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Shopping malls as public space in India It was high monsoon season. Rain-dodging families, teenagers and the elderly were in search of a retreat: a place to...

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0April 3, 2013
The Great FSI Debate: FSI versus Quality of Life

Floor Space Index is a tool for optimum ‘land consumption’ and ‘building density’. There is an on-going discussion about vertical cities and increasing FSI three or four times in India...
0March 31, 2013
Why small towns are lagging behind?

There are 4,378 urban centres that have the 285 million urban citizens of the country. Of these there are 35 cities that have more than 1 million people and together account...
0February 28, 2013
Live: Highlights from Indian Budget 2013 for the Urban Infrastructure Sector

#budget2013 #infra #Cities Live Highlights from the Indian budget for the urban infrastructure sector. [View the story " #budget2013 #infra #Cities" on Storify]
14December 28, 2012
Prefabricated Technologies- Future of Construction

photo credit: V31S70 India is a land of opportunities; opportunities for those people who want to contribute their efforts in providing better quality affordable housing solutions. With such a high density...
4November 8, 2012
Vinayak Bharne on “The Emerging Asian City”

Vinayak Bharne is the Director of Design at Moule & Polyzoides in Los Angeles, one of the founding firms of the New Urbanism movement; and a joint faculty of urbanism...
3November 8, 2012
Has JNNURM succeeded in addressing urban poverty?

Ignorance is not bliss! – for Small and Medium Cities towards addressing urban poverty through JNNURM Pan-India ONE solution for Urban Poverty is failing. We have seen it in JNNURM and...
3October 7, 2012
Regional governance in Canada

photo credit: Camera Eye Photography‘ . . Canada is the leading former British colony – that leads even its former British ruler – in the introduction and use of integrated regional systems....
1September 1, 2012
Monument in motion

photo credit: Rafa http://www.micamara.es Jantar Mantar, over the past two decades, has offered numerous reflections on the complex intersection of history, protest, place and democracy. Witnessing innumerable performances of protest...
4August 27, 2012
The perfect is the enemy of the good!

photo credit: Emmanuel Dyan Recently I had an opportunity to participate in two engaging dialogues. One, a presentation by Patricia Clarke Annez on her paper- Ahmedabad – Building a Liveable City for all and...
18August 26, 2012
Portland: Nature in the City

It was a conscious effort by the planners and citizens of Portland and Oregon to not become sprawling like its southern neighbors or be completely rural like its eastern neighbors,...
40August 26, 2012
Getting Started :Urban Innovations in Portland City

As the Young Urban Leader Fellow 2012, I have the opportunity to study the metropolitan of Portland and the brilliance achieved by Portland Metro in planning, for the next two...
3August 23, 2012
Portland hosts a Young Indian Leader to study the region’s Urban Innovations

The Portland Metro, Oregon , USA is hosting a Mid-Career Professional from India through the Young Urban Leaders (YUL) Fellowship program organized by The Urban Vision in collaboration with...
1June 11, 2012
The Poor- Excluded from their own common natural resource management

The Bani, a sacred grove spread over 200 hectares (ha), has been treasured by and cared for centuries by the residents of three villages—Mangar, Bandhwari and Baliawas—in memory of Gudriya...
58May 5, 2012
Mumbai : A monument to unnecessary infrastructure
5April 4, 2012
Leopold Café with its renewed history

My recent visit to Leopold Café at Colaba Causeway brought back a few uncomfortable memories from the past; of that fateful day when Mumbai was seized and attacked by terrorists....