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Right to the City

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  • Housing
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  • Slums Redevelopment

Insider accounts of precarious lives in a slum and a resettlement colony

What does it mean to live in a slum not only devoid of basic amenities – where even auto rickshaws refuse to ply – but also under the constant threat of demolition? What does it take to rebuild a life…
By Asma Ansari, Ambujwadi and Lara, Lallubhai CompoundJuly 28, 2023
  • Housing
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  • Slums Redevelopment

Mumbai: The way forward from slums to affordable housing

That Mumbai’s slums are a perpetual feature of the city and there is not enough land for affordable housing are manufactured myths.…
By PK Das, Gurbir Singh, Ritu Dewan and Kabir AgarwalJuly 28, 2023
  • Housing
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  • Right to the City

Housing as a way to claim citizenship and exercise rights in Indian cities

The city is a key site where various notions of citizenship are claimed and contested. Since much of urban India lives and…
By Mathew IdicullaJuly 14, 2023
  • Housing
  • Amenities
  • Right to the City

Jaga: Odisha’s land title to slum dwellers worthy of emulation

In a landmark move, pushed by slum dwellers’ movements, the Odisha government introduced a law which made the Jaga Mission possible. Instead…
By Shobha SurinJuly 14, 2023
  • Housing
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  • Right to the City

India’s urban housing crisis: Chasing the affordable dream

Cities in India are centres of commercial activity and infrastructure development. The urban poor, often employed as informal labour, live in informal…
By PK Das, Gurbir Singh, Ritu Dewan and Kabir AgarwalJuly 14, 2023
  • Housing
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  • Right to the City

Living the homeless life as Delhi’s shelter homes lie vacant

With thousands of shelterless people battling Delhi’s inclement weather on the streets, the Right to the City seems to be a far-fetched…
By Ayushya SinghJuly 14, 2023
  • Housing
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  • Right to the City

Story of slums in laws, judgments, and housing schemes

As the number of homeless and urban poor multiply in cities, adequate housing remains a complex issue that governments have neglected. The…
By Team QoCJuly 14, 2023
  • Protest Spaces
  • Right to the City
  • Urban Planning

Streets, not designated spaces, reverberate with protesters and their songs

Protests, a democratic right, need public spaces but maidans, city squares, prominent landmarks and monuments in India’s cities have been gradually cordoned off by governments that are unwilling to have such voices question the dominant narrative they set. Instead, governments…
By Smruti KoppikarJune 16, 2023
  • Right to the City
  • Built Environment
  • Protest Spaces

How India’s financial capital shrunk protest sites, turned down protesters’ volume

Bombay, later Mumbai, has seen huge historical protests. Its protest sites were many – Chowpatty, Hutatma Chowk, Kala Ghoda, Gowalia Tank Maidan…
By Jashvitha DhageyJune 16, 2023
  • Protest Spaces
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Jantar Mantar apart, Delhi’s streets and borders are now temporal protest spaces

The Boat Club was once a favoured protest space in the national capital, so were the grand avenues of Janpath and Rajpath,…
By Bhumika SaraswatiJune 16, 2023

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