There is a need to look at city bariatrics — and articulate policies that disincentivise demographic density towards better urban sustainability.
A city’s inability to offer infrastructures that enable life, such as drinking water, conditions of hygiene, electricity and other such life-enabling amenities leads to very low ranking of such cities.
There are so many alternatives of financial inclusion.
BRTS recently received its first major setback in India, with the city of Pune abandoning its BRTS project by allowing private vehicles to enter the BRT lanes on certain routes. However, this may not be the end of BRTS just yet.
With most of the grant money being used to settle loans and pay salaries, populist moves ahead of the state election may prove to be counterproductive for Mumbai’s public transport service.
While saving lives is a laudable objective, good driving habits alone are not enough to bring down deaths. Quality of roads, competence and freshness level of the driver, vehicle fitness, road engineering, clear and visible signage and citizen awareness, all come into play.
The BRTS falls between two stools. It monopolises rare road space and heavily congests non-BRTS lanes.
India needs to seriously start looking at city roads through the real estate lens to make a case for public transport and address the problem of perennial traffic jams.
Unless India takes up urban planning with the seriousness it deserves, the future of some of the mega projects of the incumbent government such as the Smart Cities Mission, Swachh Bharat Mission, HRIDAY for heritage cities, Housing for All by 2022 and AMRUT are bound ...
Contract clauses of penalties and liquidated damages are bound to be pressed, leading to arbitration and legal battles.
A slew of reforms announced for Mumbai’s public transport buses can potentially change BEST’s fortunes, but doubts prevail.
If Africa’s development is handled wisely, it can bring about unprecedented transformation in the continent.
While steps are being taken to reduce air pollution at the national and state levels, cities could improve the national performance by introducing complementary initiatives.
Urbanisation is not the problem. It is actually the solution to achieving true sustainability and establishing a closed loop circular economy.
Several of India’s current laws ostensibly help women succeed in the workplace, but actually have the opposite effect of impeding growth and equality.
The process of urbanisation — if carried out in a planned, sustainable and inclusive manner — can potentially help India mitigate the impact of the all-pervasive caste system.
The need and desire for urban resilience is firmly established. It is time for actual actions.
These solutions have greater social and economic value than any other.
India’s metros are building an unenviable reputation for themselves through a series of man-made disasters.
Yogesh Joshi is a research fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies National University of Singapore. ...
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Yogesh Joshi is a research fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies National University of Singapore. ...
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