urban india caught up in parking muddle
India with low car ownership of 22 cars per 1000 inhabitants 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...
public health: a far cry for rural india during covid19
Maya (name changed) a contractual labourer serving a family of four, travels more than five miles each day, sometimes in...
libraries as community spaces: my love story with the indian institute of world culture
In the words of Neil Gaiman, I believe that the future depends on libraries. This conviction comes from the fact...
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,...
urban planning in india need ‘rethinking’ & ‘retrofitting’ in covid19
COVID19 has come in our lives as a blizzard unaware. In the last six months of the year 2020, we...
the end of megacities as we know in covid 19
From Rome to Pataliputra, cities have been engines of economic growth for ages. However, over the last couple of centuries,...
india’s ‘indigenous peoples’ in urgent need of climate justice
India is a large country with interspersed legacy and identity largely driven out of its people and their natural habitats....
the indigenous coastal communities of mumbai in lurch
People settled on coasts to take advantage of the amenities the oceans offer; food supply, source of transport, defensible positions...