New Delhi Urban Futures

New Delhi Urban Futures represents the start of a new and ongoing research trajectory for the Yamuna River Project based at the Tulane School of Architecture and Built Environment, beginning in 2025. Building upon early work of the YRP that foregrounded the recovery of the Yamuna River and her degraded tributaries, canals, and drains, the project now centers around an evolving research agenda that positions the degradation of air, water, and environment as indicators of systemic failures due to a century’s worth of negligent urban evolution. The focus shifts away from the river’s edges to the historically planned fabric of New Delhi’s urban core – one that was designed for performance under very particular economic conditions and societal aspirations, but that now confronts radically different circumstances, resulting in multiple levels of dysfunction due to unplanned population growth, fragmented policy measures, and stressed infrastructural systems.

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