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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Reimagining Cities for Migrants

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As most of our cities have eased up lockdowns and begun moving on to the new normal albeit with uncertainty, some experts have raised the question as to whether lockdowns and other constraining measures imposed by the government have helped prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Two major distinctions have characterized the lockdown stereotypes closure […]

City as a Place, City as People: Recapturing the Place for the People

Urbanization is the defining trend of the 21st century, by 2030, 75 percent of the world’s people will be living in cities. Urbanization is occurring, most rapidly in places with the greatest lack of planning. As urbanisation rapidly surges, the Public realm gets compromised, gets lost, or repurposed. It will be fair to say, that […]

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