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India’s Urban Planning-There are no shortcuts

Better urban planning always plays a key role in improving design and development of a city. Enhancing planning requires advanced…

5 years ago

Innovate to address urban issues

Chennai beats Delhi in pollution, records ‘very poor’ air quality’ read a headline early this month. Clearly the issue of…

5 years ago

GANDHI.city

Mahatma Gandhi’s ideas on self-rule, community relations, sanitation, villages, non-violence and peace always invoke inspiration, reverence among people world over.…

5 years ago

‘SWARAJ’, the Gandhi way

Mahatma Gandhi introduced the concept of ‘Swaraj’ during the British regime. His ideology of ‘Swaraj’ was to empower people and…

5 years ago

Why was sanitation so important to Gandhi?

Cleanliness and sanitation remained a central theme of Mahatma’s teachings. Gandhi compared cleanliness to godliness and even put sanitation above…

5 years ago

Gandhi @ 150

The Mahatma’s 150th birth anniversary can become the launch pad for a cleaner, healthier, more innovative, and ecologically responsible India…

5 years ago

Can Delhi serve 40m people?

The population of a city plays an important role in driving its economy. A city like Delhi, the second-most populous…

5 years ago

Cities need to change as demography changes

India is among the few countries where more people are still living in villages than in cities. There are many…

5 years ago

OVERPOPULATED!

The growing population in cities is filling the towering skyscrapers and sprawling slums. We will not be overhyping if we…

5 years ago

Cities in festive times

The air in our cities is full of celebration and gaiety. Yes, the festival season is already here and will…

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