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, …
The Pune Municipal Corporation has recently published the draft Development Plan for Pune (old city limits). The last plan was sanctioned in 1987 and was incredibly progressive for its time. It recognized the dangers of increased motorization, far before the explosive growth in vehicles started and before the ideas of …
These Development Control Regulations shall be called the Development Control Regulations for Pune Municipal Corporation, Pune 2011, also called as Parent Development Control Regulations. These Development Control Regulations shall apply to building activity and development work in areas under the jurisdiction of Pune Municipal Corporation limit as notified u/s 23 …
The policy brief informs local policymakers about the current trends and activities taking place in selected cities that have signed up to the Making Cities Resilient Campaign since 2010. The Summary draws largely on the findings of the Making Cities Resilient Report 2012, as well as interviews and information local …
This paper presents facts on urban inequalities in the context of certain targets and reflects on the processes through which the agenda of these targets can be met in the future. It focuses on the targets that pertain to improving access to safe drinking water and sanitation, and improving the …
UN-Habitat has carried out, through affordable geographic information systems, an estimation of the public space allocated to the street in different cities of the world to focus attention to the need for better spatial planning that gives due attention to streets and public spaces.
Amidst a rapid urban growth, industrialization and climate change, the Kathmandu valley denizens have continued to face a perennial shortage of drinking water. Per day, around 350 million liters of fresh water is in demand in Kathmandu Valley but hardly 150 million liters can be supplied in the rainy seasons …
Tanzania plans to raise spending by 17 percent in 2013/14 to 17.7 trillion shillings ($11 billion) with a focus on infrastructure projects, and aims to lift growth to 7 percent in 2013. The economy grew 6.9 percent in 2012 from 6.4 percent a year before, above the projected 6.8 percent, …
Pune: The house sparrow is now the fourth most commonly-sighted bird in India, with the first three being the Rock Pigeon, which has emerged as the most common bird in India, the house crow and the common myna, as per the common-bird monitoring programme conducted by Nashik based non-governmental organization …
Urbanisation, Insecticides Pushing Winged Creatures Towards Extinction Lucknow: Many bird species once sighted commonly across Uttar Pradesh are now vanishing. The reasons could be many and diverse, but technology appears to be the biggest factor behind this threat looming over the feathered friends of man. First mynahs faced the extinction …
Some 1.2 billion people—almost a fifth of the world—live in areas of physical water scarcity, while another 1.6 billion face what can be called economic water shortage. The situation is only expected to worsen as population growth, climate change, investment and management shortfalls, and inefficient use of existing resources restrict …
The global population living in flood-prone river basins has increased 114% in the last 40 years, while the number of people located on coastlines exposed to cyclones has risen almost 200%, according to experts. In a meeting on risk reduction at the Special Thematic Session on Water and Disasters, convened …
The rapid pace of urbanization and development of infrastructure in big cities is bound to result in the growth of electricity demand by the end of 12th plan and during 13th plan. During the brain storming session and 1st meeting of 18th EPS Committee need was felt to carry out …
The report, “The Business Case for Green Building: A Review of the Costs and Benefits for Developers, Investors and Occupants,” examines whether or not it’s possible to attach a financial value to the cost and benefits of green buildings. Today, green buildings can be delivered at a price comparable to …
Eighty per cent of sewage in India is untreated and flows directly into the nation’s rivers, polluting the main sources of drinking water, a study by an environment watchdog showed Tuesday. Indian cities produce nearly 40,000 million litres of sewage every day and barely 20 percent of it is treated, …
China is likely to roll out a layout this year to guide the country's urbanization drive to advance in an "orderly and healthy" way, a senior economic official said Wednesday. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the top economic planner, is coordinating related authorities to compile the layout, which …
Mangroves for the Future (MFF) Programme has approved small-sized project funding, worth upto US$10,000, for NGOs and CBOs working for the development of the coastal communities in Sindh and Balochistan. MFF Coordinator Ghulam Qadir Shah, sharing details of the scheme told APP on Monday that the approved projects would be …
Is urban India drowning in its own excreta? Nearly 80 per cent of the sewage generated in India flows untreated into its rivers, lakes and ponds, turning the water sources too polluted to use. The end result: groundwater in almost the entire country has nitrate levels higher than the prescribed …
Standing Committee on Urban Development present this 23rd Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on "The Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending)Bill, 2012" pertaining to the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation. The Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending)Bill, 2012 introduced in Lok …
India is about to breach the $2 trillion GDP mark, as it works its way through the lower end of the middle-income-nation spectrum. We have yet to recognise that the economic output of a large state like Maharashtra is now as large as the entire Indian economy in the early …
At night, a few thousand feet above sea level, I see India's city lights glow. The nation of 'seven hundred thousand villages' now has nearly a third of its people living in about 8,000 urban areas. On the ground too, the varied stories told by India's cities and towns are …
