‘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

With incomplete details of water bodies, Chennai's master plan is a recipe for yet another disaster

With less than three months to go for the North East monsoons, the city does not seem any better prepared to tackle a flood-like situation.

Vinita Govindarajan

· Aug 19, 2016 · 10:30 am

Mumbai's planners propose ingenious way to create more open space: Just change the definition

Flowerbeds below flyovers and buffers along drains all count as open space in the proposed Development Plan that will guide the city's growth until 2034.

Hussain Indorewala and Shweta Wagh

· Jul 29, 2016 · 06:30 am

Lessons from the noise of urban innovation in Dhaka, the world’s second-least-liveable city

Bringing significant benefits to an emergent middle class, Dhaka's economic, environmental and political landscapes are being rapidly but unevenly transformed.

Teresa Swist, David Sweeting and Liam Magee, The Conversation

· Jun 20, 2016 · 03:30 pm

Water world: Can we learn to live with flooding?

Can cities be designed and adapted to live more flexibly with water – to treat it as friend rather than foe?

University of Cambridge

· Jun 15, 2016 · 10:30 pm

What a Harvard professor believes megacities can learn from the Kumbh Mela

Architecture teacher Rahul Mehrotra has co-edited a new book about the Allahabad Kumbh, the largest temporary settlement in the world.

Aarefa Johari

· Sep 19, 2015 · 06:30 pm