Skip to content
  • Facebook icon
  • Instagram icon
  • Twitter icon

Question of Cities

  • Home
  • Natural Environment
    • Climate Change
    • Sustainability
    • Rivers & Waterbodies
    • Green Zones
  • Built Environment
    • Urban Planning
    • Land Use
    • Open Spaces
    • Infrastructure
    • Pollution
    • Digitalisation
  • Right to the City
    • Housing
    • Amenities
    • Inequality
  • Gender
    • Women in Cities
  • Movements
    • Community Chronicles
    • Collective Action
  • More
    • News Digest
    • Perspective Papers
    • Research
    • Reports
    • Books
    • Conversations
    • Voices
  • About
    • Contact
    • Support
    • Who We Are
    • Our Team
    • Editor’s Note

Question of Cities

Question of Cities

Menumenu

Sustainability

  • Built Environment
  • New Cities
  • Sustainability

How Bhubaneswar’s master plan was overtaken by unsustainable development

German-Jewish architect Otto Koenigsberger adopted a linear approach in building Odisha’s capital Bhubaneswar in which the neighbourhood unit would be “an attempt to transplant into the city one of the healthiest features of country and small-town life.” This, he argued,…
By PK DasJanuary 27, 2023
  • Built Environment
  • New Cities
  • Sustainability

Chandigarh: Seductive and orderly icon yet prophetic for democracy

In the newly-independent and modernising India, planning and building capital cities was the symbol of the nation. Chandigarh, planned by Le Corbusier,…
By K T RavindranJanuary 13, 2023
  • Built Environment
  • New Cities
  • Sustainability

The city and its discontents: Chandigarh’s alternative story

Despite its proclaimed democratic and egalitarian foundation, Chandigarh has emerged as a city designed for neo-liberal India with its grid hierarchy, segregation…
By Anu SabhlokJanuary 13, 2023
  • Built Environment
  • New Cities
  • Sustainability

Chalo Chalein: Learning from the urban ecology of Chandigarh

The planned and designed city is known for its abundant green spaces including parks spread across its many sectors, the greenbelt surrounding…
By Jitesh MalikJanuary 13, 2023
  • Built Environment
  • New Cities
  • Sustainability

A compendium on Chandigarh and Le Corbusier

How Chandigarh came to be built is a well-known story, one that scholars and urban planners revisit every now and then. What…
By Team QoCJanuary 13, 2023
  • Climate Change
  • Natural Environment
  • Sustainability

COP27 failed to move the needle on climate action, poor will suffer as cities face climate disasters

Another climate summit is over and after hours of debates and discussions, it’s back to the ground to act on the pledges…
By Soumya DuttaDecember 16, 2022
  • Climate Change
  • Pollution
  • Sustainability

Cities have to walk the central government’s talk on climate action

Besides the usual negotiations and national commitments, the recently-concluded Conference of Parties (COP27) in Egypt saw the launch of initiatives for cities…
By Shalini SinghDecember 16, 2022
  • Climate Change
  • Pollution
  • Sustainability

‘Every rupee a city spends now on projects must have a climate lens’

If cities are at the forefront of mitigation and adaptation against Climate Change, then a network of cities forged across international borders would go a long way in addressing the issue. Mayors and leaders of cities in the international C40…
By Team QoCDecember 16, 2022
  • Climate Change
  • Pollution
  • Sustainability

India’s climate action planning needs ecological vision and social sensitivity

The National Action Plan on Climate Change of 2008 was criticised for lacking depth, vision, and urgency; these have not been addressed…
By Team QoCDecember 16, 2022
  • Natural Environment
  • Right to Environment
  • Sustainability

Mainstreaming Climate Change in Navi Mumbai’s Development Plan

Navi Mumbai, the satellite city planned and built nearly 50 years ago to decongest Mumbai, has chalked out its draft Development Plan…
By Dulari ParmarDecember 2, 2022

Posts navigation

1 2 … 4 Next pagearrow-right
Question of Cities is India’s only online journal dedicated to urbanisation, ecology and social equity. We strive to document stories and develop dialogues on these themes to imagine, create and re-create cities. The journal is published by the Mumbai-based trust, Participatory Urban Design and Development Initiative (PUDDI).
  • Natural Environment
  • Climate Change
  • Mapping Cities
  • Built Environment
  • Land Use
  • Right to the City
  • Inequality
  • Gender
  • Movements
  • News Digest
  • Who We Are
  • Support

Follow Us

  • Facebook icon
  • Instagram icon
  • Twitter icon
Talk to us :
contact@questionofcities.org
Subscribe to QoC here
Send story pitches to us
pitches@questionofcities.org
Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Contact
x-circle
  • Home
  • Natural Environment
    • Climate Change
    • Sustainability
    • Rivers & Waterbodies
    • Green Zones
  • Built Environment
    • Urban Planning
    • Land Use
    • Open Spaces
    • Infrastructure
    • Pollution
    • Digitalisation
  • Right to the City
    • Housing
    • Amenities
    • Inequality
  • Gender
    • Women in Cities
  • Movements
    • Community Chronicles
    • Collective Action
  • More
    • News Digest
    • Perspective Papers
    • Research
    • Reports
    • Books
    • Conversations
    • Voices
  • About
    • Contact
    • Support
    • Who We Are
    • Our Team
    • Editor’s Note
  • Facebook icon
  • Instagram icon
  • Twitter icon
Login

Register Forgot Password ?
Search
Search for: