Category: India
Finding inspiration in the slums of Dharavi
[News] - Posted by: Nerisa Kamar - Mon 17 Jun, 2013 - Author(s):
In 2010, British TV show host Kevin McCloud chose to live in Dharavi for two weeks to understand why many urban planners and Prince Charles had declared the fetid slum a model for Western cities.
The show begins with a horrified McCloud focusing the viewers' attention on children playing amidst toxic waste and shanties located near a river of human excrement.
Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports: Urban Sports Infrastructure Scheme for Developing Sports Infrastructure in the Country
[News] - Posted by: Nerisa Kamar - Thu 13 Jun, 2013 - Author(s):
Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Govt. of India is implementing Urban Sports Infrastructure Scheme (USIS) to develop sports infrastructure in the country.
India Must Get Serious about Urban Planning
[News] - Posted by: Nerisa Kamar - Mon 3 Jun, 2013 - Author(s):
Mumbai can grow only vertically, not horizontally. Given this simple truth, the Maharashtra government cannot be faulted for asking the ministry of environment and forests to ease the restrictions on construction in the metropolis. Many building plans in the city have been delayed, some for years, because of their non-clearance. It is ironic that a ministry, which is responsible for protecting forests, is also entrusted with clearing building plans in a city bursting at its seams.
National Consultation on Urban Poverty Issues, Challenges and Opportunities – 20 – 21 June 2013, Delhi
[Event] - Posted by: Nerisa Kamar - Mon 3 Jun, 2013Undoubtedly we all are participants of the urbanising India which is growing in massive scale and pace and is developing to be the main contributor towards India’s GDP. However, the unpleasant dimension of this phenomenon is the ‘urbanisation of poverty’ hitting our cities and developing small and medium towns. Poverty has become synonym with deprived right to shelter, social and physical infrastructure, livelihood, security and even dignity of life.
Urban planners discuss future of racecourse
[News] - Posted by: Nerisa Kamar - Wed 29 May, 2013 - Author(s): , Nergish Sunavala TNN
Before the Mahalaxmi racecourse was established at its present site, industrialist Cusrow N Wadia went by ship to Australia to study a famous Melbourne racecourse.
He returned armed with blueprints and the required know-how to set up a world-class racing facility.
He even advanced a substantial, interest-free loan to facilitate the process.
Ministry of Urban Development: India and Netherlands sign MoU on Technical Cooperation in Urban Planning and Management
[News] - Posted by: Nerisa Kamar - Thu 16 May, 2013 - Author(s):Shri Kamal Nath, Minister for Urban Development & Parliamentary Affairs, and Ms Melanie Schultz van Haegen, Minister for Infrastructure and
Coimbatore City Development Plan with public participation soon
[News] - Posted by: Nerisa Kamar - Wed 15 May, 2013 - Author(s): , Karthik Madhavan
The Coimbatore Corporation will soon prepare and issue a questionnaire for seeking inputs from members of the public, non government organisations, trade and industry bodies, councillors and others for drafting the City Development Plan (CDP).
Even focus groups like architects’ association would be part of the exercise.
According to sources in the Corporation, the civic body had sometime ago asked the agency preparing the CDP to come out with the questionnaire.
