• ISBN13: 9788494933004
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: History
• Publisher: Altrim Publishers
• Publisher Imprint: Altrim Publishers
• Publication Date: October 16, 2022
• Pages: 120
• Original Price: INR 2200.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 500 grams

This monograph illustrates the conception, planning, and building of a unique settlement named Hathigaon, or Elephant village, designed by Rahul Mehrotra architect, for working elephants and their care taking families in the dry and arid city of Jaipur. The book also includes a reflective essay by Rahul Mehrotra. The overall planning approach including project conception and design development centred upon elephant comfort and meaningful animal-human interaction by focusing upon two key questions. The author's purpose is not only to draw out practical insights-that designers working in similar developing contexts may find useful worldwide-but also to examine how settlement planning befitting 21st century design sensibilities might look like in the emergent urban landscape of lndia and south Asia more broadly?

Sanjeev Vidyarthi is an architect, he has been professor of architecture at the Aayojan School of Architecture in Jaipur and actually he's associate professor of Urban Planning and Policy at University of Illinois at Chicago (USA).

Born and raised in Jaipur, Megha Bhatnagar is a leading architect of the city today. Her practice pays particular attention to crafting simple and elegant designs suited to the cause and context.