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HomeURBAN PLANNING

URBAN PLANNING

Protest at Sankey Tank with bulldozer
Infrastructure

Concretising open parks — this is not the development people want or need

April 20, 2022 Krishna Panyam

Fed up with mere platitudes and no action, Malleswaram residents launch yet another protest against constant, uncoordinated digging of their streets.

Malleshwaram residents protest walk
Infrastructure

Saaku — Enough Is enough–residents stage protest walk to reclaim Malleswaram

April 19, 2022 Krishna Panyam

There is practically no road in Malleswaram that is not dug up. BBMP, BWSSB, BESCOM and private telecom companies feel free to dig up any road at any time.

Everyday-Stories
Society

Be a Citizen Scientist: Contribute to ‘Decoding Everyday’

February 25, 2022 Kiran Keswani

City planning and design can be improved through a collaborative approach by crowdsourcing citizens perspectives and engaging them.

An ashwath katte or peepul tree shrine
Infrastructure

What Bengaluru’s peepul tree shrines can teach us about urban planning

November 17, 2021 Kiran Keswani

Bengalureans still nurture traditional community spaces like peepul tree shrines. Such spaces should be retained in city planning and design.

a park in bengaluru
Infrastructure

A vocabulary for public infrastructure in Bengaluru

November 8, 2021 Shreya Pillai

Using international vocabulary for city infrastructure will help citizens understand the situation instead of creating a new, confusing language of design

Commuters waiting at a bus stop on the bus priority lane (BPL) along Outer Ring Road, Bengaluru
Society

How Bengaluru got its first ‘bus priority lane’

August 4, 2021 Navya P K

The bus lane on Outer Ring Road is a result of the citizen activism that started in 2017 with the ‘steel flyover beda’ protests. And citizens’ work continues.

Citizen activism
Governance

Citizen engagement helped ease the COVID crisis. Can it also reform our Bengaluru?

June 22, 2021 Shreya Pillai

Citizen engagement is important even in the best of times. Can we sustain the energy that was seen during the pandemic?

Environment

Doubling Baiyappanahalli-Hosur railway line: Boon or Bane?

April 8, 2021 Shreya Pillai

Do the villages and municipalities along the rail route want the project cutting through their environment? The consultation process should be more inclusive.

Civic

Urban Utilities Map Beku: What lies beneath Bengaluru’s roads

April 6, 2021 Raghu Rajagopal

Mapping all the lifeline utilities in Bengaluru is the only way to flawless planning and execution of projects involving road excavation.

Commute

Guess why women avoid cycling in our city

December 21, 2020 Pragathi Ravi

When women cyclists speak of safety, they are not only talking about accident-risk, but about harassment. Urban design should factor this in.

Infrastructure

How public spaces can be redesigned to make ‘unlocking’ safe in Bengaluru

June 30, 2020 Ruchi Agarwal

As COVID cases rise in Bengaluru, the dilemma is between ensuring citizens’ safety and opening up the economy. Redesigning our public spaces may be the best way to ensure both these.

Infrastructure

“Policy changes can help make Bengaluru an equal city for women”

June 11, 2020 Sneha Visakha

Bengaluru lacks the infrastructure required for women to move around freely and participate in the public sphere. To change this, the city needs to be planned and designed differently.

Environment

Isn’t looking beyond Cubbon Park a Smarter Plan?

February 26, 2020 Bindu Gopal Rao

Authorities have come up with a Rs 40 crore plan to redevelop Cubbon Park under the smart city project. The question is whether it is prudent to splurge on an already-thriving ecosystem rather than redirect scare resources towards creating more such spaces.

Governance

MP Tejasvi Surya helps fix Bannerghatta Road, but is it his job?

November 27, 2019 Manasi Paresh Kumar

Bengaluru already has a Metropolitan Planning Committee to plan and coordinate infrastructure works. Then why are our MPs and MLAs fixing roads?

Civic

Govt response after #MahadevapuraDemands protest: Nothing new, residents say

October 24, 2019 Kedar Koushik

The #MahadevapuraDemands protest against elected representatives last Friday seems to have had some positive impact. But residents of the constituency are not yet ready to celebrate.

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