Housing for all still a distant dream

Honing old homing skills

Make more room

Unfriendly neighbourhoods

In their rush to meet the housing requirements of cities, planners are turning a blind eye to the quality of the built environment

How to design, build an eco-friendly and low-cost urban mud house for Rs 17 lakh?

Veena Lal, who runs a charitable society for destitute children by the name of Karm Marg, has made it possible

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

Living problems

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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

The Bulldozer in the Countryside

Imagine an assembly line construction of 17,000 homes on 3,500 acres of land costing US $135 million. Just on the borders of expanding cities. …

Berlin’s grassroots plan to renationalise up to 200,000 ex-council homes from corporate landlords

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

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

High on skyscrapers

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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 shaded spaces, were more …

Counting them in

Slums on rent

Dhaka has seen a sharp rise in privately owned slums. Are these a better alternative to 'squatter settlements' common in India?

'Redevelopment disguises landgrab'

Dharavi survey eliminates tenants

Majority of residents may not be eligible for free housing

Dharavi gets costlier, project gets delayed

Land titles to urban slum dwellers in Bangalore

Slums as self-confrontation

The attempt to free cities of slums will only make them invisible  

Realty bill ignores reality

Real estate regulations silent on housing for low income group

Skyscrapers rise on lakebed

Developers want to build further  

Maharashtra draft urban housing policy not enough

Urban poor to get flats in multi-storeys