Every year during monsoons, many towns in India experience heavy flooding. These floods some natural, others human induced result in a heavy loss of lives and property. ASESH K MAITRA, environmental planner and director, School of Planning and Archite
The setting up of a high-powered Himalayan Development Authority has run into rough weather. A committee headed by Planning Commission member S Z Qasim, set up in March 1992 to address the problems
Mud housing enthusiasts received a blow recently when the Delhi High Court dismissed a writ petition by the Mud Village Society (MVS), staking claim to a 2.1 ha plot in East Delhi on which it
more than 100 municipalities in the us state of Pennsylvania are declaring the environmental regulations of the state and federal governments null and void. They have, in fact, passed ordinances
Cities have long been held as agents of economic growth. In recent times, urban buoyancy has been cited as among the main reasons of India's consumer revolution. There is a damper though. On June 27
The official blueprint Goa currently follows is the Regional Plan 2001. It was notified in 1986, and today there is unanimity that this plan has become redundant. For two compelling reasons
