The Fifth Edition of Beejpatra explores the symbiotic association between ‘waste’ and urban agriculture. Under capitalist urbanisation, waste is overproduction and a ‘non-value’ that can neither be consumed nor be invested back into the process of production. The production process itself is a linear rather...
Beejpatra began as an attempt to provide 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 ecological. It became a place to save and share the knowledge,...
List of discussion points Metro ‘vs.’ Smart Cities Metro: Why and Why Not Is there any intent to learn? “Public” Transport Ridership and “Data Artifice” Revenue: Shades of Knowledge Politics Funding: The Dark Core Riding on Debt: The Problem Land Value Capture: What it Captures...
The problems lurking in the prevalent system have initiated an urgent need to reimagine the structure of governance and the process of planning undertaken in the urban centres. Various people’s movements and initiatives also point towards the many disabilities rampant in the current governance system...
Towards Urban Agriculture Policy for the NCT of Delhi: Why to have one and what it should do Urban Agriculture in Delhi Need for Urban Agriculture Policy Existing Institutional Context Challenges a UA Policy can address Approaches to UA Policy for Delhi Aspects of UA...
The uncontrolled and destructive urbanisation has badly impacted the health of all rivers. Large scale damming, the concretisation of river channels, real estate development on the flood plains and dumping of wastewater have altered the very nature of the rivers and has endangered their mere...
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...
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,...