Speciesism is a prejudice synonymous to racial profiling, gender discrimination, religious discrimination and such. The perception of the superiority of humans incites blatant essentialisation of other species as the ones to fear, ones to eat and ones to tame and rear.

The street animal's existence, however, has disputed sentiments. Extreme sides of the spectrum lie the sympathy-mobilising 'animal lovers', and the other side despising a street animal's presence. 

Within this tumultuous conflict, the street animal accommodates itself, devouring organic waste disposed callously on streets, adjusting itself within a human-centric landscape.

An extremely intricate, complex social arrangement develops from the inter-species relationships. The arrangement is a product of inter-species interactions in the urban. It spans across regulating policies, cultures, economic and religious disparities, physical boundaries, the indoor-outdoor binary, and varying ecological conditions.

That being said, the reconfiguration of said parameters may drastically alter the social arrangement. For example, the life of a street animal is knocked askew when the slum it resided in is knocked down and is replaced by a towering rehabilitation building. The shift in the inter-dependency tweaks the relationship, sometimes for the better making it richer and more nuanced, or in this case,  invariably making the metropolitan city an olfactory bore, dulling out the sensorial possibilities of landscapes rich in smells, touch, and taste. It must then be logical to believe that settlement patterns (which emerge from the parameters discussed above) negotiate the existence and quality of the social arrangement.

The thesis aims at identifying the 'enablers' in the city, being shared commodities, spaces, resources, activities, and how they are perceived by the street animal based on which it accommodates itself in the city.