MUMBAI: The city's draft development plan (DP) will not be published in October as planned.

The Australian government will provide Rs 130 million to improve planning and community resilience in four disaster prone cities, Mullaitivu, Mannar, Vavuniya and Akkaraipattu.

Rising demands of new middle class will be explosive in emerging nations, says new study

India needs to put in place a smart policy to ensure energy efficiency as it urbanises and builds infrastructure rapidly, a top executive of global oil and gas firm Shell says. “A probably biggest social phenomenon of our age is urbanisation, and the way urban centres are structured have huge impact on energy efficiency,” Jeremy Bentham, VP, global business environment, at Royal Dutch Shell, told ET at the launch of Shell’s new study on the future of energy sector.

New Delhi: Delhi may be far from being the global city that the government tells us it is, but in a new survey on the state of city systems, the capital has done well on at least two parameters — f

A U.K. government-sponsored urban planning strategy for Mysore and Madurai promises to significantly cut the carbon footprint of the two growing cities.

Upcoming neighbourhoods in Mysore, for instance, can enjoy around 36 per cent energy benefits and 13 per cent lower commuting time, among others, by adopting certain low-carbon techniques, it was said at a workshop on low-cost master-planning organised by the British High Commission on Thursday.

Old Proposal Of 2 Corridors Scrapped

Lucknow: The much-awaited report of the department of urban planning on the proposed Metro project in the city has made radical changes in the original plan. While it has totally done away with the ‘two corridor’ concept and instead recommended a dense network of Metro connectivity in the city, the entire route has been proposed to be built overhead to save cost. Government sources told TOI that the revised route can reach even to the interiors of the city.

Social Justice Minister Kumari Selja today said traditional urban planning principles in the form of master plans in India had proved exclusionary and caused fragmentation of societies, unequal opportunities and large dichotomies in the character of spaces.

Speaking at the inaugural session of an International Conference on Inclusive Urban Planning being organised here by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Selja called for inclusive cities and said at present the policies had led to some areas being well provided with excessive supply of infrastructure, spaces and amenities and the others being severely deprived with inadequate housing, sub-optimal and scarce infrastructure and urban decay.