After coronavirus, a key question emerges: What in essence is a city for? There is a need to look at permanent urban policy choices to make life safer for all
How cities can manage travel demands in post-COVID-19 societies
Earth day musings: Can this pandemic change the idea of a city?
COVID-19: Why are the migrant workers so desperate to move out?
COVID-19: Strategising response through locational intelligence in cities
India needs to leverage the role of Geographic Information System technology for devising strategies
Cities in the time of COVID-19
The current scenario underscores the need to make cities adapt and respond to threats through effective planning
Finding green sense in India’s new environmental regime
The new EIA draft notification leaves a lot of questions unanswered even as India is yet to receive a ...
COVID-19 outbreak brings attention back to informal sector
Over 90% of the country’s total workforce is in the informal sector
The ecological cost of highway to my village
How construction of a road led to economical, cultural shift in my village in Jaunpur
How do India’s policies and guidelines look at ‘urban lakes’?
The country has come a long way in the fight to protect these bodies of water, but much more ...
Revamping Delhi's 'Gramin Seva' service
The para-transit service started to serve people in Delhi's poor public tranport accessibility areas is deteoriorating; given its importance, ...
Census 2021: India's Urban-rural conundrum
We urbanise, we celebrate; but is urbanisation providing basic livelihood?
The deficient design of India's streets
The designing of Indian roads, from carriageways to sidewalks, leaves much to be desired
What Nigerian cities can learn from the rest of the world
The rapid rate of urban population growth, fuelled by massive rural to urban migration, has overwhelmed public sector resources ...
What commuters want
Rather than a top-bottom framework which assumes what people need, a bottom-up framework involving user perceptions will help in ...
How we lost the art of manipulating microclimate
The current mass housing construction is in contrast from the traditional urban forms of the city, which had smaller ...
Norwegian Embassy: A case of treading lighter on nature’s resources
A combination of low-capital initiatives by the management, maintenance policies and a clear vision that have made the Norwegian ...
Will Indian cities again drown this monsoon?
Even moderate rainfall can lead to major flooding in well-planned urban areas despite the presence of storm water drainage ...
Go for inclusive growth
As much as the government works to formalise the Indian economy, conditions force people into illegal and informal business
India needs a new approach to fire safety
In addition the codes governing fire safety and governance, we should have guidelines and framework to conduct a comprehensive ...
The push to drive indigenous people out of forests
Life of a Dongria Kondh tribal offers insights on Indian government’s reckless interventions into the lives of indigenous people
How the Centre is diluting green clearance norms
In the name of streamlining process to get environmental clearances, the Centre has turned these rules into mere formality
How Delhi’s draft e-vehicle policy stands out
Here’s a lowdown on what the policy offers to meet its aim of 25 per cent new vehicle registrations ...
No ambiguity on need for better urban planning
We need to operationalise policy on the assumption that increased frequency of extreme weather events and deepening impacts are ...
Bridging the rural-urban divide
Instead of setting overambitious targets, the government should ensure speedy implementation of the Rurban Mission