Will future cities be friendly?

Urbanisation is not just about infrastructure but also social cohesion

New terminal for Mumbai port faces criticism from urban planners

Courting trouble

Maharashtra raises floor space index "to meet budget deficit"

Remodelling will destroy Mumbai's Crawford market

Mumbai sources out city planning

Financial inclusion critical for building sustainable Indian cities

Financial inclusion not just a matter of economic growth, but also of social justice and ensuring sustainability  

Bihar plans policy change to push urbanisation

The state government has prepared a draft seeking changes to ‘old criteria’ for notifying semi-urban or rural area as urban 

Simply Put : Ahmedabad wall

Education, infrastructure saving grace for top districts: NITI Aayog report

Top performing districts still lag behind in development parameters like health and nutrition

Tough choices have to be made for Africa to sustainably urbanise

With Africa approaching 50 per cent urbanisation, governments have to make hard choices for scale and type of investments they need to make

Zurich is world’s most sustainable city, according to a new index

100 global cities were ranked according to their performance on three parameters—people, planet and profit

Sanitation survey has no winners

45 per cent Indian cities are in the red  

Maharashtra soft on Lavasa?

Yet to implement environment ministry’s order on the project

Regulating living environment for public safety

Stones unto stones

A creative challenge: Designing proposals of 19 waterbodies in Faridabad

The project offered us an opportunity to bring substantial change through our work to the local environment and the lives of people living around …

COVID-19: We’re in a real-time laboratory of a more sustainable urban future

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 …

'Politics, science and civil society will determine success of SDGs'

Paul V Gandingen, director at Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) and a UNESCO chair, talks about how countries can achieve …

Court questions sealing relief law

Delhi to explain how the law is relevant to the Capital’s planned development

Masdar in UAE goes all green

Cities as spaces of culture, constraints

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SC declines to designate Joshimath crisis a national disaster; redirects petitioner to HC

We don’t want anyone to use these proceedings only for sound bytes for social media, SC said

Goa sees sharpest dip in farm sizes, Sikkim follows

The latest provisional Agriculture Census shows that the average size of farmlands in Goa decreased by 30 per cent in five years

Bonds to the rescue?

Urban local bodies across India are floating bonds to raise money. This may render them unviable and make city living costly