Letters to the Mayor generated 50 fascinating and varied missives to mayors of cities from Guayaquil in Ecuador to Ramallah in Palestine. The project was conceived to remind politicians and the wider public including architects themselves of the political side of their profession. ....


Delhi: “Your office has more or less given up the responsibility of projecting an idea of the city, and social transformation. Whatever happened to the vision symbolised by post-independence projects like Chandigarh, for example? Today your office is concerned with fly-overs, highways, and airports; yes, these are all useful for a metropolis to function, but city-making without the burden of facilitating citizenship or place-making, does not provide a recipe for building a ‘real’ city.” Julia King