder of Mumbai and Boston-based firm, RMA Architects, to discover solutions for the biggest urban design challenges facing our modern cities.

Rahul Mehrotra is a marine biologist originally from the UK and India, and who is currently based out of Thailand where he studies some of the most colorful and beautiful of all the sea creatures: sea slugs. Sea slugs are so captivating, in fact, that it was actually a photo of a type of sea slug, called a nudibranch, that catapulted Rahul’s interest from land animal conservation into the sea. Since then, Rahul has pursued researching the underwater world in the Gulf of Thailand, discovering and naming some of his own species.Join us as we dive into the colorful world of nudibranchs, learn about true ocean exploration and some of the amazing discoveries that Rahul is making, including uncovering a hidden diet of corals. We also chat about how you can get involved with ocean science, no matter where in the world you live.Support the show (http://patreon.com/marinebiolife)

In case you missed it: Raj Rewal and Rahul Mehrotra recently stopped by the Mittal Institute to discuss Rewal's past architectural work in India and around the world. This podcast — an excerpt from their discussion — delves into the theme of the "Timeless Rasa."

This week, we kick off our summer long Editor's Choice series! This week, we re-visit our conversations with Jeff Hou and Manish Chalana as well as Rahul Mehrotra to see if we can start to unpack what it is that makes a city vibrant! 

Cada 12 años, en el marco del festival religioso Kumbh Mela, se levanta una megaciudad en la India, donde lo que se construye en semanas se desmonta en una sola. ¿Qué enseñanzas nos deja este asentamiento transitorio que tiene todas las funcionalidades de una gran ciudad? En una visionaria charla, el urbanista Rahul Mehrotra habla de las ventajas de construir ciudades transitorias que pueden trasladarse, adaptarse o incluso desaparecer, con la premisa de dejar la menor huella posible en el planeta.

Tous les 12 ans, une mégapole apparaît en Inde pour le pèlerinage de la Kumba Mela – ce qui est construit en dix semaines est entièrement démonté en une semaine. Que pouvons-nous apprendre de cet aménagement temporaire qui fonctionne comme une ville classique ? Dans un discours visionnaire, l'urbaniste Rahul Mehrotra examine les avantages de construire des villes éphémères, qui peuvent voyager, s'adapter ou même disparaître, en laissant la plus faible empreinte possible sur notre planète.

Every 12 years, a megacity springs up in India for the Kumbh Mela religious festival -- what's built in ten weeks is completely disassembled in one. What can we learn from this fully functioning, temporary settlement? In a visionary talk, urban designer Rahul Mehrotra explores the benefits of building impermanent cities that can travel, adapt or even disappear, leaving the lightest possible footprint on the planet.

12년 마다 인도에선느 종교 행사인 쿰 메일라를 개최하기 위한 메가시티가 세워집니다. 건설 후 10주가 지나면 다시 해체되는 도시입니다. 이 효율적으로 작동하는 임시 정착지를 통해 우리는 무엇을 배울 수 있을까요? 도시 설계 디자이너 라울 메로트라는 지구에 가능한 가벼운 흔적을 남기면서 여행하고 사람을 수용하며, 해체도 가능한 비영구적인 도시 건설의 이점을 통찰력 있는 시선으로 이야기 합니다.

Every 12 years, a megacity springs up in India for the Kumbh Mela religious festival -- what's built in ten weeks is completely disassembled in one. What can we learn from this fully functioning, temporary settlement? In a visionary talk, urban designer Rahul Mehrotra explores the benefits of building impermanent cities that can travel, adapt or even disappear, leaving the lightest possible footprint on the planet.

Every 12 years, a megacity springs up in India for the Kumbh Mela religious festival -- what's built in ten weeks is completely disassembled in one. What can we learn from this fully functioning, temporary settlement? In a visionary talk, urban designer Rahul Mehrotra explores the benefits of building impermanent cities that can travel, adapt or even disappear, leaving the lightest possible footprint on the planet.

A cada 12 anos, surge uma megacidade na Índia para o festival religioso do Kumbh Mela, o que é construído em dez semanas é completamente desmontado em uma. O que podemos aprender com esse assentamento temporário e plenamente operacional? Em uma palestra visionária, o planejador urbano Rahul Mehrotra explora os benefícios de construir cidades temporárias que podem viajar, se adaptar ou até mesmo desaparecer, deixando a mínima pegada possível no planeta.

In this podcast I had the great pleasure of interviewing Rahul Mehrotra. Rahul is a practicing architect and educator, splitting his time between his professional practice in Mumbai, and teaching at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, where he is a professor and Director of Urban Design program. Rahul has executed a wide range of projects across India, and has also written, co-authored and edited dozens of books on Mumbai, its urban history, its historic buildings, public spaces and the planning process. In our podcast I talk with Rahul about the social and environmental purpose that underpin much of his work, as well the important insights he has gained from his research of the Kumbh Mela, and later explorations of impermanent habitations that may provide us with important understandings for how we might more effectively respond to future large-scale migrations of climate refugees. You can find show notes at: http://bit.ly/Rahul_Mehrotra Please Support this Podcast: The Twenty First Century Imperative podcast is ad-free and relies entirely on user support. If you find it valuable please consider supporting us by becoming a patron at our TFCI Patreon Page. 

  View of kumbh mela. SOURCE Felipe Vera We discuss kinetic architecture and ephemeral urbanism with Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). Topics include events like the kumbh mela, and its implications about thinking about temporality in contemporary practice; designing for obsolescence; immigration and identity; and India in the 21st century. Rahul is also principal of RMA Architects, Mumbai. 

There aren't many people who combine two distinct careers, both at the very highest level. But Rahul Mehrotra manages to runs a successful architecture firm in India and is also senior faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In this episode, the first in our series of short interviews with South Asia-focused Harvard faculty, Professor Mehrotra talks about an exhibition of his architectural work, his future plans and also India's severe housing problems.

Are you proud of your buckets and combs? Is a cup culture-specific? What's typical? Are objects a part of your identity? Can empathy be created? Can buildings foster (multidimensional) equity? What is bad design? Do the best designs (try to) do many things simultaneously? Does a challenging design problem always involve trade-offs and incentive conflicts? How do evolving needs, preferences, and available resources lead to new categories? Why do non information intensive products (such as debt) catering to perennial needs stay central for a very long time? How sharp or fuzzy are the boundaries between different products? Why don't we have labels for everything? Do we reduce the complexity of the world by creating affordances and categories? Is design always particular to a context? Are the best designs aware of the context of the context? What makes designs robust? Are income tax systems also influenced by norms of culture and identity? Are markets culturally neutral? Can designs enable transitions? Will we (even) be designing for particular needs in the future? How can self-regulating non-manipulative infrastructure be created; would community formation play a key role? Is the future of design ecological? SynTalk thinks about these & more questions using concepts from design (Prof. Uday Athavankar, IIT Bombay, Mumbai), mechanism design (Prof. Praveen Kumar, University of Houston, Texas), & architecture (Prof. Rahul Mehrotra, Harvard University, Massachusetts). Listen in…