urban india caught up in parking muddle
With low car ownership of 22 cars per 1000 inhabitants, India is expected to touch 35 cars per 1000 inhabitants by 2025 (Ghate & Sundar, 2013). This would translate to about 300 cars per 1000 population in large metropolitan centres like Delhi, Chennai etc by 2025. Besides congestion, road safety, and vehicular emissions, the parking challenge is killing the cities today. Increased parking demand and more so car parking is taking a toll on-road space, pedestrian pathways, cycle space, green belts, public open spaces and even city parks in some instances. Parking Policies The government...
Declare January 11 as National Pedestrians’ Day: Citizens Demand
A national coalition of NGOs has launched a nationwide campaign in India to demand that the Government of India should...
Need An Efficient Skill-Based Mechanisms To Mitigate Unemployment Among Urban Youth
The UN projections for the next decade foresee that “At least 475 million new jobs need to be created to...
What does Satellite Imagery say about Kidneys of Kolkata?
Do you know there exists an environmental component that provides flood protection in coastal and urban areas by acting as...
Urban India Caught Up in Parking Muddle
With low car ownership of 22 cars per 1000 inhabitants, India is expected to touch 35 cars per 1000 inhabitants...
Reimaging A World Where All Children Can ‘Play’: The Adda Experiment
Children and playground complement each other. However, a majority of children in India never get an opportunity to play in a...
Civic Sense for Civic Bodies for Pedestrian Needs is Urgent
Walking has always been the primary means of human locomotion. Pedestrianism (walking) was a popular spectator sport just as horse...
india’s tryst with designing pedestrian-friendly streets
Pondy Bazaar, has been Chennaites’ most sought after shopping destination for several decades, long before the large shopping malls sprung...
ahmedabad opens people friendly happy street
The two-decade-old Khau Gali, the gastronomy high-street of Ahmedabad, has returned in a new avatar as “Happy Street Ahmedabad" after...
electric buses making inroad in cities in india
The urban mobility sector in India is presently facing various challenges such as increasing private vehicle ownership, degrading air quality,...
decoding india’s e-mobility policy & future landscape
In a rapidly transforming mobility paradigm, India has some inherent strengths and comparative advantages. The country also has a little...
understanding the social cost of climate-change in india
Based on the IPCC 2018 report, it is estimated if trends in climate change and land holdings in India continue...
god is in the market: is city planning in india getting hijacked by free-market overtures?
In the summer of 2015, the Narendra Modi government announced the 100 Smart Cities Mission. Once the list of cities...
what nations can learn from australia bushfire?
We have seen enough of what has been happening in forests of Amazon, US state of California and more significantly...
what’s in store for sustainability, corporate social responsibility and climate action in budget2020
Indian budget, Budget2020, preparation process now over and to be presented on the floor of the parliament by the Union...
making walkability in vogue in india, still a far cry
In the growing urban centres of today’s world, accessibility and walkability have become one of the growing concerns. Accessibility, in...
why affordable housing in gujarat is a riddle?
When in 2012, Gujarat Housing Board (GHB) reappeared in front of the people and the media after almost a decade...
