cities
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COP29 focused on making cities sustainable but overlooked concerns of a key group – the urban poor
Mercy Austin
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Why India needs to rethink its love for pigeons
Vaishnavi Rathore
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A new book shows how the Covid-19 pandemic worsened structural inequalities in Indian cities
Gautam Bhan Susan Parnell Michael Keith Edgar Pieterse
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A new book brings stories from Govandi, Mumbai to show how marginalisation is effected in cities
Nisha Nair-Gupta
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Why are so many young Indians trading in cryptocurrency, especially in tier-two cities?
Mitali Mukherjee
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Why property and private vehicles should be taxed higher in India for equitable urban development
Karthik Muralidharan
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Eco India, Episode 253: How can growing cities bring back their ecological heritage?
Scroll Staff
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‘The Dream Builders’: How modern cities kill the dreams they promise their less-fortunate residents
Saloni Sharma
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A new book asks why a particular set of cities in India being renamed (and other related questions)
Ziya Us Salam
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How Kerala’s Kozhikode became India’s first UNESCO City of Literature
Diya Isha
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‘Colossus’: An easy-to-read academic book about the ever-expanding city (and state) of Delhi
Prerna Vij
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Watch: These miniature versions of real Polish cities are made of gingerbread
Scroll Staff
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A new book traces the shared roots of Cubbon Park and Bengaluru, and what the future holds for them
Roopa Pai
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How Calcutta’s first modern drains were built by The Lottery Committee in the early 1800s
Ranabir Ray Choudhury
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Climate change: How can India’s concretised, dangerously hot cities be cooled down sustainably?
OP Agarwal Jaya Dhindaw Raj Bhagat Palanichamy
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‘Delhi, In Thy Name’: An unusual history of India’s capital is revealed by its neighbourhoods
Kanupriya Dhingra
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How the state pushes people’s protests into designated spaces to prevent them from being effective
Mamta Mantri Anoop Kumar
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Watch: Women of fishing community of Kolis protest against construction of Mumbai’s Coastal Road
Scroll Staff
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Before the pandemic and (maybe) after: A catalogue of what cities lose
Parimal Bhattacharya
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‘A for Prayagraj’: This biography of Allahabad is a modern story of an old city
Udbhav Agarwal