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Urban Planning

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  • Urban Planning

Streets are sutradhars of people’s lives, first units of neighbourhoods

Streets, as living and meeting spaces for people, are more than roads. Street-based neighbourhoods reflect social cohesion and inclusiveness in cities but streets are being transformed into roads where people’s presence matters the least. Shop-fronted roads, built for consumptive economy…
By PK DasOctober 6, 2023
  • Built Environment
  • Streets
  • Urban Planning

On streets of India, life unfolds through food, flowers, traditions and people

Urban India lives on its streets, it is said. This is not far from the truth of everyday life for millions in…
By Team QoCOctober 6, 2023
  • Built Environment
  • Streets
  • Urban Planning

Micro-mapping streets and footpaths in a neighbourhood, as a woman

We walk by on badly-designed streets and footpaths or race across at ill-planned traffic intersections made to facilitate vehicles rather than pedestrians,…
By Jashvitha DhageyOctober 6, 2023
  • Built Environment
  • Streets
  • Urban Planning

How women perceive, navigate and occupy public spaces and streets

Are streets gendered? If not, then are streets used differently by women and men which makes them apparently gendered? Does the dynamic…
By Shivani DaveOctober 6, 2023
  • Built Environment
  • Streets
  • Urban Planning

When you open a street up to people, they create magic

Children cycling and skating, a bunch of people practising yoga, an enthusiastic group dancing to Zumba beats, and the elderly strolling without…
By Team QoCOctober 6, 2023
  • Redevelopment
  • Built Environment
  • Urban Planning

How redevelopment ruined Mumbai’s housing and marred the landscape

Three decades after redevelopment of slums and old buildings took off in Mumbai, in the first flush of liberalisation, the percentage of…
By QoC EditorialSeptember 22, 2023
  • Redevelopment
  • Built Environment
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Matharpacady: Redevelopment wriggles its way into a heritage precinct

Amid the titled and colourful bungalows in Matharpacady in south Mumbai, patches of redevelopment stick out like sore thumbs. Steeped in heritage…
By Jashvitha DhageySeptember 22, 2023
  • Redevelopment
  • Built Environment
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‘Redevelopment created houses as commodities for transaction, forgot about people’s lives and equity’

Mumbai has resembled a construction site for the past many years with redevelopment on virtually every other street. Together with large infrastructure like the coastal road and the metro network, the multitude of redeveloped high-rises across the city, on plots…
By Shivani DaveSeptember 22, 2023
  • Redevelopment
  • Built Environment
  • Urban Planning

People of Dharavi nonchalant and apprehensive about redevelopment

What was once a small cluster of huts on a marsh in 20th century Bombay is now 595 acres of cramped houses,…
By Imtiyaz ShaikhSeptember 22, 2023
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  • Rivers & Waterbodies

Greater Dhaka: Making liveable city in times of Climate Change is all politics and planning

Dhaka has been experiencing longer summers with heatwaves, weaker monsoons and shorter winters, indicating the Climate Change impact. Studies show that the…
By Sadiqur RahmanAugust 25, 2023

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