Weekly Roundup 149 – 30th December 2017 to 5th January 2018
FEATURE REPORT/ ARTICLE OF THE WEEK ‘Space-starved urban villages are fire hazards waiting to happen‘ By Gulam Jeelani, Shiv Sunny, and Tanushree Venkatraman The Kamala Mills fire incident throws sharp...
View ArticleNudging in Cities : Part 2 of 2
Human beings are not always rational thinkers, but the decisions we each make as individuals collectively impact the shape and form of our cities. Taking the car as opposed to walking. Dumping waste as...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup 150 – 6th to 12th January 2018
FEATURE REPORT/ ARTICLE OF THE WEEK ‘When it Comes to Urban Planning, Strategy Isn’t Enough‘ By Steven Pedigo and Alisa Pyszka When it comes to addressing the most urgent priorities of our urban...
View ArticleWhat is Blockchain Anyway? : Part 1 of 3
Meet Cathy. She loves bread. Two slices of bread for breakfast really makes her day. But there is one hitch. She is gluten sensitive. Which means she can only have gluten free bread. And there are...
View ArticleBlockchain and It’s Applications : Part 2 of 3
As we get into the discussion on Blockchain technology’s impact, it is a good time to see this quick video that provides a great explanation of the variety of industries that can benefit from...
View ArticleWhat Does Blockchain Mean for Urban Systems? : Part 3 of 3
Blockchain technology is a culmination of many different digital concepts, as discussed in our introductory post. But what makes it groundbreaking is the idea of radical decentralization that this...
View ArticleIs collaborative city building the new urban utopia? : Part 1 of 3
The global discourse on cities has been fueled over the past decade by the many United Nations annual reports on global urbanization trends; all of them predicting an increasing rise in urban...
View ArticleBuilding Capacity for Participation: Part 2 of 3
In our previous post about the challenges to public participation in Indian cities, we included an image describing five types of public participation for city building. Over the years, with our...
View ArticleParticipatory Planning Around the World: Part 3 of 3
In order to have a coherent ecosystem, there needs to be porosity in the interactions between different communities. You know city planning is moving in the right direction when the immediate...
View Article“Your Fly Is Down!!!”– That & Other Important Things You Should Know While...
Teaching is a weird thing to do. Especially at the collegiate level, where one must nonchalantly address a mass of humanity that you cannot identify and that barely recognises you a member of it’s own...
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