Road to chaos

The beginning of uncontrolled consumerism is the end of a planned city

Remembering act

Measures to measure

The ecological cost of highway to my village

How construction of a road led to economical, cultural shift in my village in Jaunpur 

Denial of the rural

To pull down or not

Radio Tower>> Architecture • Russia

From the blurbs

5,000 families protest slum razing

One died during forced eviction  

High on skyscrapers

Book>> Triumph of the city: How our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier, and happier • by Edward Glaeser &…

Meltdown

Till a couple of decades ago Bangalore was a sleepy city -- running to the rhythm of old trading networks and retired people taking their evening …

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 …

No to reclamation

Cities in a Globalizing World: Global report on Human Settlement 2001

Land diversion

Builders bending bhoodan rules in Gujarat

A purge for choking cities

URBANISATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: BASIC SERVICES AND COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION Edited by Bidyut Mohanty Publisher: Concept Publishing Co Price: …

Urban villages - an oxymoron?

Urbanisation in developing countries is marked by large increases in population and has consequences such as sprawl. As a physical phenomenon, …

Recreating Denmark

Computer Game>> Real Estate • Denmark

Cool cover

New panel can make buildings reflect heat, cut cooling cost

Counting them in

A concrete facelift

Fishers at bay

When it was introduced in 1991, Coastal Regulation Zone was a blanket notification to protect India's coast and fisherfolk. In 17 years, it was …

From the blurbs

CHINA

Market towns in the Hindu-Kush Himalayas: Trends and Issues

Tale of many cities