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It was Ar. Rahul Mehrotra who coined the term - Architecture of Impatient Capital.

It was to describe the buildings we make post liberalisation in India. Read these articles and you can see a pattern in the questions architects or people related to that trade is asking.


Architecture in today’s Indian cities is a result of “impatient capital". Can you explain?

"There is no reason for this to happen. The sensible thing to do would be to open up more serviced land (with infrastructure) for the city’s growth. The idea of New Bombay in the 1970s was exactly a response to this scarcity of land and the diversification of the geography of the city. The myopia of our politicians subverted the idea and instead they resorted to the tactics of implosion—I use the word tactics because it was, I believe, a conscious decision to create scarcity and the implosion that you refer to. Controlling supply is what has made them all rich! So in short this scarcity you refer to is man-made and not in the city’s long-term interest."



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