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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.

Journal Article: Nature and the extended city: Wasteland governmentality, the sacred, and anti-wasteland politics in the Aravalli region
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, July 2023, Page 1-20


Journal Article: Inhabiting the extensions

Dialogues in Human Geography, May 2023, SAGE Journals, Pages 1-23


Podcast: Book Review Forum: How Cities Can Transform Democracy

in Urban Political Podcast, The Podcast on Urban Theory, Research, and Activism, Berlin. July, 2023  


Podcast: Book Review Roundtable: Migrants and Machine Politics
in Urban Political Podcast, The Podcast on Urban Theory, Research, and Activism, Berlin. June, 2023  


Book Review: The architecture of social reform: housing, tradition, and German modernism

in Housing Studies Journal #38. April 2023, Routledge. Pages - 744-746


Book: 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



Article: 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  



Article: Urban autopia: the architecture of car-oriented capitalism
The Architectural Review, Special Issue - ENERGY, Issue number - 1495, October 2022, Pages 84-88


Book Review: 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  



Article: India’s highway revolution
The Architectural Review, Special Issue - TRANSIT, Issue number - 1491, May 2022, Pages 88-91


Book: 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


Journal Article: Extended urbanisation and the politics of uncertainty: The contested pathways of highway corridors in India
The Geographical Journal, March 2022, Page 1-15


Journal Article: Planned illegality, permanent temporariness, and strategic philanthropy: tenement towns under extended urbanisation of postmetropolitan Delhi
Housing Studies Journal, November 2021, Pages 1-21



Journal Article: 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  



Journal Article: 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


Article: 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  


Article: Decentring the Open City: Examining openness at the agrarian-urban frontiers in India
in TRIALOG 135, February 2020 Berlin. Pages - 15-19


Article: Complexities and contradictions in Forensic Architecture
in TRANS 36. Spannung, February 2020, GTA Press, Zurich. Pages - 103-108


Article: 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


Opinion piece: Housing the migrant worker
opinion column in The Indian Express, May 16, 2020


Opinion piece: 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


Opinion Piece: The Delhi Mumbai Expressway is a shortcut to socio-ecological disaster
in The Wire, Environment. October 2019


Book Review: 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



Book Chapter: Sutradhar - The Emergent Social Designer?
in Co-Designing the City : Architecture + Informal Intelligence, November 2016, Alfred Herrhausen Society, Berlin. Pages - 102-105


Book Chapter: Progress or 'Déjà Vu'?
in Minha Casa, Nossa Cidade, February 2014, Ruby Press, Berlin. Pages - 68-69


Book Chapter: Access to housing versus access to the city
in Minha Casa, Nossa Cidade, February 2014, Ruby Press, Berlin. Pages - 72-74


Book Chapter: Charged Voids: Ensuring quality open spaces
in Minha Casa, Nossa Cidade, February 2014, Ruby Press, Berlin. Pages - 200-219


Book Chapter: 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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