Four in five Indian teenagers don’t move enough. Is your neighbourhood to blame?
Chennai: Before the pandemic, fewer than one in five Indian teenagers were active enough to stay healthy. Then schools shut for nearly…
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Walking
The Right to Walk: Supreme Court of India Affirms Footpaths as a Constitutional Right
The Right to Walk: Supreme Court of India Affirms Footpaths as a Constitutional Right in India.
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 riding during…
Make Pedestrian-Friendly Market Spaces, MoHUA, Govt of India
The Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs has recommended holistic planning for pedestrian-friendly market spaces in various cities and municipal areas in…
India’s Tryst With Designing Pedestrian-Friendly Streets
Streets have been our oldest social spaces which connected diverse areas of the city, creating multiple spaces for communal activities and points for interaction along the way. With an increase in the growth of private vehicles and automobiles, streets were no longer seen as public spaces, rather, just a medium to traverse through, in order to get to your destination.
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 context to…
Making Chennai Walkable: Dream or Reality?
Ever since Jane Jacobs’ classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, urbanists have extolled the ideal of the dense, mixed-use,…
How To Design Accessible & Walkable Cities in India?
In India, city after city has been focusing on making motorised vehicles the prime focus of transport infrastructure investment. Congestion is deemed…
