All processes at NHB have been fully automated
The National Housing Bank (NHB) has surpassed its disbursement target of ₹20,000 crore envisaged for the current year, Sriram Kalyanaraman, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, said.
View ArticleThe Broad: Class Hatred, Concentrated
Developers’ dreams notwithstanding, this remains a weird and uncomfortable part of the city, nestled as it is between multiple freeways and the massive homeless encampment that is Skid Row. There are...
View ArticleSH Raza, legendary modern Indian artist passes away
Modern Indian artist S H Raza died in New Delhi on Friday following a prolonged illness.He was 94. Raza was suffering from old-age related ailments and was in the ICU of a private hospital for the last...
View ArticleSingapore in Sonepat
In the 1990s, the glass-and-steel tower transformed the skyline. But how have our cities fared in the age of soaring ambition?
View ArticleIndian construction industry asked to increase use of steel
India's massive construction sector must increase the use of structural steel to accelerate the development of commercial and residential complexes while retaining the indigenous cultural appearances,...
View ArticleFrank Lloyd Wright sites don't make cut for UN World Heritage List
....The committee was "very encouraging" but cited a series of issues, mostly technical, as the reason it did not list the Wright properties, Janet Halstead, executive director of the Chicago-based...
View ArticleCow fetish doesn't go with Modi's Smart Cities and Digital India outlook
The decades-old reputation of the Jana Sangh and its successor, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as a Brahmin-Bania party has been reinforced by a series of recent events.First, its ministers --...
View ArticleHow will a SPV in a smart city work?
Government has a view to let the development of smart cities be taken up by special purpose vehicles created by the state and municipal bodies
View ArticleAfter three smart cities, MP to get 60 smart villages
Sector focus on smart villages will be on climate change, smart energy, agriculture and water.
View ArticleSmart Cities ping the most on MyGov
In its two years of existence, it’s the campaigns promoted by the government that have fared well on the platform
View ArticleThe Shrinking of Bombay
India’s financial capital was a global city long before 1991. Liberalisation changed it in other insidious ways.
View ArticleArchitecture’s Odd Couple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson
Their combined lives more than spanned the 20th century – the civil war was only two years over when Wright was born and Johnson survived nearly two years after George W Bush invaded Iraq. Between them...
View ArticlePeshawar’s architectural jewel opens its doors for all
This was the area where the Sethi family settled when it arrived in Peshawar in the 1730s. Historians recall that the Sethi family belonged to the trading class and “transacted international business,...
View ArticleSteel demand to grow 6 per cent in FY17, outlook bright: JSW Steel
MUMBAI: JSW Steel expects domestic steel demand to grow by about 6 per cent in 2016-17, adding that the long-term outlook for the sector continues to be bright. "Despite temporary challenges, country's...
View ArticleColumbus: “No light rail for us, please — just loads and loads of driverless...
Not everyone is buying in to the city of Columbus' vision for the future of transportation.
View ArticleTim Kaine's Urbanist Bona Fides
The former governor and mayor has a decent record of fighting sprawl.
View ArticleThe War Against Micro-housing is Over. Micro-housing Lost.
Our practice is deeply involved in micro-housing – as architects, as developers, and as proponents in the public policy sphere. Getting these projects done has become an ever-increasing uphill battle....
View ArticleBoyle Heights Activists Demand That All Art Galleries Get the Hell Out of...
"We have one pretty simple demand,"says Maga Miranda, an activist with the group Defend Boyle Heights, "which is for all art galleries in Boyle Heights to leave immediately and for the community to...
View ArticleQ&A: Architect Michael Ford is designing the Universal Hip Hop Museum
Madison architectural designer and Madison College professor Mike Ford ... is involved in a much more positive connection between architecture and hip-hop. He’s the architect for the Universal Hip Hop...
View ArticleSmart city revenues skyrocket; core problems remain
Revenues driven from five key areasThe report examined growth of the smart market with a focus on five key industries that include government, buildings, energy, mobility and water. The study complied...
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