Visit by Ar. Rohit Raj and Ar. Vandini Raj Mehta from Delhi and Subhra Raje from Ahmedabad to Aundh smart street on Saturday, 7 March , 2020.
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IFJ magazine publishes Mumbai Street Lab competition.
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Mumbai Street Lab was a competition organized by The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) with World Resources Institute (WRI) in which there are 5 important streets- SV Road, Napean Sea Road, Vikhroli Park Site Road no.17, Maulana Shaukat Ali Road and Rajaram Mohan Roy Road were to be designed. Urban designers had to present their conceptual design in terms of drawings and presentations. This competition was also visited by The Honourable Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.

The proposal for SV Road was won by Ar. Prasanna Desai and Team. The concept design was Walkability, Universal Accessibility and Cycling. The idea was to have a people friendly street , cyclists can drive and hawkers could also have their place.
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Work progress at PCMC Urban Streets, Pimpri Chinchwad.
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These are some of work in progess photos of PCMC Urban streets.
These are grass pebble paver blocks, mainly used for percolation of water and beautification purpose as we don't have that much area below the seatings for water percolation wherever we have provided other standard seating in PCMC urban streets but these are some beautiful examples laid at D.Y. Patil college campus ( Ravet village road, Akurdi, Pimpri Chinchwad)
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Visit by Ar. Biju Kuriakose from Chennai to Aundh smart street on Friday, 28 February 2020.

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Master Plan of urban street- No increase in road width and cutting of trees.
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This article Ar. Prasanna Desai talks about how to design a master plan of urban streets which would help pedestrians to walk safe as well as drivers not to create congestion. He talked about this through his project of Aundh Smart street ,Pune. It is the first urban street in Pune. He has neither increased the width of road nor has cut any of the trees. He said that "Cutting one tree and replanting ten more makes no point." To avoid congestion it is not fesible to increase the road width and cut trees. He belives in saving all the trees and give pedestrians and cyclists first priority.
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Article source:
Dainik Bhaskar, Bhopal, 13 March 2020 edition
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Presentation on "Creating Healthy Hygienic & Humane Cities" at IIA , Bhopal
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Presentation on “Creating Healthy Hygienic & Humane Cities” by Prasanna Desai in a seminar organised IIA ( Indian Institute of Architects - Bhopal Centre ) on Thursday, 12th March 2020.
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Speaker at Architecture & People International Conference , APIC 2020 conducted by Rizvi College of Architecture , Mumbai
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With 30 years of experience in the field of architecture and urban design, Ar. Prasanna Desai is well known for his specialization in conceptualizing contextually responsive design.

A presentation on 'Smart Cities , Smart People ' by Ar. Prasanna Desai at Rizvi College of Architecture on 26th February 2020 between 10:00-11:00 am. It is to inspire the youth of today and to create awareness regarding the role played by trained architects in development of the city.
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