Ganesh Babu

I am an urbanist and architect in Rotterdam. By day I work at PosadMaxwan in The Hague. By night I build toekom.st and Dravidian Urbanism.

I grew up in Madurai and studied architecture at Anna University in Chennai and urbanism at TU Delft. I love cities and their quirks, and I want to understand the systems that make them work. Online I go by The Urbanism Guy.

Essays

  1. 2021Water, Not Under the Bridge | Tales of Drinking Water Provision
  2. 2020A speculative cartographic imagination of an India along ecoregions
  3. 2020The 4 million words that define governmental power in 183 countries
  4. 202032 Trillion font views stacked
  5. 2019The ones who walk away from Omelas | A tale of Indian cities
  6. 2019Zebras, pelicans and pandas: the animal names of road crossings
  7. 2018Nature vs man-made

Projects

  1. 2023Nurturing Schorsmolen
  2. 2022Fieldbook For Chennai
  3. 2021Streets for People
  4. 2021Loops as Leverage
  5. 2020Weaving With Water
  6. 2019City of Velsen | Atlas
  7. 2017Gateways of India
  8. 2016Economy vs Ecology | Urban Lakes Revitalisation
  9. 2016North India study trip

Elsewhere