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Three loops of learning to rethink the cities-ecosystems relationship

For climate adaptation to move from crisis management to a transformative rethinking of urban life, the three loops of learning framework – improving immediate responses, questioning planning assumptions to integrate ecology, and building adaptive co-management – is useful. Bengaluru’s floods…
By Arvind Lakshmisha and Harini NagendraJuly 24, 2026
  • Built Environment
  • Ecology
  • Sustainability

Building with nature not a luxury, calls for political will

Amid the transformation in cities, a question steadily crowded out is what happens to the ecological systems when urban land is treated…
By Sanchi Singh, PhDJuly 24, 2026
  • Built Environment
  • Ecology
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Multispecies Justice and the political economy of Shillong

Multispecies justice recognises that humans are deeply interconnected with a host of other species but this is hardly represented in urban planning.…
By Satakshi GuptaJuly 24, 2026
  • Built Environment
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Delhi has plans to restore
the Ridge. Ecologists
have questions

Can humans truly build a forest with a few native species and art-themed woodlands has been the lingering question since the first…
By Ankita Dhar KarmakarJuly 24, 2026
  • Built Environment
  • Ecology
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Wayanad’s mountains have spoken, again. Who’s listening?

The recent Kalladi landslide showed that, like fear after the Choolarmala landslides two years ago, key questions too did not fade. Just…
By KA ShajiJuly 24, 2026
  • Natural Environment
  • Ecology
  • Rivers & Waterbodies

The Musi – then and now

  Cover photo: Musi River at Hyderabad/ Wikimedia Commons
By Team QoCFebruary 20, 2026
  • Natural Environment
  • Ecology
  • Rivers & Waterbodies

Delhi owes the Yamuna an ecologically-sound river-led city plan

The deterioration and shrinking of the Yamuna in Delhi have worsened over the decades despite thousands of crores spent. Constructions on its…
By Ankita Dhar KarmakarFebruary 6, 2026
  • Natural Environment
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  • Rivers & Waterbodies

The Yamuna: Memoir of
a dying river

  Nikeita Saraf, a Thane-based architect and urban practitioner, works as illustrator and writer with Question of Cities. Through her academic years at School of Environment and Architecture, and later as Urban Fellow at the Indian Institute of Human Settlements…
By Nikeita SarafFebruary 6, 2026
  • Sustainability
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  • Tourism

Ecotourism: Small steps forward but a giant leap remains

Ecotourism, as a path to make tourism sustainable for nature and people, is still a fraction of India’s gigantic tourism industry, mostly…
By Jashvitha DhageyJune 27, 2025
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