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Question of Cities

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How bold urban designs are changing our relationship with cities

As cities develop, streets and public spaces are built to give more room to an increasing number of vehicles. In the process, these spaces lose their people-centric character, disconnecting residents from their cities. Some cities around the world have broken…
By Team QoCOctober 4, 2024
  • Climate Change
  • Sustainability
  • Urban Planning

Pune’s growth story reminds us that nature does not send an invoice

As Pune amalgamates larger non-urban areas into the city limits, expanding in all directions, the frenzy of development has also meant fast-depleting…
By Shobha SurinAugust 23, 2024
  • Urban Planning
  • Movements
  • Sustainability

Why Pune’s riverfront development is a bad idea

The controversial project, spanning 44 kilometres of the Mula, Mutha and Mula-Mutha, aims to construct embankments, walkways, plazas, access roads, gardens and…
By Kedar ChamphekarAugust 23, 2024
  • City Special
  • Sustainability
  • Urban Planning

Pune was peths, rivers, and pleasant summers

All cities change but, for Pune, this has meant the fading out of some favourite spots of old residents -- its natural…
By Ishan SadwelkarAugust 23, 2024
  • Urban Planning
  • Movements
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Green movements as guardians of Pune’s nature

Individual efforts and collective actions by Punekars to save Pune’s ecological heritage in the past few years have brought hope to the…
By Purnima JoshiAugust 23, 2024
  • Climate Change
  • Land Use
  • Sustainability

Dehradun model of development is unsustainable, ecologically hazardous

Once a quaint hill station nestled in the Himalayas, cradling many public institutions of learning and research, Dehradun has seen rapid growth…
By Ranjona BanerjiAugust 9, 2024
  • Built Environment
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  • Urban Floods

Why Mumbai should look beyond Chitale Committee report

In the aftermath of the July 2005 flood, the fact-finding committee submitted its report within nine months. The Madhav Chitale Committee report…
By Shobha SurinJuly 26, 2024
  • Natural Environment
  • Monsoon Floods
  • Sustainability

Rain anxiety trumps the ‘spirit of Mumbai’ for millions

For many in Mumbai who lived through or know of the devastating flood on July 26-27, 2005, every monsoon brings back the nightmare. Those living in informal settlements, the homeless, the millions of commuters, show great anxiety about a possible…
By Shivani DaveJuly 26, 2024
  • Natural Environment
  • Monsoon Floods
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Why Mumbai has failed to become flood-ready

The city of dreams is wading through a flood of problems. The rain photos are the same every year — people negotiating…
By Jashvitha DhageyJuly 26, 2024
  • Climate Change
  • Natural Environment
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Climate disasters are connected to the way our cities are planned

Cities have completely ignored their natural areas. If mapped and made available on a public database, people can be empowered with the…
By Jashvitha Dhagey and Maitreyee ReleJune 28, 2024

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