Kangra safe corners
The Himalaya is the youngest range of mountains in the world are immensely prone to earthquakes. The entire range falls in seismic zone 5 and 4 - …
Republic quaked
Gujarat is paying a heavy price for a calamity that is by far the biggest government-made disaster since Independence. As the state crawls out …
Still life in waves
The visual media is into the business of producing images. Sometimes, just sometimes, they become iconic. For disasters there is a recognisable …
Real estate on water
Lakes were critical for Indian cities. They prevented floods and recharged groundwater. Today, these holes in the ground are either lucrative …
Lavasa exposed
By its looks, the place could be mistaken for Portofino, a fishing village-cum-resort in Italy—multi-coloured buildings crowd a waterfront …
Road to disaster
Fertile land is up for grabs in western Uttar Pradesh. Private developers are acquiring it to build apartments, industries, IT institutes, and …
The state of housing: What CSE research tells us about rents in Indian cities
Affordable rental housing has emerged as the new way to achieve the objective of housing for all
How to design, build an eco-friendly and low-cost urban mud house
Veena Lal, who runs a charitable society for destitute children by the name of Karm Marg, has made it possible
Photo-copy
If this is world's best in photojournalism, then it is shocking. Make no mistakes. Most of the photographs, featured at the Annual World Press …
Truth about PM’s 'Housing for All' scheme: it is far off target
Eighteen months and Rs 4,275.31 crores later, not even 0.1 per cent of the project could be completed
This Tamil Nadu couple built a 1600 sq feet mud house with just Rs 25 lakh
Akhila, a natural farmer and Surendran, a planning manager from Tamil Nadu embarked on an adventure together to create a 1600 square feet mud …
A utlitarian look at cheap housing
LOW-COST HOUSING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES G C Mathur Publisher: Centre for Science & Technology of the Non-aligned and Other Developing …
How can Delhi provide affordable housing near transit to its poor
India’s capital and other metros have performed woefully in this regard, even as their global counterparts have progressed
Drab public housing ideal for a climate retrofit
Eastern Europe’s ubiquitous prefab housing blocks have potential for mass climate change adaptation
Lessons from COVID-19: Need better demand estimation factors to provide housing for all
Physical distancing as well as home quarantining have changed the housing standardisation game; an overhaul is needed
Manoj Roy on housing for poor in Dhaka
Manoj Roy teaches sustainability science at Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University. He talks about how Dhaka is going through a …
Real estate: Market happy, but civil society finds it lacking
External commercial borrowings in low-income housing projects will become unaffordable, they say
How India’s ‘slum-free’ redevelopment fails residents by ignoring their design insights and needs
Housing design alone cannot change the persistent structural inequality faced by residents
Affordable housing a thrust area, says FM
Experts remain doubtful if the poor will benefit from the incentives offered in the budget
Nowhere!
Three months after Gujarat was flattened by an earthquake, the state government goes in for a relocation plan to satisfy the builder's lobby
India can’t have a piece-meal approach of fighting only food security or climate change
Any effective solution to mitigate climate change in India must take in to account poverty, inadequate food distribution and lack of basic shelter
Homing in on tradition
Traditional models of architecture, especially for mass housing purposes, may yet be resurrected
Why Union Budget 2022-23 falls short in addressing gaps to build disaster resilience
The budgetary allocations under relief on account of natural calamities and MGNREGA have been decreased; this will affect the country in building …
Krack-a-Dawna: How a young couple pioneered natural farming in Mysuru
Today, after 37 years, Vivek and Julie are involved in helping mitigate rural problems through activism and policy