Agriculture

Integrating urban agriculture in the urban landscape

The current global urban population is expected to double by 2050, with 90 percent of urban growth taking place in developing countries. Many cities are ill equipped to handle such large-scale expansion. Various cities are starting to recognise urban
agriculture as an integral part of urban planning, upgrading and design. They are including urban agriculture in land use planning, social housing programmes and slum upgrading. This article describes some examples of their strategies.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2011
Marielle Dubbeling
Urban Agriculture Magazine
25
43-46
Tags:
Urban Agriculture, Urban Development, Developing Countries, Urban Planning, Food Security, Urban Housing
Habitat And Urbanisation

107 cities in Asia: a city-wide slum upgrading movement by the poor takes off in Asia

The Asian Coalition for Community Action Program (ACCA) is a three-year program of the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR), and the program’s target is to support a process of city-wide upgrading in 150 Asian cities.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2011
Asian Coalition for Housing Rights
Tags:
Urbanisation, Slum Upgrading, Asia, South Asia, India, Urban Development, Urban Housing, NGO, Urban Finance, Urban Environment, Slums
Habitat And Urbanisation

Homes for urban poor a reality soon

Five years after it was first proposed as part of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), chief minister Arjun Munda on Thursday kicked-off the process of constructing dwellin

Publication Date: 
26/08/2011
Telegraph (Ranchi)
Tags:
Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), Urban Housing, Lowcost Housing, Poverty, Ranchi (D), Municipal Corporation
Habitat And Urbanisation

State govt tables Rs 10,879-cr suppl budget in Assembly

With Assembly elections round the corner, the Mayawati Government tabled the supplementary budget of Rs 10,879 crore for the fiscal 2011-12 in the State Assembly on Tuesday earmarking over 26 per c

Publication Date: 
10/08/2011
Pioneer (Lucknow)
Tags:
Budget, Lucknow (D), Urban Housing, Rural Housing, Development, Habitat And Urbanisation
Habitat And Urbanisation

Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on Adarsh Co-operative Housing Society, Mumbai

This audit report of CAG on the Adarsh Housing Society scam in Mumbai tabled in the Parliament blamed the Environment Ministry for allowing the building to come up flouting coastal zone regulations.

Publication Date: 
09/08/2011
Comptroller and Auditor General of India
Tags:
Coastal Regulations, Habitat And Urbanisation, Mumbai, Land Use, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Corruption, Urban Housing, Land Encroachments, Land Reclamation, Urban Development, Maharashtra, Roads, Urban Planning
Land

Policy for land allotment to non-government Institutions endorsed

Bhopal: The cabinet at its meeting chaired by the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today endorsed a well-defined policy for allotment of land to non-government institutions for different purpos

Publication Date: 
03/08/2011
Central Chronicle (Bhopal)
Tags:
Bhopal (D), NGO, Urban Housing, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
Habitat And Urbanisation

The board and the bank: Changing policies towards slums in Chennai

Arguing that the initial years of the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board were dominated by the priorities of the then ruling party, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, whose government created it in 1971, this paper points out that shelter policies in the state had a formal orientation away from eviction and resettlement and towards in situ tenement construction, alongside an informal tendency to protect and reward those groups of the urban poor that the party was trying to court for votes.

Publication Date: 
30/07/2011
Nithya Raman
Economic and Political Weekly
46
31
74-80
Tags:
Slums, Chennai (T), Urban Housing, Urban Planning, Poverty, World Bank, Tamil Nadu, Politics, Urban Land Use
Habitat And Urbanisation

Public-private partnership in housing and urban development

This report examines how the public-private partnership (PPP) model can be applied to help promote sustainable housing and urban development for countries around the world. The report has two main parts.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2011
UN-Habitat
Tags:
Urban Development, Urban Housing, Global, India, Public Sector, Private Sector, Sustainable Development, Urban Transport, Urban Water Supply, Urban Sanitation
Habitat And Urbanisation

Model Property Rights to Slum Dwellers Act, 2011

An Act to provide for facilitation of inclusive growth and slum-free cities, including basic amenities and affordable housing to the slum-dwellers; for this purpose to lay down general principles

Publication Date: 
24/05/2011
Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
Tags:
Slums, India, Housing, Urban Housing, Slum Demolition, Land Acquisition, Compensation, Habitat And Urbanisation
Habitat And Urbanisation

Delhi's Plan outlay goes up by 33 per cent

Planning Commission happy with overall work done by the Sheila Government
A Plan outlay of Rs.15,133 crore was on Wednesday approved for Delhi by the Planning Commission at a meeting chaired by Deputy Chairman of the Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia and attended among others by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.

The Planning Commission has approved a Rs.14,200 crore State Plan outlay and Rs.933 c

Publication Date: 
05/05/2011
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Delhi, Habitat And Urbanisation, Development, Planning Commission, Urban Development, Poverty, Urban Housing, Transport

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