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The purpose of the thesis lies in exploring the new possibilities of the stilt building in dealing with two sustainability problems caused by urban development: the Lack of Public Greening in Prosperous, High-density Areas, and the Continuous Sprawl of Private Housing in Suburbs.

As the first example of a town consciously built where two cultures, the Indic and the Western, entered redefined relationships under the relatively freer powers of post-colonialism, cross-breeding political, town-planning and architectural ideas and elements, Chandigarh offers …

This dissertation argues that modernists like Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and Alain Resnais construct literary and filmic works that rely on interruptions and elliptical narration to gesture towards an aesthetics of modernity that counters the interest in monoliths concurrently…