In this report, ESCAP explores the future of urbanization in Asia and the Pacific, focusing on the dynamic shifts in the region’s urban landscape. It highlights the region’s demographic transformations, including population ageing, and the persistent challenges of urban poverty and inequality. The analysis covers urban areas of all sizes, …
Ranesh Nair, Isher J Ahluwalia Magarpatta is a shining example of how urban areas can expand to accommodate the needs of urbanisation without hurting the interests of rural landowners through forced or unfair acquisition. Magarpatta is a 430 acre area located on the outskirts of the city of Pune, which …
Since 70-80%of the urban India that is going to be there is yet to be built, with good sense it can be built right That an urban tsunami is going to hit India (it has already begun doing so) is well known. In 20 years, by 2030, the country must …
Two years ago, Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) had a leaking water supply system and defunct meters. It decided to launch a pilot project in the Dharampeth area, and put in new pipes and meters. Today, over 6,000 connections there have water round the clock— and are happy to pay for …
Mahatma Gandhi's words that India lives in its villages are still a truism. But the accelerating pace of urbanisation suggests that, much before the close of this century, India will indeed live in its cities. Going by current trends, 40 per cent of India's population will be living in urban …
Geetanjali Krishna / New Delhi May 15, 2010, 0:39 IST The other day, I got thinking about the importance of names. Call an animal a Royal Bengal Tiger and everyone leaps to its defence (fat lot of good it
Regional chauvinism and urban cosmopolitanism Fifty years after their formation as different states of the Indian Union, Gujarat and Maharashtra have much to be proud of. Both states are among India
This latest NSSO report on the condition of urban slums says that 49,000 slums were estimated to be in existence in urban India in 2008-09. It provides data on living facilities like drinking water, toilet, sewerage, drainage and garbage disposal.The main aim of the survey on condition of slums was …
"Energy Efficient Cities: Assessment Tools and Benchmarking Practices" has been developed from a careful review of selected papers presented during two ESMAP-sponsored sessions at the fifth World Bank Urban Research Symposium,
This paper examines land tenure in informal urban settlements in India from a gender perspective through field research conducted in Ahmedabad in collaboration with the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). The author describes the formal and informal tenure arrangements that were in place in these settlements and analyses their implications for …
The 2010 Commonwealth Games (CWG) will be held in New Delhi, India, from 3-14 October 2010. Given the many unanswered questions that have marked the CWG process, the Housing and Land Rights Network
With 590 mn people in cities by 2030, a business-as-usual approach will mean urban India will look like one giant slum Shirish Sankhe / April 23, 2010, 0:21 IST India is on the cusp of a dramatic urban transformation, the scale and speed of which is unprecedented. It took nearly …
Warangal, April 7: Urbanisation process and rising land prices in the suburbs of Warangal city are gradually taking their toll on large swathes of agricultural land, which is officially being permitted for other use through AP Agricultural Land (Conversion for non-agricultural purposes) Act, 2006. Though district revenue department, Warangal, do …
37 per cent of the expenditure was on food items and 63 per cent on non-food items NEW DELHI: The monthly per capita expenditure in the urban areas of Delhi is the highest in the country, reveals a report on
The news on the conditions of people in the world's slums is mixed: there has been tangible improvement but it is not enough, and the mass of the slum population is growing. Since 2000, the lives of about 227 million living in slum conditions have improved and the Millennium Development …
The objective of this study was to investigate the poorly understood relationship between the process of urbanization and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) through the application of a quantitative measure of urbanicity.
This paper addresses climate change and slum-based poverty among the challenges of sustainable urbanisation. It asserts that the slums will also be the locations most vulnerable to hazards linked to extreme weather, such as flooding or hurricanes, and thus advocates for hazard mitigation strategies to have a
South Asia has the highest rate of child malnutrition in the world, despite rapid economic growth compared to other regions such as sub-Saharan Africa. Known as the
This new report by Mckinsey warns that lack of effective policies to manage urbanization could jeopardize India's GDP growth rate. Suggests adoption of a new operational model for cities with an investment of $1.2 trillion to keep pace with the growing urbanization. India
