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Robert D. Stephens is a Principal at RMA Architects, Mumbai. His passions include the art of building and constructing beauty through visual, literary, and cinematic imagery. In 2013 he co-produced a feature film with India's first You Tube star, Wilbur Sargunaraj, entitled "Simple Superstar".

The most unique feature of the photos is that they come with an index of the pollution levels in the city on the day that each picture was shot.

For this particular photo taken on February 2015 below were the details of the pollution level:

SO2 - 21 ug / m3
NO2 - 25 ug / m3
RSPM - 70 ug / m3

"Electric Traffic Controllers - Electric traffic controllers were introduced to cope with the ever-increasing traffic in the City. At present, there are two controllers, one at the Bodyguard junction. These were designed by the Corporation Electrical Engineer and manufactured and erected at the cost of the Corporation. These are worked every evening between 6 and 10 by the Police officials. A similar controller on an improved method for use at Round Thana, Mount Road, is being manufactured."

The Official Handbook of the Corporation of Madras
Page 143
Ed. F.E. James
1933

About Madras Transit

After the mesmerising aerial photos of Mumbai in "Mumbai Articles", Robert D Stephens turns his bird's eye view on Chennai in his latest collection "Madras Transit".

Click links below to see his other collections:
Mumbai Articles
Mumbai North

This urban metropolis has had many admirers-from Lady Callcott, an English travel writer who spent considerable time in India, ("I do not know anything more striking than the first approach to Madras..."), to the Indian writer and cartographer, S Muthiah, famous for his political and historical writings on the "city that is still open to the skies, a city that in some ways seems a rural town that has just kept spreading."

Stephen's homage to Chennai, one of the top 52 must-see places to feature in The New York Times, includes 24 aerial photographs in colour. From the geometric street grids of Anna Nagar, to the banks of the Adyar River and beyond, each image is accompanied by a record of air pollution levels on the corresponding day, as measured by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board.

Our one-of-a-kind collection is a compelling invite to wander the streets of a city rapidly shrinking under the onslaught of globalisation.