urban heat islands: a burning reality for india’s fast-growing cities
A recent study published in npj Urban Sustainability—titled “Surface Urban Heat Island Effects Intensify More Rapidly in Lower Income Countries” (Yuan et al., 2025)—has rattled many urban professionals out of academic detachment. It’s one thing to understand urban heat islands (UHIs) as a technical phenomenon. It’s quite another to confront how unjustly this burden is distributed worldwide. The data is both vast and precise: 4.8 million urban grids tracked from 2003 to 2018 reveal a global average urban heat island (UHI) rise of 0.021°C per year. But the median health story is different for residents...
Delhi EV Policy 2.0 Next Month, Says Transport Minister Dr. Pankaj Kumar Singh at Urban Adda 2025 held in New Delhi
New Delhi, June 3, 2025 — Urban Adda 2025 kicked off at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, today, bringing together...
Urban Adda 2025: Igniting Conversations for a Sustainable, Equitable Urban Future
New Delhi: As India’s cities expand at an unprecedented pace, so do the challenges—and opportunities—of urban living. This June, New...
Reviving Ayodhya’s Forgotten Waterbodies: A Community Blueprint for Resilient Cities
Unlocking urban resilience starts with reactivating the oldest and most overlooked layer of infrastructure: our natural water systems. When rainwater...
No Toilets, No Creches, No Footpaths: Why Indian Cities Are Failing Mothers
“What if caregiving weren’t treated as a private problem—but a public design priority?” Every year, Mother’s Day floods our timelines...
Can Media and Social Media Influencers Save Our Cities ?
From flashy reels to primetime shouting matches, we are surrounded by stories—some true, many twisted, and most forgettable. But here’s...
The Air We Breathe: Unmasking India’s PM2.5 Crisis
A recent study published in The Lancet Planetary Health delivers a grim warning—India’s deadly relationship with air pollution, specifically PM2.5,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
