Rahul Srivastava is a co-founder of urbz and The Institute of Urbanology. He studied social and urban anthropology in Mumbai, Delhi and Cambridge (UK). His previous publications include an ethnography of urbanized nomads around Mumbai, a novel published by Puffin, (Penguin, India) and 'The Slum Outside', a commentary on Dharavi, co-written with Matias Echanove and published by Strelka Press. He continues to write extensively on urban issues with Matias, with their next major publication signed up with Verso, London. He brings his background in anthropology and visual ethnography to urbanology, the practice that energises much of urbz's work in Mumbai and elsewhere.
Articles
Competition or co-creation?
How design competitions waste time, money and potential. (The Hindu 23.06.19)
Broken nature — reassembling the urban
Connecting humans to each other and the environment is the 21st century’s biggest challenge. (The Hindu 25.05.2019)
Rebellious engineers needed
India’s most loved profession needs a reality check (The Hindu 27.04.2019)
The Space of the Public
A Swiss city re-imagines public space and experiments with direct democracy in the process (The Hindu 16.03.2019)
Lessons in planning from Fort Kochi
Why Fort Kochi is a lesson that urban planners can integrate into a larger vision for India (The Hindu 02.03.2019)
Learning from Tokyo
What the world’s largest city can teach us about local development (The Hindu 16.02.2019)
How cities emerge from the relationship between land and water
All habitats are made up of the sounds of water, as they flow in and out of people, kitchens, bathrooms and sewers (The Hindu 20.01.19)
Hacking the Cyborg
Can collective intelligence save us from self-destruction? (The Hindu 06.01.2019)
An Italian tale of humanity and modernity
A town which has roots in the Neolithic Age struggles with the ups and downs of modernity. (The Hindu 09.12.2018)