Global State of National Urban Policy 2024
<p>With global population increasingly concentrating in urban areas, cities are driving national economic growth, while also grappling with challenges such as inequalities, affordable housing shortages,
Urbanisation
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Not great?: Greater Hyderabad
Court stays ambitious move
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There’s nothing august about Mumbai
<font class="UCASE"><b>July 26, 2005:</b></font> It began raining at 11 am. In the next 24 hours, India’s most populous city received 944 mm of rainfall. The resultant flood killed 450 people (officially), and caused financial damage worth about Rs 4,000
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Extreme weather events over India in the last 100 years
The authors in this paper present a factual and a brief review of the extreme weather events that occurred in India during the last 100 years (1991-2004). The socio-economic impacts of the extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, cyclones, hail storm, thunderstorm, heat and cold waves have been increasing due to large growth of population and its migration towards urban
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Remembering act
Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in India's High-Tech City
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The battle of the Indian bulge - II
I never thought I would write in defence of the Indian state. But I am. The de construction of the notion of public space and the practice of public service is evident and will cripple us enormously.
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Land diversion
Builders bending <i>bhoodan</i> rules in Gujarat
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Is it the end?
For two historical water bodies in Hyderabad
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Dhamaal Growth
NIDHI JAMWAL wonders what happened after Gurgaon got colonyfied
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Aaj Ka Roadshow
Liberalisation in India has not only affected humdrum life, but also popular cultural forms. This is palpable in the changing dynamics of the big screen. Indian cinema has become even more urbane now than ever before. No longer can the elite take a dek
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Condition of urban slums 2002: salient features
This report contains information on ownership, area type, structure, living facilities like electricity, drinking water, latrine, sewerage, drainage, garbage disposal, distance of the slum from nearest primary school and government hospital/health centre.