Affordable housing market to benefit greatly from demonitisation: Experts
Over the last decade, India’s real estate market had seen a sharp appreciation in prices owing to a variety of reasons. In the early 2000s, it was the under-ownership of homes coupled with easy...
View ArticleNigeria: Fire and demolitions that left 30, 000 homeless must be urgently...
The Lagos State authorities must take immediate steps to provide alternative accommodation for as many as 30,000 people who were made homeless, in direct contravention of a court order, when their...
View ArticleGensler Teams Up with Universities to Address Informal Urban Settlements
IDH: What are you working on, specifically?Sumita: We are developing a planning tool kit that is anticipatory and that can be applied to rapidly urbanizing cities in emerging economies. We’re doing...
View ArticleChina Economy Holds Ground Amid Curbs to Cool Housing Market
China’s economy held ground last month following new measures to cool property markets in almost two dozen big cities.
View ArticleGarbage Burning: 20, 000 affected by smoke, stench from burning garbage
Smoke and stench from piles of burning garbage have affected over 20,000 people in Chikhli, Pimpri Chinchwad city.Vikas Sane, social worker and president of Chikhli Moshi Housing Society Federation,...
View ArticleIndia International Trade Fair: Cities need design-literate people at the...
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View ArticlePanchayati Raj: ‘Smart grams’ to be developed in two phases
After 'smart cities', comes the turn of Haryana's villages to don a spiffy look.The state's five villages that have been adopted by President Pranab Mukherjee, will be developed into 'smart grams' in...
View ArticleCommunity Power: Fighting to Remain in Rural America II
Tyrone is one of many families concerned for the future of family-owned small farms and land. In this impoverished region of the Black Belt, where agriculture and timber industries dominate the...
View ArticleSmart homes - an integral part of our future-ready smart cities
The concept of ‘smart’ must be blended in the soul of a smart city. Each building block should be placed with this concept at the heart of it, building blocks that lead to smart homes being created to...
View ArticleBreathing life into architecture
Over the past year, Mr. Bhatia has criss-crossed the country, travelling from Chandigarh to Amristar, Bhopal, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi and Thiruvananthapuram before reaching Puducherry.He...
View ArticleAll-India police housing corp conference starts tomorrow
The fifth All India Police Housing Corporation Conference would be organised on November 15-16 at Swarn Jyanti auditorium of RCVP Noronha Academy of Administration.Conference is organised after every...
View ArticleMoU with Ministry of Urban Development For Development of Railway Stations
An MOU has been entered into between Ministry of Railways (MOR) and Ministry of Urban Development (MOUD) for integrated planning of railway stations in the cities included in the SMART Cities and AMRUT...
View ArticleGhats await Smart City funds for maintenance
NASHIK: The seven concrete ghats constructed on the banks of the Godavari are in a sorry state, just a year after they were built for the Kumbh Mela.
View ArticleNew Open Access Book: Drawing Futures: Speculations in Contemporary Drawing...
Drawing Futures brings together international designers and artists for speculations in contemporary drawing for art and architecture.
View ArticleNew Issue of Urbanities – Journal of Urban Ethnography
Urbanities Volume 6, Number 2, November 16, 2016Urbanities is an open-access peer-reviewed international academic journal launched in 2011. It is published on-line twice a year, in May and in November,...
View ArticleStop the sprawl, teach slum dwellers to build skywards: leading Pakistani...
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Architects and planners in rapidly growing cities must work with slum dwellers to build skywards and create high-rise, self-built housing blocks, a leading...
View ArticleIndigenous Interfaces: Spaces, Social Networks & Indigenous Identities in...
Edited Volume: Indigenous Interfaces: Spaces, Social Networks & Indigenous Identities in Latin AmericaGlobalization has accelerated the transformation of everything, including culture, as a...
View ArticleSecond Fiddles in Medieval Rituals
This conference addresses the role, status and performance of secondary actors in medieval rituals, thus enabling us to diversify and deepen our understanding of rituals in pre-modern societies....
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