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 

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

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. …

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 …

Slums on rent

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

If we’re smart about water, we can stop our cities sinking

As more cities sink, rethinking how we use groundwater can ease pressure on precious aquifers

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 

Real estate: Market happy, but civil society finds it lacking

External commercial borrowings in low-income housing projects will become unaffordable, they say

More dreams sans cars

From a loose concept to a concrete movement, the idea of the car-free city has evolved gradually

Owning the road

Cities without cars, pollution and traffic. A movement is spreading across Europe to drive cars out. People are beginning to say no to cars

Development handcuffed

Confidential audit exposes financial, planning lapses in Andhra’s urban renewal mission

Housing for all still a distant dream

Honing old homing skills

Make more room

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

Court questions sealing relief law

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

COVID-19 lockdown shows why India needs social rental housing

Poor, low-income population needs rents below market rates

Cities are good

Angel argues slowing down urbanisation will hurt the poor the most