What urban planners today can learn from Leonardo da Vinci’s 15th-century ‘ideal city’ design

The Renaissance artist’s city contained design features and engineering works not realised until hundreds of years after he died.

Alessandro Melis, The Conversation

· May 07, 2019 · 09:30 pm

Five maps show why Bengaluru is becoming more congested, parched and polluted

State agencies that provide civic amenities have not kept pace with the city’s expansion and property developers have added to the problem.

Kuwar Singh, qz.com

· Feb 03, 2019 · 01:30 pm

India’s missing middle: Large villages are losing out on growth opportunities because of ‘rural’ tag

These grey settlements, classified as large and very large villages in Census 2011, are home to around 190 million people.

Arindam Jana, IndiaSpend.com

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Archita S, IndiaSpend.com

· Jan 23, 2019 · 07:30 pm

Singapore’s plan to dig up a historic cemetery for a highway has angered citizens

Bukit Brown is scheduled to be cleared for housing by 2030.

Rina Chandran, Thomson Reuters Foundation

· Jan 07, 2019 · 11:30 pm

In the UK, cities are charging workplaces for parking spaces to help fund local infrastructure

The workplace parking levy is a simple idea, but tricky to implement.

Stephen Parkes, The Conversation

· Oct 05, 2018 · 08:30 pm

Can China’s Xiong’an New Area really live up to its billing as the ‘city of the future’?

Perhaps not.

Li Jing

· Jul 15, 2018 · 11:30 pm

Pune tops list in urban governance survey, Bengaluru and Chennai among bottom five

The civic bodies of Kolkata and Thiruvananthapuram also performed well in the Annual Survey of India’s City-Systems.

Scroll Staff

· Mar 15, 2018 · 08:59 am

What exactly is a smart city? The Indian government does not want you to know

It thwarted the Bureau of Indian Standards’ plan to fix clear criteria for defining a smart city, and came out with a fuzzy ‘Liveability Index’ instead.

Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava

· Sep 04, 2017 · 09:00 am

What India’s cash-strapped municipalities can learn from Pune’s new revenue formula

The civic body raised Rs 200 crores on Monday from the sale of municipal bonds – a first in India in 14 years.

Devika Kher

· Jul 01, 2017 · 08:00 am

Thiruvananthapuram, Bengaluru, Patna and Jammu on Centre’s third Smart Cities list

Union minister Venkaiah Naidu announced a proposed investment of Rs 57,393 crore in this batch of 30 cities.

Scroll Staff

· Jun 23, 2017 · 11:24 am

Watch this hilarious mockumentary on people who supposedly want Bengaluru's steel flyover

'This film gives a voice to those people who are rarely heard in the popular media...the imaginary ones.'

Scroll Staff

· Jan 28, 2017 · 01:00 pm

Watch: This incredible time-lapse video tracks men in Japan repairing massive sinkhole

The sinkhole vanished in days, thanks to determined workers.

Scroll Staff

· Nov 18, 2016 · 04:00 pm