PrOpenCity: Where the Common Man Presides Part 2 Project 2020 Shaurya Chauhan Sushant University | India Prominent urbanizing centres across the globe like Delhi, Dhaka or Manila have exhibited that development often faces a challenge in bridging the gap among top-down collective requirements of the city and bottom-up individual aspirations of the ever-diversifying population- resulting in unplanned sprawl, poor planning and low-density development emerging as automated responses. This research advocates a collaborative design method for future development: one that allows rapid application with its prototypical nature and an inclusive approach with mediation between the ‘human’ and the ‘built’, purely with use of empirical tools.Building upon the concepts and principles of ‘open-sourcing’ in design, the project establishes a framework that serves current user requirements while allowing for future citizen-driven modifications. To bring forward specifics, the research looks at a redevelopment proposed in the core of rapidly urbanizing city of Delhi, encompassing extreme physical, demographic and economic diversity. Analytical tools such as Space, Event and Movement by Bernard Tschumi (1994) and Five-Point Mental Map by Kevin Lynch (1960) among others, are deep rooted in the process. Over the process, a rudimentary approach to Open Source in design is formed, that can be adopted and applied, across diverse built fabrics of contemporary cities. Shaurya Chauhan Tutor(s)