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Medieval Cities vs Modern Cities by Palak Bhatia

Rethinking The Future — Fri, 01 May 2020 05:34:18 +0000

Could the medieval cities have fought the pandemic better than our modern city planning? Our history manifests that epidemics powerfully influence the “physical fabric” of cities around the world. Part of the history of urbanization is building and managing your way out of infectious diseases. Some of the most iconic developments in urban planning and [...]

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Medieval Cities vs Modern Cities by Sneha Tiwari

Rethinking The Future — Fri, 01 May 2020 05:18:54 +0000

Could medieval cities have fought the current pandemic better than the current city planning? The world as we know it today has been shaped by its own history generating a global identity that we now decipher as our own. On one hand, we have been fighting our battle with climate change created by our past, [...]

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Medieval Cities vs Modern Cities by Aditi Jain

Rethinking The Future — Fri, 01 May 2020 05:01:16 +0000

“Today Cities aren’t horrible. Cities are fundamentally unhealthy.” More than half the world’s population lives in cities, hubs for transnational business, and movement with the potential to amplify pandemic risk. Cities with a high congregation of urban poor and deep disparities are potentially more vulnerable than those that are better resourced, less crowded, and more [...]

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Do We Need To Redefine Our Heritage by Twinkle Tolani

Rethinking The Future — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:14:52 +0000

“They are traditions, dear”, my mother said, as I rolled my eyes at her the umpteenth time that day. We were at a temple in my town, carrying out a ceremony that would bring peace into our family, allegedly. Honorable Mention | RTF Essay Writing Competition April 2020 Category: Do We Need To Redefine Our [...]

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Do We Need To Redefine Our Heritage by Zulda Arroyo

Rethinking The Future — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:45:37 +0000

Pandemic is showing us how different our new normal will be and how many changes are about to happen. Post pandemic time will be full of uncertainty and we will be focused on the global economic crisis as well as climate change and how to keep mother nature alive as it turned when the cities [...]

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Do We Need To Redefine Our Heritage by Vidhi Wadhawan

Rethinking The Future — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:29:05 +0000

Of all things one must know to survive, the need to know where one comes from only torments the Human. We’re scrambling for theories in faith and science. And so we recognize the need to pass and preserve any relics that remain that document this tremendous journey from the Big Bang to the Human Genome [...]

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Adaptive Reuse As A Way Forward by Saisha Monga

Rethinking The Future — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:17:00 +0000

To quote the famous architect Daniel Libeskind, “To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.” Heritage buildings act as doors to the past and contain the essence of the ideas and beliefs of the people. They stand as symbols of the grandeur and splendor of the rulers of yore. These [...]

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Adaptive Reuse As A Way Forward by P. Karpagam

Rethinking The Future — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:13:11 +0000

It is a fact that the second major air polluting industry is the construction industry which contributes up to 8% of the total carbon dioxide emission of the world. This number is expected to see a hair-rising increase in the coming years. We have been creating buildings and discarding it without considering its detrimental effect [...]

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Adaptive Reuse As A Way Forward by Kanchi Parmar

Rethinking The Future — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:06:55 +0000

Namuh was eighteen, so was his friend, When they had come to visit a full- time monk, To gain the sutras, teachings of Mahayana. They had escaped the tiles of porcelain, to sit on a rickety wooden floor, Of a stilt house on a lake, which bore no furniture. He fixed his eyes in front, [...]

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Adaptive Reuse As A Way Forward by B.Steffi

Rethinking The Future — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:05:31 +0000

What is the history of the building, why is it interesting and valuable and how can it become part of a new identity? What is the next chapter in the building’s story? What are the key physical elements and ideas necessary to tell this new chapter? How, through art, design, architecture and the guest experience, will [...]

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