Contents EDITORIAL Smita Dalvi PAPERS & ESSAYS Green Building Rating Systems: A Comparative Analysis [pp. 8 – 21] Supriya Nene Ecological Impact of Urban Development: Lakes of Bengaluru [pp. 22 – 45] Chandrakanth K. Authoring Design Studios [pp. 46 – 55] Meghal Arya ‘This New Architecture’: Contemporary Voices on Bombay’s Architecture Before the Nation State [pp. 56 – 73] Mustansir Dalvi The Politics of Acknowledgement: Exploding the Male Architectural Canon [pp. 74 – 81] Nancy Adajania PRACTICE Rethinking Values in Designing Architecture [pp. 82 – 87] Ashok B. Lall Dialogue Social Dimension of Design and Design Education [pp. 88 – 95] Amita Sinha in Conversation with Galen Cranz BOOK REVIEW A Window to Design Research [pp. 96 – 99] Ethnography for Designers Galen Cranz Routledge (2016) Amita Sinha