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Ahmedabad's Science City Road nearly doubled shop revenue. Can a footpath do the same for your city? When Festivals Become Death Traps: The Kolkata Stampede and India’s Crowd Management Crisis Most Indians Get to School and Work Without a Car. Why Do Our Cities Still Plan Around One? Sunlight, Breeze, a Balcony: When Did the Basics of Living Become Luxury? Prerna Ninama's Death Wasn't an Accident in Ahmedabad. It Was a Design Failure. Ahmedabad's Science City Road nearly doubled shop revenue. Can a footpath do the same for your city? When Festivals Become Death Traps: The Kolkata Stampede and India’s Crowd Management Crisis Most Indians Get to School and Work Without a Car. Why Do Our Cities Still Plan Around One? Sunlight, Breeze, a Balcony: When Did the Basics of Living Become Luxury? Prerna Ninama's Death Wasn't an Accident in Ahmedabad. It Was a Design Failure.
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Civic Innovation

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.

Smritika Srinivasan Smritika Srinivasan
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Urban Design

How To Design Accessible & Walkable Cities in India?

For decades Indian cities have measured progress in flyovers, elevated roads and highway widening. Meanwhile the footpath outside your home is broken, flooded or simply missing. Urban Voices asks what a genuine shift toward accessible, people-first city infrastructure would look like — and which cities are already doing it.

Dr Abhijit Lokre Dr Abhijit Lokre
6 min read