Library:Tata Institute of Social Sciences,Guwahati

  Creating a fully inclusive and accessible India will require behavioural changes, capacity building, investments in accessible infrastruct...

  Durga Shanker Mishra, O P Agarwal write: A policy is needed to guide the planning and management of cities towards enabling India’s growth...

  To make cities women-friendly, urban planners must focus on two core issues —greater safety from violence and adequate childcare support. ...

  Many cities still subscribe to an unhelpful policy which enjoins that the people living in “unauthorised” colonies are not eligible to get...

Urban employment guarantee scheme signifies India’s failure to address inequality Half-baked countercyclical policies such as the promis...

Widening urban, rural divide must be addressed Confusion and conflict among the younger generation from rural areas can lead to social t...

Urban Only In Name One-fourth of the urban population lives in these small towns (20,000 to 1,00,000 population). These 7 crore people n...

A gated revolution Current forms of urban politics construct a new aam aadmi: The relatively privileged white-collar professional who fe...

Our cities cannot be smart, until they are accessible for everybody Contractors hired to remove the barriers in the urban built environm...

Not so great walls Gated communities don’t make cities safer — only offer a bubble We are surrounded by them in all our suburbs. They...

Ourview The promise and pitfalls of urbanization in India The urbanization that has taken place is skewed and cannot be a healthy long-...

The overrated urban spinoff Agriculture’s contribution to poverty reduction is five times more than that of metropolitan centres Spea...