DECAYING MODERNITIES
2014, Chandigarh, India, With Metaxia Markaki
Chandigarh the ville de Beton Brt celebrated its 50 years of completion recently. This photo series captures the city in perpetual decay and the aesthetic of decay. The hybidisation that the inhabitants are bringing to this city and how a pirate modernity is taking over the city.
NITIN BATHLA
Welcome to my personal website.
I am a Zurich-based urban scholar, filmmaker, and curator working at the intersections of infrastructure, political ecology, and extended urbanisation. I lead research in Infrastructure Geography at the Department of Geography, University of Zurich, combining ethnographic inquiry with film, visual practice, and collaborative methods..
My work has received the Urban Studies Best Article Prize 2025, the DAM Architectural Book Award for
Researching Otherwise: Pluriversal Methodologies for Landscape and Urban Studies, and the Society of Architectural Historians Award for Film and Video for the documentary Not Just Roads. I serve as Debates and Interventions Editor at Urban Geography, an editor of the Urban Political Podcast, International Corresponding Editor for Urban Studies, and an editorial board member of the Journal of Urban Political Ecology and Shared Habitats.
On this website you will find some of my past and ongoing works and writings.