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This article explores plants, seeds, soils, and other nonhuman actors as archival and architectural agents within the history of Lahore's urban landscape, as seen from the ground. It traces the halting efforts of the Agri-Horticultural Society of Punjab to enact regional improvement through the development of agricultural and botanical expertise at the advent of British colonial rule in the province, focusing on the materialization of this work in the society's gardens in Lahore. Foregrounding the contingencies of everyday garden making and maintenance, the article posits nonhuman ecologies as a materially diverse and ephemeral architecture and archive of landscape. It argues that, in helping assemble and modulate the society's efforts to model improvement, conduct plant testing, and develop an ornamental garden, plants, seeds, and soils become unlikely and sometimes unruly aesthetic and historical actors, furthering but also unsettling improvement discourse while relocating its historical effects from the region to the city, and providing new readings of the colonial urban landscape.

Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Siddharth Peter de Souza, Nida Rehman and Saba Sharma -- PART I: MAPPING CRISES -- 1. Transforming the Map? Examining the Political and Academic Dimensions of the Environmental Justice Atlas -- Lena Weber, Leah Temper and Daniela Del Bene -- 2. Humanitarian Tracker: Crowdsourcing and Artificial Intelligence for Social Good -- Hend Alhinnawi and Taha Kass-Hout -- 3. Mapping Forgotten Places Around the World (Missing Maps) -- Interview with Jan Böhm, by Siddharth Peter de Souza -- PART II: CONTESTED TERRITORIES -- 4. Placing Segregation -- Rob Shepard -- 5. Archiving Violence, Understanding Hate in South Asia with Intolerance Tracker -- Siddharth Peter de Souza, Saba Sharma, Nida Rehman and Nooreen Reza -- 6. Advancing a Factual, Rights-based Narrative of Palestine and Palestinians (Palestine Open Maps) -- Interview with Ahmad Barclay, by Siddharth Peter de Souza -- PART III: FEMINIST INTERVENTIONS -- 7. Mapping and Stopping Sexual Harassment with HarassMap -- Rebecca Chiao, Farah Shash, Angie Abdelmonem and Noora Flinkman -- 8. Feminist Solidarity Through Mapping (FemMap) -- Interview with Juliana Guarany da Cunha Santos, by Siddharth Peter de Souza -- PART IV: CIVIC ENGAGEMENTS -- 9. Corruption and Crowdsourcing: Reflections on I Paid a Bribe -- Sumit Arora, Sandhya Christabel D'Souza and Dheeman Ghosh -- 10. Streets and Civic Participation (FixMyStreet) -- Interview with Rebecca Rumbul, by Nooreen Reza -- Afterword: Methods and Social Impacts of Mapping the World Today -- Shannon Mattern -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.

AbstractThis Interventions essay presents 14 stories of, and positions on, urban climates in South Asia. We look analytically and linguistically from this region to engage the terms 'mahaul', 'mausam' and 'aab‐o‐hawa' as critical concepts to conceptualize climate in its political, social, historic, atmospheric, ecological, material, sensory and embodied registers. Gathered together, the stories scaffold a perspective on climate that connects concerns about broader structural conditions (mahaul); local and lived experiences in different temporal registers (mausam) and sociomaterial entanglements that demand new ways of knowing nature (aab‐o‐hawa). An expansive yet grounded conceptualization allows us to narrate individual cases and local climate stories in their multiplicity and difference, rather than through cumulative effects across much wider geographies. This essay on South Asian urban climates provides an analytical frame based on shared colonial history, and geographies connecting experiences of climate across fraught geopolitical borders. These diverse South Asian urbanisms provide evidence of a range of environmental vulnerabilities, while seeking possibilities in already existing climates—in the seas and airs that reorient the experience of land and atmosphere, in centering marginalized voices, in historical remnants to read contemporary urban change, in exploring planning agency grounded in local politics, and from the position of partial knowledge that being within urban climates entails.