Urbanisation

Artist Lal Bahadur Singh, who grew up in UP’s Ghazipur, says ‘I’m presenting my human society through the figures of birds and animals’ about his exhibition ‘Silent Echoes of a Flight Beyond… and Whispers of the Earth Beneath…’ at Delhi’s Gallerie Nvya.

Smart Cities: 9 years on, over 20% of the cities have 25% of the work pending

Among the larger states, Telangana had the lowest completion rate of 60.7 percent, while Jharkhand had 100 percent completion and Odisha and Karnataka had 97 percent completion.

Telecom, data centres, power electronics bank on rapid urbanisation for 5G-driven growth

Reliance and Airtel are almost ready with their 5G capacity expansion and power electronics companies are gearing up for growth. The planning of urban nodes needs to lead the charge, if India’s growth has to be streamlined

Government to set up 8 new cities to ease population burden: Report

The government is yet to finalise locations for the new cities and their development timelines, as per the report.

MC Explains: What is Smart Cities Mission, and why has it been extended by a year?

The objective of the Smart City Mission is to promote cities that provide core infrastructure, clean and sustainable environment and give a decent quality of life to their citizens through the application of 'smart solutions'.

Build signature buildings aimed at building signature lives: MoHUA additional secretary

By 2047, India is estimated to have 70 percent new buildings. This is a great opportunity for the real estate sector.

Riverfronts command the highest returns on investment: Sabarmati Riverfront Development Corp Chairman

Srinagar city may become the model for city renewal for the country. Developing the Jhelum riverfront while restoring the built heritage on it, says Keshav Verma.

Size of urban sector to double in next 25 years, says housing ministry official

The demand for Grade A premium office assets is also likely to increase to 1.2 billion sq. ft. by 2030 in India

Youth creating, tweaking, remodelling global template for urban space: Hardeep Puri

Hardeep Puri said that the full economic benefits of urbanisation can only be reaped by harnessing technology and innovative solutions to address the legacy challenges in cities.

Budget 2023: Build new cities, it is what our future demands of the present

By 2051, India may have an additional 335 million urban population. Several new cities will be needed to settle them

MC Explains: All you need to know about the SC order banning ‘apartmentalisation’ of Corbusian Chandigarh

The SC order says that permitting redensification of Phase­-I of the city comprising Sectors 1 to 30, which enjoys heritage value on account of being ‘Corbusian Chandigarh,’ without the plan being approved by the Chandigarh Heritage Conservation Committee, was contrary to the Chandigarh Master Plan (CMP)­ 2031. In 2016, UNESCO had conferred heritage status on the Capitol Complex, designed by Swiss-French architect Corbusier.

Urbanisation going to be key, says NITI CEO Parameswaran Iyer

Addressing an event organised by industry body FICCI, Iyer said many states have done wonderful work in solid waste management.

Urbanisation | Floods will continue to inundate India’s unplanned city development

The imbalance between the city’s infrastructure and the rate of development contributes to challenges such as inadequate drainage system, waterlogging, encroachment of water bodies, and more

Urbanisation, even in India’s ‘Silicon Valley’, must align with nature

There cannot be a one-stroke approach to urbanisation, whether it is horizontal or vertical, in a country as vast as India with cities having different natural features and economies. Each has its merits and demerits

Bengaluru, nation’s pride, laid low by private greed 

A way to go ahead with some consensus is to activate ward committees in which citizens participate in decision making and buy into initiating what is good for them

Gentrifying factory belts: Everything you wanted to know about Delhi’s luxury housing projects on mill lands

Several industrial areas and mill lands in the Capital have given way to premium residential projects. Developers say affordable housing can come up and reduce migration to NCR towns, provided conversion charges are reduced and infrastructure is improved

Facilitate Tier 2 and 3 cities to take on the mantle in the future: Niti Aayog-ADB report

It notes that land acquisition is a challenge and that there is a need to explore alternative models for land acquisition and assembly and consider relaxation of building bye-laws that may be constraining the supply of land.

Centre sets up expert panel to train 5000 urban planners in the next five years 

British architect Edwin Lutyens may have been riding an elephant as he surveyed what is today’s Central Delhi, but modern-day urban planners need to be well versed in satellite imagery, use drone technology for more precise city planning and be aware of climate change issues.

Every lake has a story

Lakes are in distress in urban India. With the demand for real estate skyrocketing and the groundwater table touching new lows, many good samaritans are fighting to give a new lease of life to these fast disappearing water bodies. 

How can India urbanise when planners are in short supply?

Even as the government acknowledges the shortage of urban planners to meet the needs of a rapidly urbanising India, an immediate start to the diagnostic study of urbanisation is critical

Let’s build resilient urban centres with data-driven governance

With the smart city swing causing the integration of data in urban management, a promising approach being adopted is data-driven governance — one where data is leveraged in the planning, management, and decision-making aspects of governance 

Budget 2022 | FM aims for land record digitisation, focuses on urban settlements near transit systems

Urban planning cannot continue with a business-as-usual approach; paradigm change needed: FM

65% of 7,933 urban settlements do not have any master plan: Niti Aayog report

It recommends that every city must aspire to become a Healthy city for all by 2030 and suggests a central sector scheme, 500 Healthy Cities Programme, for a period of five years

Niti Aayog Vice Chairman emphasises need to reduce carbon footprint in urbanisation

Releasing a report on 'Reforms In Urban Planning', Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar said there is a compelling need to plug the gaps in urban-planning capacity in the country.

Draft Delhi Master Plan-2041 falls short of making the capital an inclusive city

The master plan needs to address the diversity of the informal sector and the requirements of subsistence urban workers. it is imperative to rephrase its vision to "a sustainable, inclusive, liveable and vibrant Delhi"