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DECAYING MODERNITIES
2014, Chandigarh, India, With Metaxia Markaki
Chandigarh the ville de Beton Brt celebrated its 50 years of completion recently. This photo series captures the city in perpetual decay and the aesthetic of decay. The hybidisation that the inhabitants are bringing to this city and how a pirate modernity is taking over the city.
DELHI
WITHOUT
BORDERS
لامحدود دہلی
असीमित दिल्ली
I contribute in a number of academic and non-academic journals and newspapers. Some of my papers, articles, and book chapters can be downloaded below with the suggested citation information.
UNEARTHING TRACES: Dismantling imperialist entanglements of archives, landscapes, and the built environment
Denise Bertschi, Julien Lafontaine Carboni, Nitin Bathla (eds.), 320 pages, March 2023, EPFL Press
Repair and Fix: Jason Moore and Raj Patel in conversation with Milica Topalovic, Alex Nehmer, and Nitin Bathla
The Great Repair, ARCH+, Nr. 250, December 2022, Berlin
PODCAST - Book review roundtable: Art & Climate Change
in Urban Political Podcast, The Podcast on Urban Theory, Research, and Activism, Berlin. November 22, 2022
Urban autopia: the architecture of car-oriented capitalism
The Architectural Review, Special Issue - ENERGY, Issue number - 1495, October 2022, Pages 84-88
An Excursion into the Fragments of the City
Book review forum: Fragments of the City: Making and Remaking Urban Worlds by Colin McFarlane, Society and Space, September 26, 2022
PODCAST - Dispatch from RC21 Conference 2022 – Ordinary cities in exceptional times
in Urban Political Podcast, The Podcast on Urban Theory, Research, and Activism, Berlin. September 12, 2022
PODCAST - Dispatch from INURA Conference 2022 in Luxemburg
in Urban Political Podcast, The Podcast on Urban Theory, Research, and Activism, Berlin. July 27, 2022
PODCAST - Book Review Roundtable: Fragments of the City: Making and Remaking Urban Worlds
in Urban Political Podcast, The Podcast on Urban Theory, Research, and Activism, Berlin. June 01, 2022
India’s highway revolution
The Architectural Review, Special Issue - TRANSIT, Issue number - 1491, May 2022, Pages 88-91
THE [SEASONAL] ARRIVAL CITY: Designing for migrants’ ‘transient right to the city’
Edited by Nitin Bathla & Jennifer Duyne Barenstein, ETH Wohnforum ETH Case, April 2022
Extended urbanisation and the politics of uncertainty: The contested pathways of highway corridors in India
The Geographical Journal, March 2022, Page 1-15
Planned illegality, permanent temporariness, and strategic philanthropy: tenement towns under extended urbanisation of postmetropolitan Delhi
Housing Studies Journal, November 2021, Pages 1-21
Reframing the contested city through ethnographic film: beyond the expository on housing and the urban
with Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou in International Journal of Housing Policy, March 2021. Pages - 1-16
PODCAST - Film-Making as Urban Research
in Urban Political Podcast, The Podcast on Urban Theory, Research, and Activism, Berlin. January 29, 2021
Radical Housing and Socially-engaged Art, Reflections from a tenement town in Delhi’s extensive urbanisation
with Sumedha Garg in Radical Housing Journal, Issue 2.2, December 2020. Pages - 35-54
Drawing as Counter-Cartography- Reflections on a Socially engage Art Project
with Sumedha Garg in Oase 107: The Drawing In Landscape Design And Urbanism, December 2020. Pages - 49-62
PODCAST - Mobilization and Advocacy in Massive Urbanization Contexts - Part I
in Urban Political Podcast, The Podcast on Urban Theory, Research, and Activism, Berlin. December 5, 2020
Decentring the Open City: Examining openness at the agrarian-urban frontiers in India
in TRIALOG 135, February 2020 Berlin. Pages - 15-19
Complexities and contradictions in Forensic Architecture
in TRANS 36. Spannung, February 2020, GTA Press, Zurich. Pages - 103-108
The metabolism of tenement towns on a planet of fast fashion
in OASE #104. The Urban Household of Metabolism, November 2019, nai010 Publishers, Rotterdam. Pages - 50-55
Housing the migrant worker
opinion column in The Indian Express, May 16, 2020
By sealing Delhi NCR borders, Covid has ended fluidity between where labourers live and work
with Mukta Naik, opinion column in The Print, May 25, 2019
The Delhi Mumbai Expressway is a shortcut to socio-ecological disaster
in The Wire, Environment. October 2019
AMO / Rem Koolhaas(ed.) 2020: Countryside: A Report. Cologne: Taschen
in IJURR Vol. 44 Number 5. September 2020, Wiley Pages - 945-946
Book review: Suburban Planet: Making the World Urban from the Outside In
in Urban Studies Journal #56. April 2019, SAGE Journals. Pages - 2179-2181
Sutradhar - The Emergent Social Designer?
in Co-Designing the City : Architecture + Informal Intelligence, November 2016, Alfred Herrhausen Society, Berlin. Pages - 102-105
Progress or 'Déjà Vu'?
in Minha Casa, Nossa Cidade, February 2014, Ruby Press, Berlin. Pages - 68-69
Access to housing versus access to the city
in Minha Casa, Nossa Cidade, February 2014, Ruby Press, Berlin. Pages - 72-74
Charged Voids: Ensuring quality open spaces
in Minha Casa, Nossa Cidade, February 2014, Ruby Press, Berlin. Pages - 200-219
Undoing the city of dichotomies - Rethinking social futures in the urban expansion zone of Rio de Janeiro
in Minha Casa, Nossa Cidade, February 2014, Ruby Press, Berlin. Pages - 221-225
Working Papers
Wasteland Governmentality: Extended Urbanisation, rewilding and the politics of nature
Built Enviornment
Transhumance Urbanism: Unintentional Landscapes of Extended Urbanisation
Critical Transductive Methodology
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