Building Gender Responsive Urban Spaces and Services
Senior Infrastructure Adviser, Department for International Development (DFID) India The city is the site of everyday practice for the production and reproduction of social relations and social practices and consequently functions as a key site in the production, consumption and reproduction of gendered norms and identities. At the same time, cities are themselves shaped by the gendered […]
Urbanisation as a Governability Issue
Is Collaborative Governance the Solution? The 21st century contemporary city situated largely in the developing world is replete with ‘wicked problems,’ understood as those that are difficult to define and delineate. By extension, these evade solutions. These range from the provision of, and access to basic services, urban crime and inner-city decay as well […]
City and Risk: Achievements and Opportunities
This webinar proposed by the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI) will bring together national disaster management authorities, city authorities, and humanitarian and developmental workers from Asia and the Pacific region to share their experiences in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in their countries. Data shows that Cities across the world are badly hit and […]
Listening to People’s Voices
An effort to hear the voices of people, their lived experiences and struggles, and aspirations in the city.
Rethinking Urban Missions
The misplaced optimism that India is somehow protected from the COVID 19 pandemic has proved to be illusory, with the country emerging as third worst-hit county after USA and Brazil and rapidly escalating numbers of cases and deaths in urban India. Big 20 cities in highly urbanized states contribute 74% of the cases and 11 […]
Housing rights and river front development in Asian cities: Time for a change
The current pandemic has very sharply brought to the forefront the interconnectedness of housing, health and sanitation, food security and livelihoods. It also vividly shows the scale of the challenge with respect to the number of people living in precarious situations worldwide. Those living in informal settlements and under-serviced isolated resettlement sites, in totally inadequate […]
Challenging Growth, Changing Drivers
Cities were re-imagined in India as Engines of Growth from the Tenth Five Year Plan (2002-2007) onwards. It was part of a global drive to change society, economy, and – incidentally – ecology. This re-imagination was born within the Millennium Development Goals announced two years earlier in 2000; under Goal 7 – Ensuring Environmental Sustainability […]
Why should we return to Cities that Discarded us?
The humanity would get over the pandemic in a few months, hopefully for a few years, or, alternatively, come to live with it. The post Covid19 world will nonetheless be different from what has been predicted by visionaries so far. Undoubtedly, the sectoral and spatial priorities and development trajectories in the country will be somewhat […]
Is City-led Economic Growth under Stress?
Strange as it may seem, Covid-19 and the consequential lockdowns have severely dented cities such as Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Pune, Surat, Indore, Jaipur and a few others, cities which have been in the forefront of India’s economic growth and development and technological and knowledge advancement. Labour has fled from such cities. Businesses and industry […]
Multiple Channels for Producing Urban Housing
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