High fever

High time to move away from the master plan approach for Indian cities

Initiatives such as GIS-based master & development plans for 500 AMRUT cities are encouraging but we are still far behind

Urban commons: Rethink their management

Loss of urban ‘commons’ and ‘communing’ among larger public have a direct impact on the way a city and its society are …

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Blow for mud builders

Mud is a cost-effective biulding material

Mud is on its way to becoming a popular and economically viable medium of constructon with the urban builder

"Urban management in India is poor"

Every year during monsoons, many towns in India experience heavy flooding. These floods - some natural, others human-induced - result in a heavy …

Chennai rains break multiple century-long records

Large parts of the city have remained inundated over most of the past three weeks

The City-not-so-Beautiful

Necropolis heights book now

Stressed city fathers

Book>> Costs and challenges of local urban services, evidence from India's cities by Kala Seetharam Sridhar and Om Prakash Mathur Price Rs 695

The legendary Gandhian

Pakistani social scientist Akhtar Hameed Khan, is remembered, on his first death anniversary, for his achievements in the field of urban management

Now it is floods

Urban form and travel to completely change after COVID-19

Central business districts will decline while larger apartments will be in demand as more firms consider making employees work-from-home, a …

US municipalities to abolish rights of corporations

Cities as spaces of culture, constraints

Report>>Cities as spaces of culture>>

A debate on India's street food

New report on skewed urbanisation in India

Life in the fast lanes

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

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

Creation of Greater Bangalore will strain the city's resources

JNNURM: a Nehruvian farce

Urban renewal: more talk, less infrastructure

Cleansing chronicle

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