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Image Credits

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**All images are sourced from Commons unless mentioned otherwise 

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Teaching

 

Postwar NY​

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  • The Great Ziegfeld, Astor Theatre, Broadway & 45th St., New York City. 
    Right center: The Gaiety Building (6-story office building), including entrance to Minsky's Burlesque Theatre (formerly the Gaiety Theatre) 

 

  • Charles Zimmerman speaks at a civil rights rally in the New York Garment District on 38th Street near 7th Avenue in New York City. Signs include "Labor Opposes Discrimination" May 17, 1960 
     

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Three Urbanisms ​

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  • Map of Detroit, Michigan in 1889, Wikicommons 
     

  • Houston, Texas in 1873. Bird's Eye View Of the City of Houston, Texas 1873, 1873. Lithograph (hand-colored), 23.2 x 30.1 in. Published by J. J. Stoner, Madison, Wis. Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin. 
     

  • Topographical map of New York City : showing original water courses and made land / by Gen. Egbert L. Viele ; R. D. Servoss, Eng'r, N. Y. 
     

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Every/Any/All/Some​

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  • Studio Works of students Vidisha Dhar, Raghav Kohli and George Varghese from the BUD program, Monsoon 2020 
     

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History of the Built Environment​

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  • Plan of Meenakshi Amman Temple Madurai, India 

  • Drawing of Batavia (now Jakarta) in the 17th century. 

     

Postwar Modernism 

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Writing

 

Instituting Islands​

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  • Davies' sketch of Bombay harbour 1626 
     

  • The Seven Islands of Bombay (Now Mumbai) before they were merged to form the island of Salsette. 
     

  • A city won from the sea: The great reclamation scheme at Bombay. "The above sketch plan shows the great reclamation scheme at present under consideration at Bombay. The Bombay Government propose to reclaim from the sea the area shown on the right hand side of the line of dots and dashes. The total area thus created will be 973 acres, the scheme is expected to pay for itself in 69 years, and the Government will then enter into possession of a vast new estate free of cost. A small portion of the scheme, near Wodehouse Bridge, is already complete. The land is rocky and is only submerged at high water." 

     

Of Land and Sea​

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  • An extremely attractive and rare 1764 map of Bombay or Mumbai, India by J. N. Bellin. Depicted the peninsula of Bombay as it was in the 1700s – divided into several small islands including Salcet, Bombay, and the Isle of the Jesuits. Shows the city and fort of Bombay at the southern tip of Bombay Island. Also shows the villages of Salcet, Cayman, Mayen, Colay, Bandura and Trombay. Includes the coast of mainland India from the Negalan River northward past the River Penn to what is today Panvel Creek. Offers considerable offshore detail including depth soundings around Bombay Harbor and references to shoals and anchorage. Decorative title cartouche in the baroque style in the lower left quadrant. Prepared by J. N . Bellin for issued as Map no. 25 in vole III of the 1864 issue of Le Petit Atlas Maritime . 

     

Transactional Terrains​

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Proximity Principle​

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  • Regent's Park section of "Improved map of London for 1833, from Actual Survey. Engraved by W. Schmollinger, 27 Goswell Terrace", photographed for Wikipedia by User:Pointillist 
     

  • An aerial view of Central Park, New York City, Taken on 20 May 2010 by Nicholas Hartmann 
    HYPERLINK "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nhartmannphotos" 
     

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Spécialé Z
 

  • Dharavi settlement near Mahim Junction in Mumbai, India, Wiki Commons. 
     

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Neoliberalism

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  • Marriott Marquis Street View 
     

  •  Morosco Theatre, 217 West 45th Street, New York City. Its last show was The Moony Shapiro Songbook, which opened and closed on May 3, 1981. 
    To its right is the Bijou Theatre, with marquee announcing Barbara Perry in Passionate Ladies, which played May 5 to May 10, 1981. 
    Both theaters were demolished in 1982. 

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DEEPA RAMASWAMY
 

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