• About
  • Collaborate
  • Data
  • Search
  • Donate
Citizen Matters, Bengaluru
  • Cities
    • Home
    • Bengaluru
    • Chennai
    • Mumbai
    • Delhi / NCR
    • Pune
    • Hyderabad
    • Ahmedabad
  • Current
  • Civic
  • Commute
  • Governance
  • Economy
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Health
  • Infrastructure
  • Waste
  • Water
  • Society
HomeURBAN PLANNING

URBAN PLANNING

Construction site at Kerekodi Underpass
Infrastructure

The ups and downs of Outer Ring Road: The purpose of infrastructure

December 27, 2022 Namrata Narendra

Flyovers and underpasses cannot be seen as isolated projects and must be viewed as a part of the overall road network in Bengaluru.

An elevated view of Outer Ring Road (ORR)
Infrastructure

The ups and downs of Outer Ring Road: Contradictions in infrastructural planning

December 23, 2022 Namrata Narendra

The KEB junction flyover and the Dr Muthuraj junction underpass will not align with the elevated metro line at Kerekodi junction.

A view Outer Ring Road at night
Infrastructure

The ups and downs of Outer Ring Road: A view through the years

December 20, 2022 Namrata Narendra

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

A view of Bengaluru
Economy

Mapping Bengaluru’s economic geography: Why urban planners need more economic and labour market information

October 18, 2022 Herry Gulabani, Shriya Anand, Viola Lewis and Sooraj Raveendran

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

Elevated metro corridor and flyover in Nayandahalli in Bangalore
Infrastructure

Cities must focus on disaster resilient infrastructure in the era of climate change

September 19, 2022 Pragathi Ravi

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

High level meeting at BBMP assess flood damages
Governance

Disaster management in Bengaluru: Temporary fixes touted as solutions as city floods again

September 15, 2022 Pragathi Ravi

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

A group of people wading through knee deep water inside Rainbow Drive layout
Environment

Rainbow Drive — layout or lake? The man-made tragedy of Bengaluru’s flood-prone neighbourhoods

September 5, 2022 Meera K and Vaidya R

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

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.

Posts navigation

1 2 … 12 »

Citizen Matters NewsletterSubscribe

Follow us on

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • YouTube

Information

  • Team
  • Awards and Recognition
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Grievance Redressal

Collaborate

  • Login
  • Openings
  • Contact Us
  • Reprint Permissions
  • Comment Policy & Disclaimer

Supported By


oorvani-foundation-website

© Oorvani Foundation 2013-2023