Drab public housing ideal for a climate retrofit
Eastern Europe’s ubiquitous prefab housing blocks have potential for mass climate change adaptation
Lessons from COVID-19: Need better demand estimation factors to provide housing for all
Physical distancing as well as home quarantining have changed the housing standardisation game; an overhaul is needed
Manoj Roy on housing for poor in Dhaka
Manoj Roy teaches sustainability science at Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University. He talks about how Dhaka is going through a …
Real estate: Market happy, but civil society finds it lacking
External commercial borrowings in low-income housing projects will become unaffordable, they say
How India’s ‘slum-free’ redevelopment fails residents by ignoring their design insights and needs
Housing design alone cannot change the persistent structural inequality faced by residents
Affordable housing a thrust area, says FM
Experts remain doubtful if the poor will benefit from the incentives offered in the budget
Nowhere!
Three months after Gujarat was flattened by an earthquake, the state government goes in for a relocation plan to satisfy the builder's lobby
India can’t have a piece-meal approach of fighting only food security or climate change
Any effective solution to mitigate climate change in India must take in to account poverty, inadequate food distribution and lack of basic shelter
Homing in on tradition
Traditional models of architecture, especially for mass housing purposes, may yet be resurrected
Why Union Budget 2022-23 falls short in addressing gaps to build disaster resilience
The budgetary allocations under relief on account of natural calamities and MGNREGA have been decreased; this will affect the country in building …
Krack-a-Dawna: How a young couple pioneered natural farming in Mysuru
Today, after 37 years, Vivek and Julie are involved in helping mitigate rural problems through activism and policy
Clay ceilings
Burnt clay comes in as a handy material for constructing timberless roofs in rural housing projects in Wardha, Maharashtra
Tile tales
An innovative tile that could go a long way in reducing the cost of housing construction has been developed in the African country of Cote d'Ivoire
COVID-19 rekindles concerns on Kashmir’s infrastructure, social behaviour
Earthquakes, floods, conflict and COVID-19 pandemic have underlined the suitability of existing housing infrastructure in urban areas of Kashmir
Quaking, 1108 aftershocks later
The Indian plate is underthrusting the Eurasian plate by 4 to 5 centimetres a year. But our scientists move even slower. Are they waiting for the …
Safe as houses
Earthquakes don't kill; badly built houses do. A look into houses in India that have withstood several earthquakes
Delhi’s (and India’s) urban poor may have houses to live. But are they habitable
The habitability of housing, rather than just its availability, will be an important factor in the future, given the trends in climate change
What Nigerian cities can learn from the rest of the world
The rapid rate of urban population growth, fuelled by massive rural to urban migration, has overwhelmed public sector resources in the country
The more Asians migrate to cities, the more it will help tigers, says study
Researchers from a prominent non-profit feel that Asia's increasing urbanisation and rapid demographic transition could mean that tiger range …
Doing away with wood
In Niger and Mali, where timber is scarce and expensive, mud building is making a headway, thanks to the efforts of a French organisation called …
Eco-friendly building
BUILD YOUR HOUSE TO THE RHYTHM OF LIFE Vinoo Kaley Bliarat Jan Gyan Vigyan Jatha National Organising Council
Unfriendly neighbourhoods
In their rush to meet the housing requirements of cities, planners are turning a blind eye to the quality of the built environment
COVID-19: What it is to ‘work from home’ for women waste-pickers
Most housing units in Bhalaswa village have not been upgraded to support informal waste work. This impacts women’s productivity, …
Where will these railway track dwellers of Delhi live after eviction
Already living in filth, misery, disease and hunger, will they now be deprived of the only places they call home?
Zurich is world’s most sustainable city, according to a new index
100 global cities were ranked according to their performance on three parameters—people, planet and profit