India needs to rethink Master Planning – and Delhi can lead the way

The case for a livelihood-centred approach.

Shalini Sinha

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Malavika Narayan

· Dec 03, 2019 · 06:30 am

Patna deluge wasn’t caused by climate change alone. Government ineptness was also to blame

Officials don’t even have a map of the city’s colonial-era sewage system.

Alok Gupta

· Oct 10, 2019 · 08:30 pm

‘Mumbai coastal road plan reflects elite’s lack of vision’: Interview with planner Rahul Mehrotra

The expensive infrastructure project will not solve the problems proponents claim it will, says the Harvard professor.

Naresh Fernandes

· Aug 24, 2019 · 09:00 am

The Mumbai Fire Brigade gets one emergency call every day to report a structural collapse

‘Safety is not a law, it is a culture.’ That’s where Maximum City falls short.

Chaitanya Mallapur, IndiaSpend.com

· Jul 19, 2019 · 08:30 pm

As ‘degrowth’ of cities becomes a reality across the world, urban planning needs a rethink

Degrowth requires us to reopen the urban planners’ toolbox.

Daniel Florentin, The Conversation

· Feb 07, 2019 · 09:30 pm

‘Goa is drowning like Mumbai’: Monsoon flooding is the cost of runaway development, say residents

The coastal state has seen widespread flooding this past month, not just in the towns but also in semi-urban areas and villages.

Pamela D’Mello

· Jul 14, 2018 · 10:30 am

SC rejects Centre’s plea against order to consult Delhi’s residents on Master Plan 2021

The master plan is a blueprint for urban planning and expansion in the national Capital.

Scroll Staff

· May 24, 2018 · 03:20 pm

Video: Why half of Mumbai lives in slums even as 500,000 houses lie empty

Both the public and private sector have been unable to provide housing for the urban poor.

Shone Satheesh

· May 13, 2018 · 10:17 am

Women and the city: It’s time to rethink urban planning from a gender-based perspective

Women deserve to live in cities that treat them equally, respond to their needs and reduce opportunities of violence.

Ana Falú, The Conversation

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Saskia Sassen, The Conversation

· Jan 11, 2018 · 01:30 pm

Watch: Relocated slum residents in Mumbai are choking on a cocktail of lethal toxins

Many families have fallen sick and lost a member after moving to the heavily polluted Mahul.

Shone Satheesh

· Dec 03, 2017 · 04:00 pm

Can India’s poorly planned cities, with their faulty storm water drains, withstand extreme weather?

From Chennai to Mumbai and Gurgaon, floods wreak havoc every monsoon – and our cities show no climate resilience.

Vinita Govindarajan

· Jul 27, 2017 · 09:00 am

Why engineering interventions won’t prevent another flood in Chennai

A reorientation of values in which common areas like canals, rivers and grasslands are valued more than ports, power plants, highways may help avert disaster.

Nityanand Jayaraman

· Sep 07, 2016 · 12:30 pm