Vaidehi Tandel and Reuben Abraham explain that it is not density, but socioeconomic factors, state capacity, and lack of experience which explain case load...

Patrick Lamson-Hall and Harshita Agarwal point out how cities need to be made liveable for India’s migrant and informal workers. Improvements across sanitation and sewage systems, quality of housing and jobs support are needed.

Existing housing policies are responsible for keeping housing out of reach for many urban Indian residents. In this article for moneycontrol.com, Vaidehi Tandel, Isalyne Gennaro and Mehul Das make a case for urgent reforms in the Indian housing se...

What plagues India’s housing market? CEO and Senior Fellow, Reuben Abraham and Director and Research Fellow, Pritika Hingorani look at the conceptual fallacies and implications of capping Floor Space Index (FSI), the ratio of floor space that can b...

From economic efficiency to environmental damage, citizens pay a heavy price. There are ways to address this. 

What explains the rapid urbanisation in Kerala? Vaidehi Tandel, Kadambari Shah and Harshita Agrawal at the IDFC Institute look into the reasons and the implications for governance.    ...

Amidst the teeming population in cities, migrants are housed in slum dwellings or one-room occupancies, employed in unskilled jobs in the informal sector, and dependent on inadequate public infrastructure. Yet living in the city serves as a mark of p...

The link between the U.S.Civil War and City of Bombay.

The article talks about the need for liberalising the way in which Indian cities are planned

In this Business Standard article, IDFC Chairman Rajiv Lall explains: “Our administrative machinery was designed to serve only two tiers of government: the Centre and state."...