Sustainable Urbanism International is a research and design initiative committed to the conservation of cultural heritage, and developing strategies for promoting culturally and environmentally sensitive strategies for urban development. SUI was established as a non-profit NGO in Bangalore in 2003 and is also a research unit at theGraduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University in New York. SUI works with governments, communities, and private investors to develop strategies for urban development that bring about the benefits of modernization while minimizing the cultural dislocations arising from it. Know More

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Upcoming Events

Urban India 2030

History, Technology, and Community for Sustainable Urban Futures

Columbia University Symposium

March 17-18, 2012

GSAPP Studio-X Mumbai

This conference explores ways that globalization and technology can and should intersect with history and heritage to enhance sustainability and alleviate urban poverty. In addition to the sprawling landscapes of slums, historic parts of cities and towns are often places of poverty with inadequate services, informal economy, decrepit housing stock, and marginal access to the global technology and finance as the engines of India’s growth. These less visible slums of historic quarters test the limits of mass production and markets and are as much a challenge….

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SUI Digital

Heritage in Digital Multimedia aims to promote knowledge, awareness, and excitement about cultural heritage using new media and digital technology to interpret, document, visualize, reconstruct, build support networks and make the heritage sites and monuments accessible.

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