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Let’s salvage our cities
Cities are meant to be centres of innovation and job creation. But in India we are staring at an urban ...
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Urban governance is a failure
In 1992, the Constitution of India underwent two seminal amendments — the 73rd Amendment for rural areas and the 74th ...
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A lone mayor can’t fix the city
We live in an era of instant mixes, single-click execution and intricate technologies that don’t need operating manuals. In the ...
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Citizens got candidates to listen
In the run-up to the Karnataka elections, one was reminded of the song from The Sound of Music — “how ...
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A manifesto for Bengaluru
Karnataka is witnessing the election tamasha — a great spectacle with plenty of sound and fury. There are manifestos, but ...
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Flyover will kill Bengaluru
Since mid-September, Bengaluru’s civic news has had saturation coverage about a 6.7-km, Rs 1,791 crore proposed steel flyover from the ...
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Break free from cars
One Sunday in February, a miserly 250 metres on MG Road in Bengaluru was closed to traffic and thrown open ...
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Every city can be smart
The selection of the first lot of 20 smart cities by the central government saw both jubilation among those selected ...
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New govt, new hope
The recently concluded Assembly election was notable for three developments. One, the State recorded a high turnout of over 70 ...
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Bangalore’s mobility woes
Last month the Annual Survey of Indian Cities (ASICS) released by Janaagraha comparing 11 Indian cities with London and New ...
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Splitting up in Bengaluru
Against the backdrop of the perceived failure of the objectives of trifurcating the Delhi Municipal Corporation, it is worthwhile checking ...
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