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Wrack and Ruin: Eviction Fears of Chilla Khadar Residents
February 21, 2025
Five hundred metres away from this residential area of Mayur Vihar, Pocket 4, lies Chilla Khadar, a settlement on the Yamuna floodplains. Around 250 to 300 households across the Yamuna floodplains face their daily struggles against flood, evictions and systemic neglect. Still, the story of […]
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Murky Conventions: How the “Climate Finance COP” Failed Global South
January 15, 2025
The world is again confronted with the stark reality of global climate inequity as the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) culminated in Baku, Azerbaijan last year. The build-up to COP29 was fraught with controversy. […]
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Theme: Queer-Trans Experiences of the city, call for contributions for the Urban Kaleidoscope journal – 5th Edition.
January 7, 2025
Urban Kaleidoscope – 5th Edition Queer-Trans Experiences of The City The urban landscape is a kaleidoscope of interconnected elements that come together to form vibrant tapestries of city life. Drawing inspiration from its captivating imagery, “Urban Kaleidoscope” by People’s Resource Centre is a quarterly journal […]
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Urban Agriculture School Pedagogy in Delhi
January 4, 2025A report by UN-HABITAT predicts that the number of city dwellers will increase by an average of 29 million annually. Delhi is also expanding rapidly with an annual growth rate of over 2 per cent and currently stands at 35 million. Against this backdrop, the […] Read More
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Status of Urban Local Governance in India: With a Case Study of Delhi
December 16, 2024Introduction More than 55% of the world’s population currently resides in cities, with projections suggesting this figure could rise to 66% by 2050. A report from UN-HABITAT indicates that the number of individuals living in urban areas is anticipated to increase by an average of […] Read More
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Rivers in India are Facing a New Threat to their Existence
December 10, 2024Over 107 riverfront projects are being developed across Indian cities. These projects usually are based on the concept of “world-class cities” and are being built at a huge cost to the river’s ecology and the riverine communities. Most importantly, the projects are also in huge […] Read More
Resources for Social Transformation
PRC intends to build conditions and infrastructures so that a fairer, better system emerges out of the existing one. Apart from conducting action-oriented research and community-level interventions, PRC publishes resource material on politics of resource appropriation. PRC is also working towards republishing a series of forgotten/less-known texts of relevance to contemporary movements.
Programmes
Urban Futures
We synthesize the ideas and scholarly research on alternative models of development, systematize the state of the art, update theories with recent findings... read more
Infrastructure
While a lot has been researched about land issues and the land relations has been explored and continues to get explored by academicians, journalists.. Read more
Climate Justice
While the climate change and the consequent threats on existence of life on earth are now getting wider attention, the issue of justice in the climate action remains mostly side-lined. Read more