Climate Change - Question of Cities

Delhi’s real town planner, the Yamuna, still gasps for life

Over the decades, even as multi-crore programmes to clean the river are expanded, the Yamuna and its floodplain continue to be polluted. Delhi takes from the Yamuna but treats it as a receptacle for its waste. As long as this…

Make space for rivers in cities, draft policies to protect them

Natural rivers and their ecosystems in cities are being ruined in the name of development with projects stripping away them of their ecology, changing their geographical features, and leave a lasting damage on the marine life as well on people…

Pune’s Mula-Mutha sinks into ecological disaster

The ancient river, Mula-Mutha, has been battered by floods, encroachments, and rampant constructions causing massive environmental damage. Turned into a sewer and a dumping site over the years, the neglected river is heavily polluted and filthy. The plan to ‘develop’…

‘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 them. Across cities in India, the story of rivers is similar -- heavily polluted with industrial and household…

Planning and building gender-inclusive cities is the need of the hour

Women and other genders interact differently with the city from the way men do. What work they do, where they live, how they commute, and how they spend leisure hours are determined by what the city offers them – and…

Ragpickers: Women workers battle poverty, administrative apathy, Climate Change

It’s a continuous struggle for ragpickers, mostly women, to earn even a meagre amount for survival. They have to brace extreme heat and torrential rain to be out scrounging the roads, garbage bins and discarded waste for bottles, wrappers, and…

‘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 the ‘IT capital of India’. Tractors rescued the better off people to safety, the less privileged were left…

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Delhi’s real town planner, the Yamuna, still gasps for life

Make space for rivers in cities, draft policies to protect them

Pune’s Mula-Mutha sinks into ecological disaster

‘Why do we not see that our cities have come up around rivers?’

Planning and building gender-inclusive cities is the need of the hour

Ragpickers: Women workers battle poverty, administrative apathy, Climate Change

‘We need to plan cities for extremes. Climate Change is all about extremes’

Flooded realities of ‘smart’ city Ahmedabad

“Mumbai’s housing laws maximise real estate potential, ignore people’s health”

By leaves we live: Finding Patrick Geddes in Mumbai’s Aarey