Skip to content
  • Facebook icon
  • Instagram icon
  • Twitter icon

Question of Cities

  • Home
  • Natural Environment
    • Sustainability
    • Rivers & Waterbodies
    • Green Zones
  • Built Environment
    • Urban Planning
    • Land Use
    • Open Spaces
    • Infrastructure
    • Pollution
    • Digitalisation
  • Climate Change
    • Heat Waves
    • Urban Floods
    • Air Pollution
  • Right to the City
    • Housing
    • Amenities
    • Inequality
    • Movements
      • Community Chronicles
      • Collective Action
  • Gender
    • Women in Cities
  • More
    • News Digest
      • 2025
      • 2024
      • 2023
      • 2022
    • QoC Specials
      • Anniversary Edition
      • Jane Jacobs
      • Patrick Geddes
      • New Cities
    • Fellowships
      • QoC-CANSA Fellowship
    • Perspective Papers
    • Reports
    • Books
    • Voices
  • About
    • Contact
    • Support
    • Who We Are
    • Our Team
    • Editor’s Note

Question of Cities

Question of Cities

Menumenu

Tag: Restoration

  • Gender
  • Open Spaces
  • Sustainability

Saving Rani Bagh with women’s power and collaborative campaigns

Women from diverse backgrounds joined hands to save one of Mumbai’s oldest green spaces and botanical garden, Rani Bagh, from construction. Their painstaking and tedious paperwork, awareness campaigns, audio-visual presentations, RTI applications, and archival information gradually ensured that the Brihanmumbai…
By Jashvitha DhageyMarch 8, 2024
Read more
  • Built Environment
  • Land Use
  • Urban Planning

Bansilalpet stepwell restoration: Significant placemaking but questions remain

A six-level stepwell, built in the 1930s, was buried under waste and debris in a congested area in Secunderabad for years. Many residents did not know about the historical structure. The restoration work began in 2021 and it was inaugurated…
By Yunus LasaniaDecember 30, 2022
Read more
  • Movements
  • Collective Action
  • Rivers & Waterbodies

How Vadodara’s citizens joined forces to save the iconic Vishwamitri river

The highly polluted Vishwamitri river in Gujarat’s Vadodara was dying and the municipal corporation floated the idea of a riverfront which would have spelt the death knell for the river. From academics who first woke up with the alarm bells…
By Jashvitha DhageyAugust 12, 2022
Read more
Question of Cities is India’s only online journal dedicated to urbanisation, ecology and social equity. We strive to document stories and develop dialogues on these themes to imagine, create and re-create cities. The journal is published by the Mumbai-based trust, Participatory Urban Design and Development Initiative (PUDDI).
  • Natural Environment
  • Climate Change
  • Mapping Cities
  • Built Environment
  • Land Use
  • Right to the City
  • Inequality
  • Gender
  • Movements
  • News Digest
  • Who We Are
  • Support

Follow Us

  • Facebook icon
  • Instagram icon
  • Twitter icon
Talk to us :
[email protected]
Subscribe to QoC here
Send story pitches to us
[email protected]
Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Contact
x-circle
  • Home
  • Natural Environment
    • Sustainability
    • Rivers & Waterbodies
    • Green Zones
  • Built Environment
    • Urban Planning
    • Land Use
    • Open Spaces
    • Infrastructure
    • Pollution
    • Digitalisation
  • Climate Change
    • Heat Waves
    • Urban Floods
    • Air Pollution
  • Right to the City
    • Housing
    • Amenities
    • Inequality
    • Movements
      • Community Chronicles
      • Collective Action
  • Gender
    • Women in Cities
  • More
    • News Digest
      • 2025
      • 2024
      • 2023
      • 2022
    • QoC Specials
      • Anniversary Edition
      • Jane Jacobs
      • Patrick Geddes
      • New Cities
    • Fellowships
      • QoC-CANSA Fellowship
    • Perspective Papers
    • Reports
    • Books
    • Voices
  • About
    • Contact
    • Support
    • Who We Are
    • Our Team
    • Editor’s Note
  • Facebook icon
  • Instagram icon
  • Twitter icon
Login

Register Forgot Password ?
Search
Search for:
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.Ok