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Shinjini Saha
SHINJINI SAHA architect | urban designer | urban researcher I identify myself as an impulsive writer before anything else. Bridging silence with words and words with ideas is my preferred mode of communication. An aimless traveller and incidental photographer at heart, my interest in observing the everyday-ness supersedes my passion for Urban Design. I believe an urban designer is a story-teller through people, places and spaces. Making sense of the pandemonium (read- cities), communicating and advocating for a better tomorrow, if not a perfect one.
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The Gurugram millennium city model was viewed as the ideal and sought-after scenario for as long as one can remember after it’s conception. Its’s story from an erstwhile sleepy village to a real estate hub with expatriate investments has been told often, optimistically and admirably. Till of course the city choked in its own manner […]
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How many of us discuss everyday movement with pleasure? Talk about our unavoidable two to three hours of daily commute with comfort and delight. If we travel by private vehicles then we discuss traffic, if we travel by public modes of transport, we discuss the excess crowd. And if you reside in parts where the […]
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Settlements were the spaces between wilderness, interweaving the anthropocentric principles closely with the ecological ones. The reversal of this situation that we have witnessed over time where the greens instead became spaces between settlements bear testimony to the drastic shift in prioritizing urbanization over environmental preservation. The loss of biodiversity has not necessarily stemmed from […]
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The relationship between climate change and emissions is a discussion that requires no sparks. A considerable percentage of which is the consequence of our movement corridors.  Dependency on motorized modes ironically stems from access and/or the lack of it. Nothing makes the city more accessible, than the ability to move around unopposed and unhindered. That […]
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