Price of urban sprawl

Urban sprawl has caused conditions of insecurity in the peri-urban areas.

High on skyscrapers

Book>> Triumph of the city: How our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier, and happier • by Edward Glaeser &…

Urban children in slums more vulnerable to health risks, says report

Centres that host most of these vulnerable kids need immediate attention

The City-not-so-Beautiful

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

Much of today's environmental impacts originate in cities

Citizens' reports indict Gujarat government for Surat floods

The floods of August 2006 are among the worst Gujarat's Surat city

Saving city lakes

To counter the rapid decline of its lakes, Karnataka is creating a new authority with powers to fine and imprison encroachers and polluters. Will …

Our little understood urban dystopia

Capital punishment

New report on skewed urbanisation in India

Farms in cities

A case for urban agriculture in India

MONEYMAKERS

A requiem for the Bagmati

Rebuilding cities

Let's talk about access to space

Darkling waters

The Bagmati loses its way in Kathmandu amid political vacuum and urban chaos

City on trial

Chandigarh resists luxury residential project but fails to rehabilitate its slum population to preserve its master plan

A look at world urban population