Farms in cities

A case for urban agriculture in India

New agenda for Africa’s sustainable urbanisation to be adopted at UN meet in Quito

Weak planning of urbanisation is resulting in lost opportunities for growth and transformation for Africa

Life in the fast lanes

Urban areas are "living organisms" in themselves and create their own ecosystems

India

Architect M N Sharma on why Chandigarh's beauty is becoming history

Le Corbusier Foundation, Paris, plans to put Chandigarh in UNESCO's modern heritage list. M N Sharma, the first architect to work with Le …

Making Mumbai global hub

Courts act to protect floodplains

Centre dithers on banning encroachment in river zones

Balding the urban landscape through shortsighted fiscal policies

Elephanta Island gets too much development too fast

Getting power supply could have shaped the island’s future, but now the recent CRZ notification has put its existence at risk

India is moving at jet speed, people should be able to move too

1 in 4 men and every second woman in India are physically inactive; can Indian construct cities which are creators of health, environment and equity?

Bangalore-Mysore corridor leads nowhere

Plan that isn’t

NCR Planning Board dilutes environmental safeguards to promote towns, industries

Creation of Greater Bangalore will strain the city's resources

Rebuilding cities

Mirage of a river

Is restoration of the Sabarmati the way to go?

Space crunch

Goa regional plan has public up in arms

Urban renewal: more talk, less infrastructure

Cities will be too hot to live in future, says new UNEP report

There is a need for a strategic, whole-system approach that realises sustainable urban cooling or rather sustainable urban comfort

Building norms bent for better ease of doing business rankings

The latest notification has eased green norms for builders to facilitate urban development

Concerns over Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project

Agartala wants malls, multiplexes

Cleansing chronicle

THE SANITARY CITY: URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE FROM COLONIAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT·Martin V Melosi·John Hopkins University Press·Year&…

Property industry in trouble in Punjab

West By Far East

In the rush for economic growth, China ignored its environment. Now it faces a nightmare. The country is one of the most polluted in the world.