India

 Honing old homing skills

DESPITE India being a country with an ancient tradition of building houses which used little energy in construction and maintenance, the majority of our government housing and construction

Publication Date: 
29/04/1995
Down to Earth
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Urban Housing, Building Technology, India
Habitat And Urbanisation

A research programme for urban housing

This paper outlines a research proposal for a series of investigations into aspects of urban housing which it seems important to understand before formulating an enlarged public housing programme. Studies in the areas outlined here are either scanty or non-existent.

Publication Date: 
06/04/1973
Shirish B Patel
Economic and Political Weekly
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Habitat And Urbanisation, Urban Housing, India, Economy, Urban Planning
Habitat And Urbanisation

Can Transit Oriented Development Change Delhi's Face?

Low-carbon, high-density, mixed land use - Delhi gets set to experiment with its new housing model called Transit Oriented Development. Does it have the potential to uplift the quality of life in the capital? Experts give us the thumbs up or down? Find out.

http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/the-property-show/can-transit-oriented-...

Tags:
Urban Housing, Urban Habitat, Urban Planning, Delhi, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
Habitat And Urbanisation
Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
Habitat And Urbanisation, Urban Habitat, Urban Development, Urban Planning, Urban Housing, Poverty, Delhi
Habitat And Urbanisation
Ministry of Urban Development
Habitat And Urbanisation, Urban Habitat, Urbanisation, Urban Development, Urban Planning, Urban Housing, Delhi
India

 Balding the urban landscape through shortsighted fiscal policies

Traditionally most urban areas in the country have grown out of rural settlements. Land use changes and population growth have precipitated urbanization in a lot of rural centres. Urbanization also

Publication Date: 
14/02/2008
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Development, Urban Habitat, Displacement, Urbanisation, Urban Development, Urban Housing, Urban Environment, Finance, Poverty, India, Karnataka
Poverty

 Dharavi's real estate threat

The Maharashtra government wants to redevelop Dharavi, Mumbai s sprawling slum. But its plan has not taken into account the fact that people not only live but also work in this settlement, something they will not be able to do in the new Dharavi.

Publication Date: 
29/11/2007
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Urban Habitat, Displacement, Urban Planning, Urban Land, Urban Housing, Slums, Slum Upgrading, Slum Demolition, Urban Sanitation, Potters, Informal Sector, Poverty, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Waste Recycling
Environment

 Regulating living environment for public safety

it is unusual for the powerful real estate lobbies to be brought to their knees in India. But such a thing happened in Gujarat in 2002. The high court was hearing a petition on saving the lakes of

Publication Date: 
14/07/2007
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Environment, Urban Habitat, Urban Development, Urban Planning, Urban Housing, India, Chandigarh, Gujarat, Ahmedabad (D), Punjab, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)
Industry

 Property industry in trouble in Punjab

Property buyers in Punjab are in a fix, as are financiers and builders with housing construction projects in Panchkula and Mohali, satellite towns of Chandigarh. One of the most

Publication Date: 
14/07/2007
Minti Jain
Down to Earth
Tags:
Urban Water Supply, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Urban Development, Urban Planning, Urban Housing, Urban Sanitation, Industry, High Court, India, Chandigarh, Punjab
Poverty

 Gujarat announces Rs 13 crore scheme for state's poor

gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on March 29, 2007, announced a Rs 13-crore scheme for the state's urban poor. The programme, called Garib Samriddhi Scheme, envisages, among other things,

Publication Date: 
30/05/2007
Minti Jain
Down to Earth
Tags:
Urban Planning, Nagarpalikas, Urban Housing, Slums, Slum Upgrading, Poverty, Anti-Poverty Programmes, NGO, Awards, India, Gujarat

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