Displacement - Question of Cities

Rivers & Waterbodies
Natural Environment
Right to the City

Musi riverfront project for real estate, sidelines people
and river

Only the first phase of the Musi riverfront development project in Hyderabad will be around Rs 7,000 crore; the total cost is estimated from Rs 56,000 crore to allegedly Rs 1.5 lakh crore—the most expensive riverfront work in India. Several…

Built Environment
Land Use
Urban Planning

Overturning a burden: Privatisation of land and city building

From the ideological framework that determines how land is acquired, held and distributed to people’s access to housing and amenities, land use is the most critical aspect of urbanisation. It is the motherboard on which urbanisation unfolds. After the liberalisation…

Community Chronicles
Right to the City
Urban Planning

Adivasis in cities: From people to paupers

A complex set of factors from displacement by huge development projects to landlessness and inadequate employment opportunities has pushed adivasis from their ecosystems in isolated lands and forests and into cities. Here, they provide services mostly in the informal sector…

Musi riverfront project for real estate, sidelines people and river

Overturning a burden: Privatisation of land and city building

Adivasis in cities: From people to paupers

Musi riverfront project for real estate, sidelines people
and river