Most cities have suffered because of CEOs who keep changing or have additional responsibilities and charges that make it difficult to focus exclusively on the Smart City projects.
India’s smart cities aim to provide essential infrastructure, decent quality of life, sustainable environment and smart solutions for citizens — to do more with less! Take a quick look at what the top 5 chosen cities are prioritising in the process.
The new design by WRI India, implemented on a temporary basis, intends to change the current approach of designing intersections – from one that prioritises motor vehicles to one that considers all road users.
A new study by the Housing and Land Rights Network (HRLN) finds the government scheme seriously lacking in inclusivity and social justice. Patralekha Chatterjee reports.
Is it possible to ‘pool land’, share it as a common resource and build an entire city on this ideal imagination? Divya Dua looks at the Amaravati model and what it has to offer.
When we talk about a cadre of municipal professionals for smart cities and urban local bodies, it would be good for such professionals to be a part of respective trade guilds created by due legislation, says Anirban Choudhury.
Innovative Participatory Aquifer Mapping project seeks to educate residents about precious groundwater and also involve them in sharing information about borewells in their communities.
The recent large-scale protests against a proposed steel flyover in Bengaluru has been in the news nationally. Could this large scale mobilisation of people in the cause of sustainable urban mobility be a trend-setter?
Pedestrians struggle on our city roads without safe walkways. Can there be a win-win economic model to incentivise private developers to build such public infrastructure?
