This blog was written for the Data Governance Network.
The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) missed a beat in the public consultation round of the recently released Delhi Master Plan 2041. Despite the fact that planning exercises in cities collect and generate valuable geospatial data, the ...
As India aims to become a $5 trillion economy, it must be cognizant of where that growth will come from. Cities contribute extensively to the country’s growth; it is estimated that 59%-70% of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) comes from them. However, to continue playing this catalysing...
In this Hub Culture video, CEO and Senior Fellow Reuben Abraham speaks to Hub Culture's Executive Editor Edie Lush on urban trends across the world: how cities are growing, and what it means to become an 'urban species'. The conversation took place at the World Economic Forum's annual meet...
This article in The Economist quotes Bimal Patel, president of CEPT University in Ahmedabad. Excerpts:
"It is hardly surprising that most Indian cities are so messy, says Bimal Patel, an architect and planner who is president of CEPT University in Ahmedabad. When Europea...
We have developed a new web-application that allows you to explore the spatial form of India's development over four decades! In its first installment, click here to view the growth of India's largest eight metros since 1975 to present.
Users can view high-resolution satellite data on ...
Bimal Patel, Director, HCP Design, Planning and Management discusses India's tryst with urban planning, with Bloomberg Quint, in this article.
"The history of street grids apparently dates back to Hippodamus in the fifth century B.C. The Grecian’s legacy is most visible in New York city, ...
This post in Livemint, while lauding Gurgaon for achiving "economist Edward Glaeser’s contention that cities are the ideal form of modern civilization", laments "the chaos created last week by the monsoon ... [as] a warning of what happens when the state abandons its role of shaping and ...
As we mark the 350th year of the Great Fire of London, BBC Magazine looks back at the ambitious plans that were submitted for the reconstruction of London, Portugal and Chicago after they were destroyed in large scale disasters. Plans for London ranged from Richard Newcourt's Religiou...
In this interesting article by Next City, Oscar Perry Abello takes the case study of a single city block in New York City and maps development in the block. He writes that the prescriptive approach to urban planning may not be the best way to plan for economic development.&n...
