Charles Correa used film as a medium to raise awareness around urban issues
Ever since the expansion of transport networks, cities have become one of the most versatile machines for human advancement. And as time has moved on, so has the mass and numbers of these highly efficient cities around the globe. Along with this massive growth, fallacies in this machine have become apparent. The study of urban architecture sought to understand and regulate the exponential spread of cities and made an effort into bettering the lives of the people, who serve as cogs in the city infrastructure. Charles Correa’s high intellect and excellent observation skills are well known through his works, but another remarkable skill of Correa was the language in which he was able to communicate his learnings to others. An architect is disconnected from the commoners, the use of complex drawings and language structure feels alienating except for the members of the architecture fraternity. Correa observed that at the face of any urban issue, the stakeholders that get hit the hardest are