
Chaarvi Mathur
Assistant Professor
Interests
My academic interest lies in setting out a series of normative principles for urban designers to use when planning for and regulating public space design and management. My present research interest aims at recognising the potential of the “Private” as creator and propagator of public spaces in Mumbai’s lopsided open space developmental planning. It explores the possibility of bridging the gap between the reality of the existing methods of open space incentivization with the the concept of Privately Owned Public Spaces (POPS) as the core toolbox to configure , re-contextualise and demonstrate the provision of public spaces in the context of Indian cities.My work looks at legalising and legitimising Privately Owned Public Spaces (POPS) in Indian cities along with their specific social context.