The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Perfect urban infrastructure is where basic civic amenities for healthy living are made available before the actual construction of dwelling units. This does not exist in developing countries easily. In India particularly, it is far from satisfactory. This happened due to a major mistake made by our leaders post-Independence. The …
Planning Sustainable Cities reviews recent urban planning practices and approaches, discusses constraints and conflicts existing, and identifies innovative approaches that are more responsive to current challenges of urbanization. It notes that traditional approaches to urban planning (particularly in developing countries) have largely failed to promote equitable, efficient and sustainable human …
Planning Sustainable Cities reviews recent urban planning practices and approaches, discusses constraints and conflicts therein, and identifies innovative approaches that are more responsive to current challenges of urbanization. It notes that traditional approaches to urban planning (particularly in developing countries) have largely failed to promote equitable, efficient and sustainable human …
This paper describes two large-scale upgrading programmes in Argentina that sought to transfer land tenure to the inhabitants of informal settlements as part of a larger process that provided good quality infrastructure and services and other measures to strengthen their social inclusion in the wider city. In doing this, they …
This paper describes the changes in official policy on riverside development in Surabaya, negotiated by the residents of low-income riverside settlements through their organization, Paguyuban Warga Strenkali Surabaya (PWS). They shifted the official policy from relocation to redevelopment by organizing the riverside communities and by developing their own proposals to …
It has become an annual confluence of ideas and ideology, a high-powered forum where Union ministers, chief ministers and those in charge of key ministries in strategic states meet to debate the hot-button issues of the day as well as discover the true state of their states. The seventh India …
Paul John & Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: For once, the urban development department is talking of a unified metropolitan transport authority for Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad. Principal secretary Gauri Kumar has conducted meetings to discuss the proposition. Officers of Gandhinagar Urban Development Authority and Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (Auda) who …
The Union minister of state for urban Development, Mr Saugata Roy has urged the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) to take initiative to complete houses for the urban poor on time. Mr Roy visited Nonadanga where houses are coming up for people coming from economically challenged families. The people who …
Sanjeev Sanyal / New Delhi September 02, 2009, 0:12 IST Delhi needs strategic interventions, not master plans, says Sanjeev Sanyal Few cities in the world have been as dramatically transformed as Delhi in the last hundred years. From a decayed Mughal city at the end of the 19th century to …
The current issue of the UGEC Viewpoints was conceptualized at the end of the 7th Open Meeting of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change which was held in Bonn, Germany between April 26-30. The conference was deemed a great success with nearly 1,000 participants including researchers, NGOs, …
After waiting for the nod from the Ministry of Urban Development for over a year now, the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has finally received the technical go-ahead for its ambitious plan of resuscitating the Yamuna
Pune Municipal Commissioner Mahesh Zagde on Thursday directed the civic staff to speed up the development work being carried out under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), so that new proposals could be sent to the union government for approval.
Roads Spanning 7 km Approved By SRFDCL Board On Wednesday Paul John TNN Ahmedabad: There will be no concept of Floor Space Index (FSI) on Sabarmati Riverfront for now. As the present plan stands, the 20-per cent of land reserved for commercial development has perfect pre-decided geometrical plot shapes that …
New Delhi: The central government on Wednesday warned that the states that have not implemented projects under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) satisfactorily will find it difficult to get financial aid from it in future. Addressing the annual meeting of urban development secretaries and principal secretaries of states, …
DDA decided to declare Nehru Place a `No Hawking Zone' . It will also take up construction of 10,000 houses for the poor under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. The Delhi Development Authority on Monday passed the draft zonal plans for Yamuna river bed (zone"O") and Rohini area …
Manas Dasgupta GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged the Centre to provide necessary funds for the development of the State
