Urban

Here’s how gender, caste, class, and more shape who can access public spaces in Indian cities, and why that needs to change.

Over the last decade, public participation in urban governance has evolved rapidly. Here’s how cities can effectively give citizens a stake in decision-making.

India's rapid urbanisation, limited governance capacities, and lack of climate-friendly policies hinder its path to carbon neutrality. Here's how this can change.

Why platform workers need to be included in urban employment guarantee schemes, and what we can do about this.

The urban challenges of small towns are different from those of larger cities. Urban planning needs to account for these unique vulnerabilities.

Indian cities are plagued by poor planning. To remedy this, a recent NITI Aayog report suggests reviewing outdated city plans, encouraging citizen participation, and strengthening local leadership.

What makes a city liveable? Who should benefit the most from the growth of a city—financial investors or its residents? In this episode, Sheela Patel, director of SPARC, and Ireena Vittal, former partner at McKinsey, answer these questions and more.

Poor water governance has cut off several residents from Mumbai's water system, making equal access to all a distant dream.

Fatigue, despair, and deep mistrust in the system is creating vaccine hesitancy among the people of Shivaji Nagar, one of Mumbai's most underdeveloped neighbourhoods

Chile, Brazil and the US issue ‘rental vouchers’ to low-income groups, which can be exchanged in lieu of rent in formal, private housing.