Floor Space Index - Question of Cities

Moving towards sustainable goals brick by brick

The green building movement has been gaining momentum in India with governments doling out incentives. A recent report ranks India third in the world for certified green buildings. However, outdated bye-laws of urban local bodies and the lack of awareness…

Why Mumbai has failed to become flood-ready

The city of dreams is wading through a flood of problems. The rain photos are the same every year — people negotiating knee-deep water, traffic jams, stationary trains in submerged waters. The rainfall has intensified over the years, increasing the…

Walk the talk on public transport, invest with sound mathematics

Cities are all about space. Both private and public transport must be seen from this perspective. Private transport is uneconomical for cities, especially like Mumbai, because cars carry fewer people but occupy more comparative space than other modes like buses.…

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 people in slums is nearly twice that it was in 1991, and the old buildings and chawls have…

‘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…

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Moving towards sustainable goals brick by brick

Why Mumbai has failed to become flood-ready

Walk the talk on public transport, invest with sound mathematics

How redevelopment ruined Mumbai’s housing and marred the landscape

‘Redevelopment created houses as commodities for transaction, forgot about people’s lives and equity’

Mumbai needs a master plan for slum land, not mere populism

Mumbai: The way forward from slums to affordable housing

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