Urban India

Renate Bornberg is the founder of buTa | bornberg urban theory and application. She is a lecturer at the TU Wien, Austria, and the editor-in-chief of the interdisciplinary Journal of Comparative Cultural Studies in Architecture (jccs-a). She is member of the board ICOMOS Austria and monitor  for the World Hertage Site " Wachau/ Austria", as well as AAV of ICOMOS International. Renate Bornberg received her diploma in architecture and her PhD from the TU Wien, Austria. After working as an architect, she was lecturer at the University of Liverpool, and locum professor at the Leibniz University of Hanover, before she became a lecturer at the TU Wien.Her research focuses on comparative settlement structures in both, primitive and so called high cultures, including European and Non-European cities, villages and compounds. Of particular interest are the social implications that are embedded in the built environment.

• India in nine episodes.- India – some insights.- Planning theories.- Of ancient times.- At home.- Public spaces.- Gods and the city.- Kings and the city.- Muslims and the city.- The British and the city.- Outsiders and the city.