'Smart' Gandhinagar is now wired to the future
It may not have made it in the first two rounds of shortlist by the ministry of urban development (MoUD) but Gandhinagar has now become the first city in the country to go smart.
View ArticleAdarsh Housing Society scam hearing in SC today
New Delhi [India], Jan. 7 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday will continue the hearing in the Adarsh Housing Society case after the Bombay High Court expressed its dissatisfaction over a Central Bureau...
View ArticleChina blocks India’s Project Mausam
NEW DELHI, Jan 8: Another India’s ambitious initiative is facing stiff resistance from China.After blocking New Delhi entry into Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) as its permanent member and scuttling a...
View ArticleDesigns - global, yet desi
What connects the jaali, the jhoola and the cream-and-ochre pickle jar?
View ArticleThe rise of the cashless city: 'There is this real danger of exclusion'
Could we see a whole city go cash-free? From Seoul to Bergamo, cities big and small are at the forefront of a global drive to go digital.
View ArticlePM’s housing scheme in a state of disrepair
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flagship and ambitious project ‘Housing for All’ is moving at slow pace even one-and-a-half years after it was launched in June 2015. Only 7,000 houses have been...
View ArticleOnce upon a time in Mulberry Street … New York recalls romance of its past
There can be no more iconic photograph of Manhattan at its teeming, turn of the 20th century peak than the image of Mulberry Street taken by the famed documentarian Jacob Riis in 1900. “They are...
View ArticleJapan wishes to make Chennai as a ‘Smart City’
A leader in converting heritage cities into smart cities, Japan would also provide financial assistance in making Chennai ‘smart’ besides bringing its world-class transport facilities like better...
View ArticleHow a design for city living went wrong
Re your article (We need spaces to live but we also need places to make things, 7 January): twenty years ago Richard Rogers’ Towards an Urban Renaissance put sustainability at the core of a vision of...
View ArticleCity turns choice venue for super-computing meetings
The Super Computing Consortium of India would be organising its first ever meeting in the capital later this month. Another key event in this field would be the 30th international conference on VLSI...
View ArticleArchitecture and Society Series - Jan 18th - The Many Splendored City:...
Speaker: Shonaleeka Kaul, cultural historian of early South Asia specialising in Sanskrit literature & Associate Professor in the Centre for Historical Studies, JNU. The talk looks at multilayered...
View ArticleA ballad for Ballard Estate
To dine in a former ice factory, visit a prominent auction house or peek into Mumbai’s oldest photo studio, head to Ballard Estate. Here, the past, quite literally, stares you in the face, with wide,...
View ArticleGenpact and Cisco launch Center of Excellence in Jaipur
Genpact has unveiled the Global Center of Excellence in Jaipur as part of Cisco’s Lighthouse City project, a global initiative designed to deploy next-generation technologies to impact citizens and...
View ArticleClarity on PMAY, GST top budget 2017 wishlist
With Budget 2017 barely a few weeks away, stakeholders in the real estate sector have proposed a wish list asking for more clarity on beneficiaries who will avail housing loans with interest subsidies...
View ArticleIn 10 years, GIFT City should become a ‘price-setter’ in world’s largest...
Describing the inauguration of India’s first international exchange at GIFT City in Gujarat as an “important milestone”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday that in 10 years time he would like...
View ArticleWhat Planning Jargon Do You Want to See Disappear?
Like any subculture, urbanists and city planners and transportation nerds have their own jargon. ... I talked to a few transportation and planning experts from around the U.S. to come up with this list...
View ArticleOscar Niemeyer's Hotel Nacional reopens in Rio after 20 years
Designed by the late Niemeyer in the late 1960s and completed in 1972, the 33-storey Hotel Nacional overlooks the beach from the city's São Conrado neighbourhood.Cylindrical in form, the tower boasts...
View ArticleMIT Invented The Material We'll Need To Build In Space
The material is composed of graphene, a two-dimensional form of carbon that's considered to be the strongest of all known materials. But because the 2D form of graphene is so thin—it's only one atom...
View ArticleStreets, Routes, Methods I (Florence, 5-6 May 17)
Streets, Routes, Methods I: Reflections on Paths, Spaces and TemporalitiesA Conference organized by the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz and eikones NCCR Iconic Criticism, University of Basel by...
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