Give landscape its due

Ravindra Bhan is one of the country’s pioneer landscape architects. From establishing a programme in landscape architecture at the School …

Let’s play with mud

Using earth to develop modern, sustainable buildings

A window to well-being

Natural ventilation is a good way to perk up life

Home truths

Buildings in India rarely follow quake codes

Is it a matter of governance?

Changing colours of business

Skyscrapers rise on lakebed

Developers want to build further  

Mayors of the world unite

Want to lead failing climate talks  

Too cool for comfort

How rising incomes are lowering room temperatures at the cost of energy, health and comfort

Building dreams for homeless

Government promises land to the homeless in its draft Homestead Bill, but where’s the land?

Private project in public park

Residents of Vadodara protest construction of a multimedia laser fountain in a heritage park

High Court’s blow to Lavasa

Urban poor to get flats in multi-storeys

Inklings of politics in urban India

Stressed city fathers

Book>> Costs and challenges of local urban services, evidence from India's cities by Kala Seetharam Sridhar and Om Prakash Mathur Price Rs 695

Energy wise, resource foolish

Most eco-friendly claims of Indira Paryavaran Bhawan are hogwash

Whose flat is it anyway

Resettlement of slum dwellers remains confined to political agenda

For a green house

New coastal rules draft made public

Fishers say proposed CRZ notification does not recognize their rights

Lighting up hearts

A hospital for cardiac patients in Ahmedabad is sunlit to cheer up patients. It saves energy, too

Playing with sea

Flouting laws, over 90 hotels have mushroomed on what once was a pristine beach in West Bengal

Lavasa accepts green riders, finally

It had challenged the conditions, saying it would amount to guilt  

Courting trouble

Mumbai sources out city planning

Stepsons of the Ganga

A fascinating account of the men who ply the emblematic boats of Banaras and embody its very essence