“The city is both natural and contrived, a transformation of "wild" nature to serve human needs, and an evolving entity shaped by both natural and cultural processes." - Anne Whiston Spirn I’m standing in a vacant lot in the periphery of Bengaluru. It’s a slightly hazy spring morning and it’s already sweltering. The muted stillness of the neighbourhood is occasionally pierced by the clamour of nearby construction and the distant screeching of regional passenger trains. The heavily disturbed terracotta colored earth below radiates a slightly sour odor and is punctuated by a scrappy patchwork of discarded plastic debris and scrubby spontaneous…
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Daniel Phillips is an American urban landscape ecologist and designer currently conducting research in Bangalore with support from the U.S. Fulbright Program and the United States India Educational Foundation (USIEF). He is the co-director of a collaborative design practice called Commonstudio (http://www.thecommonstudio.com), which explores a range of urban landscape topics through design and applied research initiatives.