[This article was originally published in Down To Earth] The potential of urban agriculture in alleviating food insecurity in cities requires holistic policy support from governments. Some 60 per cent of Delhi’s demand for meat is fulfilled by city-grown produce, as is 25 percent...
Tag: urban planning
Public Consultation Meeting for the Urban Agriculture Policy Draft
हिंदी संस्करण के लिए, कृपया यहां क्लिक करें Public Consultation Meeting for the Urban Agriculture Policy Draft (Organized by Working Group on Urban Agriculture Policy in Delhi and People’s Resource Centre) [A copy of the Draft can be accessed here] Urban and peri-urban agriculture has...
Latent City: Feeding Without Footprint
Urban agriculture is emerging as a viable solution to curb food mileage, reducing the footprint generated by the distribution of food. This film attempts to document the existing urban agriculture practices in Delhi. The Draft Masterplan of Delhi 2041 proposes things like ‘Green Development’ and...
शहर अपने मल का क्या करे?: भारत, वियतनाम, चीन, इंडोनेशिया और जर्मनी के शहरों में मल उपचार के कुछ अनुभव
[आरोन वॉनसिन्त्यां द्वारा लिखा गया लेख ‘शहरी मछली तालाब’ मूल रूप से ‘लो-टेक मैगज़ीन’ में मार्च 2021 में प्रकाशित हुआ था। इसका हिन्दी में अनुवाद करने और उसे प्रकाशित करने की अनुमति देने के लिए आरोन और ‘लो-टेक मैगज़ीन’ के सम्पादक क्रिस डेकर का धन्यवाद।...
Caught in the Tangles of Court Orders and ‘Development’, the Yamuna Remains As Polluted As Ever
[This article was originally published in The Bastion] Crores have been spent by various state governments on different policies to ‘develop’ the Yamuna and bring it back to life. In the process, such schemes disenfranchise those communities that have lived by the river for generations....
Beejpatra: Fourth Leaflet | Oct’21
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,...
Financing to Move on: Metro Rail in Smart City Mission and beyond
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...
Towards Urban Agriculture Policy for the NCT of Delhi
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...
Report on ‘Sinking Cities’
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...
Why Kolkata must reconsider its bicycle ban
– Debapriya Chanda [This article was originally published in Citizen Matters] In recent times, one of the lasting representations of Kolkata in popular culture lies in an iconic scene from the film Piku, where Bhashkor Banerjee, played by Amitabh Bachchan, is seen riding a bicycle...