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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Covid19
India’s Climate Strategy: Why Marginalized Communities Must Be at the Centre of Urban Resilience
India’s cities are expanding at breakneck speed, evolving into sprawling urban hubs that drive the nation’s economic engine. Yet, this rapid urbanization…
Strengthen Vaccine Confidence Through Civic Engagement
The COVID19 pandemic is far from over. Globally, the public health experts are asking to take precautions and follow Covid Appropriate Behaviour…
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 a local…
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 have seen…
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, we’ve seen…
Four Steps of Building Trust For Inclusive-Cities to Fight COVID
All of us are highly impressed with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s leadership in steering her country through the COVID crisis.…
The Aftermath of ‘New Normal’ on Smart City Planning in India
Covid19, the noble coronavirus though only six months old, has impacted more than six million lives across the globe and has already…
City Architecture Has become a Punishment in Covid19
The world is negotiating extremely troubled times. Everyone seems confused, anxious, possibly afraid, perhaps trying to make sense of the perpetual uncertainty…
The COVID19 conundrum in Madhya Pradesh Amidst Political Upheaval
The next twelve months will be crucial from a governance point of view in Madhya Pradesh, India. An adaptive response that relies…