‘Mumbai Development Plan is not on paper alone, it makes spatial provisions for women’
The talk of incorporating gender concerns into urban plans has been around for decades but it became a reality only when Mumbai’s…
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‘We need to ask where our data is being used and who is encashing it’
What does digitalisation look like in the urban periphery, the smaller towns? Urban studies scholars and researchers set out to Bhiwandi, on…
‘We need to plan cities for extremes. Climate Change is all about extremes’
The torrential rain and floods in Bengaluru in early September grabbed international attention, showing up wide cracks in the basic infrastructure of…
“Mumbai’s housing laws maximise real estate potential, ignore people’s health”
The regulations are rooted in the building codes that were drawn up for the city after the plague of 1896 but, over…
‘This may be the coolest summer. Be ready for
51 degrees C’
As most cities in India reeled under heat waves this summer and Climate Change impact made itself evident, questions emerged about the…