Urban centres in India are often spatially organic and dispersed, with disconnected road networks, segregated services, and ill-advised infrastructure provision. Occupations, working/living conditions, and aspirations make people move differently and intensely through various parts of the city on a day-to-day basis. This movement happens on foot, bicycles, motorcycles, in autos, buses, cars or even trains. Cities are especially incapable of providing affordable modes of transport to those who inhabit them. Owning a private vehicle offers relief, but not before presenting its own set of problems. This inadequacy affects the poor most severely. Escalating land prices also affect their ability to live in places with easy access to work, markets, and other essential services. This contributes to the growth of sprawl and slums, both. It is imperative to work towards bringing together places of residence and work, with transport that connects them as a unitary complex problem.

A set of illustrations were produced to compare the lives of people across various socioeconomic backgrounds over the course of their typical day.
The illustrations were designed to accommodate:
activities (indicated by numbered stages)
various modes of transport (signified by different coloured lines)
and a period of 24 hours a day (each grey circle in the background representing an hour of the day)
on a spatially-schematic map of the city.

Urban mobility, especially for the economically disadvantaged and working within the informal sector (as well as working women, especially involved in care-giving for families, single mothers, disadvantaged students, and daily-wage labourers), is considered the lifeline and an enabling means to get access to livelihood on a daily basis. However, it is crucial to this service delivery within the frame of total commuting time spent everyday. Commuting time is directly proportional to economic opportunities. The more time one spends in a commute, the less time one can afford for productive work.

These fictionalized accounts drew from the in-depth case studies of the respondents for the Urban Poverty Survey at CSTEP and presented by Dr. Robin King in Washington D.C. (2010).

A poster for a conference in Delhi, 2010 was created to illustrate the same idea. The poster presented the context of slums with which those in Bangalore were being studied under the aforementioned survey.

The collage within in the poster explains the possible reasons for the unending cycle of slums springing in our cities. The text and data representations talk at length about the slums, challenges facing its inhabitants with a focus on mobility options and planning deficit thereof. It also includes elementary policy options to work towards more inclusive planning in transportation with an emphasis on inclusiveness, affordability and comfort.