Discussion with Rahul Mehrotra, MAUD ’87, Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, and Hitesh Hathi, AM ’97, GSA ’88, producer for Here & Now.

A Collaborative Studio and Research Project, Spring 2011

Rahul Mehrotra, Chair of Urban Planning and Design at Harvard Graduate School of Design, provided the leadership for this studio and research project with collaboration from
Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Business School, Real Estate Academic Initiative at Harvard University and the Loeb Fellowship at the Graduate School of Design.

Speaker: Professor Rahul Mehrotra

This event was recorded on 18 May 2010 in Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Mumbai, a Kinetic City, presents a compelling vision that potentially allows us to better understand the blurred lines of contemporary urbanism and the changing roles of people and spaces in urban society. An architecture or urbanism of equality in an increasingly inequitable economic condition requires looking deeper to find a wide range of places to mark and commemorate the cultures of those excluded from the spaces of global flows. These don’t necessarily lie in the formal production of architecture, but often challenge it. Here the idea of a city is an elastic urban condition, not a grand vision, but a grand adjustment.