A month earlier, we had published our study on urban and periurban agriculture in Mumbai. Continuing with our research and action efforts, we invite you to join us for the upcoming public meeting on agriculture and allied activities in urban and periurban Mumbai. Date and...
– Vaishnavi Rathore [Originally published in The Bastion (Link to the original article)] The Delhi Development Authority’s Master Plan 2041 has been released for public feedback. While the floodplains of the Yamuna river feature generously in the document, their uses are limited to aesthetic and...
Registration Link People’s Resource Centre invites you to an online discussion on the need for localization of governance and planning in Indian cities. This is the second session in continuation of our ongoing series to imagine alternatives and present people’s initiatives around the idea that...
We are happy to present the third leaflet of our ‘urban farming’ periodical- BeejPatra. BeejPatra provides a space for the urban farming community to present, talk about and propagate different ways in which citizens can make cities beautiful, socially just, more self-reliant, and free. The...
Now Released: Please watch it here About The Film More than a hundred riverfront projects have already been planned in different Indian cities situated on rivers. These projects claim to transform riverbanks into recreational spaces for the public and to ‘beautify’ the urban rivers. The...
– Geetanjali Gurlhosur [Originally published in Mongabay India (Link to the original article). Republished by Scroll.in (Link)] As the urban farming discourse in India has been expanding over the past few years, the limelight is often on upwardly-mobile urban citizens who take up farming for...
We are happy to present this report based on the research conducted as part of the Urban Agriculture Fellowship-2021 by Rosamma Thomas. Rosamma conducted this research over a period of roughly two months in Pune. Through extensive community interaction and interviews of practitioners of urban...
We are happy to present this report based on the research conducted as part of the Urban Agriculture Fellowship-2021 by Geetanjali Gurlhosur. Geetanjali conducted this research over a period of roughly two months in Mumbai. By employing both community interaction and review of existing literature,...
[Applications for the Nagar-Nadi Fellowship are now closed. Please keep subscribe to our website for future updates.] About the fellowship People’s Resource Centre (PRC), an independent research organisation based in Delhi, is conducting research on infrastructure development on riverbanks in Indian cities, with a particular...
A Preliminary Report on Patna Riverfront In recent years, a new generation of river-related developmental projects has received a strong push from central and state governments. After dubious claims of success in riverfront development projects on the Sabarmati river, the policymakers are now ready with...