Page 2 - Urbanisation

India Coronavirus Dispatch: Are politicians potential super-spreaders?

Younger caseload, older fatalities in Punjab, Bihar polls may be held on schedule, informal schools become centres of learning--news on how the country is coping with the pandemic

Letter to BS: Protect Western Ghats from turning into a concrete jungle

Already, many parts of the Ghats have suffered due to urbanisation and no more damage to them should be permitted even for rail links.

The sociology of the slowdown

The last economics guy to take sociology into account was Milton Friedman, says the author

Visual and textual artists show how Mumbai's urbanism is shifting

'The Shifting City' reflects without much judgement the refashioning of Mumbai's spaces

India's urban challenge

Cities create the space for structural and spatial transformation, entrepreneurship, and achieve a faster pace of economic growth and job creation

India must build new Chicago every year to meet urban demand: Hardeep Puri

Puri stressed that India still had to build 70 per cent of the new urban infrastructure required by 2030 and this has to be green and resilient

'Rent to own' scheme: One of the ways to fix housing deficit in urban areas

All schemes for addressing India's housing shortage zero in on property purchases, but rental housing has not made much headway despite its importance

Poorly planned urbanisation pattern may impose $1.8 trillion cost

A report finds that Indian cities that were more compact in 2002 experienced faster economic growth from 2002-2012