Over the last 24 hours, my attempt to highlight class discrimination as a space-agnostic phenomenon has been hailed as a classic example of unethical, click-baity journalism, or even worse, a cheap publicity stunt. It was none of this.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
As a student of architecture who has studied green walls and their various examples within and outside of India, I highly doubt that these so-called “vertical gardens” will have any effect on Delhi and its pollution and/or temperature, as is being claimed in this article. For starters, these aren’t vertical gardens, just tiny plants that are arranged vertically on walls. I have personally seen these very plants die out, only to be replaced by another plastic cup with another tiny plant. The way I see it, this is just another example of our city and our country trying to ape technologies that are engineered for the west (without thinking them through) in the goal to create a “world-class city”. (And it’s not like successful vertical gardens and facades haven’t been created in India – they have) Also, how did no one object to the environmental impact of the colossal amount of plastic that is being used in these “gardens”?
As a student of architecture who has studied green walls and their various examples within and outside of India, I highly doubt that these so-called “vertical gardens” will have any effect on Delhi and its pollution and/or temperature, as is being claimed in this article. For starters, these aren’t vertical gardens, just tiny plants that are arranged vertically on walls. I have personally seen these very plants die out, only to be replaced by another plastic cup with another tiny plant. The way I see it, this is just another example of our city and our country trying to ape technologies that are engineered for the west (without thinking them through) in the goal to create a “world-class city”. (And it’s not like successful vertical gardens and facades haven’t been created in India – they have) Also, how did no one object to the environmental impact of the colossal amount of plastic that is being used in these “gardens”?