‘Cities are valued as places of commerce and not well-being, so trees are seen as dispensable’
In an age when cities are building more malls, parking lots, offices, schools and colleges, there seems to be hardly any room…
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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…
‘This year’s Yamuna floods are a trailer of bigger floods to hit Delhi’
New Delhi and parts of the National Capital region (NCR) struggled through a massive flood in July, the likes of which had…
‘Mumbai’s development not being done as per its extreme climate risks’
India’s financial capital, Mumbai, witnessed its worst flood in July 2005. Since then, it has found a place in the list of…
‘Why Joshimath, Mussoorie and Nainital are also threatened towns’
When Joshimath, a hill town in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, suffered the destruction caused by subsidence in January, the large infrastructure projects…
‘Urban art festivals are event-centric. They can be visceral provocations and part of a larger ongoing public discourse’
It was the festival time in Mumbai with a number of them making the most of the city’s short-lived winter. Each neighbourhood…
‘Gandhinagar is a green ghost capital city – and hardly Gandhian’
When Gujarat’s capital Gandhinagar was conceptualised, it seemed like an ideal place to live in with a vast expanse of greenery. The…
‘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…
‘We need a thorough review of, not mere amendments to, environmental laws’
We have the right to a healthy environment. It is the responsibility of the government to protect the environment and ensure a…
‘Why do we not see that our cities have come up around rivers?’
There is a severe stress on our rivers when we treat them like a resource which can be exploited instead of protecting…