URBAN PLANNING

ORR, built to ease traffic congestion in Bengaluru, is ironically responsible for creating the biggest traffic jams in the city.

Currently in India, data sets on output, firms and employment are either not collected or not made available at the required levels.

Making disaster resilient infrastructure and planning a part of the city’s development plans can mitigate the impact of disasters in urban areas.

Decentralised disaster management is key to effectively mitigating risks and building community resilience against it.

Multiple factors have led to areas like Rainbow Drive flooded. Holistic solutions are possible, but what will it take to make it happen?

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

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.

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

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

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

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