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Transformation And Persistence Of Public And Private Edges Along The Bosporus Shoreline

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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...

The Circulation of URBAN Planning Ideas in the Americas, Post-WW

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This project discusses how ideas regarding urban planning circulated between North and South America between the 1940s and 1970s, deeply transforming cities across the continent. As the imagination of an urban future in the Americas ventured increasingly...

Contemporary South Asia: Entrepreneurial Solutions To Intractable Social & Economic Problems

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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...

Extreme Urbanism 1: Reimagining Mumbai’s Back Bay

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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...

Livelihoods And Urban Form: Mumbai In A Comparative Perspective

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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...

South Asian Political Ecology

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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...

Class And The City In Indian Cinema

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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...

Capitalism And Cosmology In Modern India

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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...

Modern India And South Asia

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Instructor: Sugata Bose (History Department) Fall 2014 This course provides the historical depth and the comparative context in which to understand contemporary South Asia through an historical inquiry into the making and multiple meanings of modernity...

Religion In India: Texts And Traditions In A Complex Society

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Instructor: Diana Eck (South Asian Studies, The Study of Religion) Fall 2014 An exploration of the classical texts, spiritual teachings, epic narratives, and religious movements that have shaped a complex civilization for some three thousand years, from...

Modern India Through Narrative Forms

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Instructor: Shankar Ramaswami (Dept. of South Asian Studies) Fall 2014 This course will explore histories, politics, social relations, and subjectivities in modern India through close readings of novels, short stories, and autobiographies. The course will...

Slum Rehabilitation Scheme In Andheri East

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