Portals

Instructor: Shankar Ramaswami (Dept. of South Asian Studies) Spring 2015 This course will explore the lives, politics, and cosmologies of working-class persons in modern India. The course will examine contemporary debates on globalization, development...

Instructor: Shankar Ramaswami (Dept. of South Asian Studies) Spring 2015 This course will examine imaginaries and understandings of class and cities in Indian cinema. How are struggles for earnings and mobility in the city – of migrants, workers, and...

Instructor: Anand Vaidya and Ajantha Subramanian Spring 2015 Despite great efforts, scientists and activists have found themselves unable to bring about political changes that might reverse environmental degradation. This degradation has been caused by...

Instructor: Rahul Mehrotra and Martha Chen (Harvard Kennedy School) Spring 2015 Small-scale manufacturing in workshops and homes, small-scale trading on street corners or makeshift markets, car guarding, waste collecting, among a myriad of informal...

Instructor: Rahul Mehrotra, with contributions by Marta Chen Spring 2011 A Collaborative Studio and Research Project — Rahul Mehrotra, Chair of Urban Planning and Design at Harvard Graduate School of Design, provided the leadership for this studio and...

Instructor: Tarun Khanna (Harvard Business School) Ongoing course offering South Asia is home to two of the world’s seven billion people. The primary objective of the course is to engage students with the modern day challenges affecting South Asia, and to...

Instructor: Sibel Bozdogan and Cemal Kafadar Course: STAGING THE CITY: URBAN FORM AND PUBLIC LIFE IN ISTANBUL Students: Sera Tolgay and Maria Letizia Garzoli Transformation and Persistence of Public and Private Edges along the Bosphorus Shoreline: Tracing...

Instructor: Course: Students: Alexandra Courcoulas AN INTERACTIVE VISUAL HISTORY OF TOPHANE historymaps.meteor.com After an initial auction was nullified by the Turkish state in 2005, on May 16, 2010 it was announced that Dogus Holding – with a $702...

Instructor: Sibel Bozdogan and Cemal Kafadar Course: STAGING THE CITY: URBAN FORM AND PUBLIC LIFE IN ISTANBUL Students: Marysol Rivas Brito https://issuu.com/marysol.rivas.brito/docs/wet_politics_research Since the beginning of civilization, water supply...