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How Digitalization is Driving Growth Hubs in India
How tech-driven innovation and data-enabled decision-making are not only streamlining operations across sectors, but also unlocking new avenues for economic competitiveness and sustainable urban development.
Cities As Growth Hubs: From Import Substitution to Import Replacement
Understanding India's shift from import substitution policies to Jane Jacobs' import-replacement model, highlighting cities like Venice, Tokyo and Hyderabad as key examples of hubs driving local production, innovation, and regional economic growth.
Tackling Increasing Air Pollution in Hyderabad
How Hyderabad can use a comprehensive approach using IoT and AI-driven real-time monitoring, supported by local government teams, to offer an effective response to track and mitigate pollution levels citywide.
Handling Climate Driven Health Risks in Indian Cities
How Indian cities can tackle the rising health risks driven by climate change, from innovative policy measures to community-based resilience strategies.
The Emerging Face of Urban India
A historical look at India's trade development, the contemporary urban growth, and how future planning should anticipate changes in land use, building regulations, and service requirements.
A Syncretic Pathway to Urban Rejuvenation
A look at the push towards modernizing Indian cities and what the country can learn from other countries that have traversed the 'high modern' route.
The Changing Nature of a Civil Servant's Job
How to adapt to the changing role of civil servants, particularly the IAS, as it expands beyond revenue collection, coordination, maintenance of order, and quasi-judicial work - to being called upon to deal more and more with complex changes.
A Systems Approach to Urban Development
How to adapt to the changing role of civil servants, particularly the IAS, as it expands beyond revenue collection, coordination, maintenance of order, and quasi-judicial work - to being called upon to deal more and more with complex changes.
SHGs: Bridging Social Capital for Livelihood Improvement
Strategic approaches to bridge social capital to enable India’s self-help groups (SHGs) to improve lives for income enhancement opportunities.
Getting a Grip on Traffic Congestion in Indian Cities
Historical and contemporary views and solutions on managing traffic congestions in India.
Refurbishing Heat Islands in Indian Cities
Drawing on examples worldwide and planning practices, like those established by Scottish urban planner Patrick Geddes, here are some ways to refurbish the existing urban environment in Indian cities to address the issue of "heat islands".
Carrying Out “Democratic Administration” Using AI
How the AI-driven third wave in India would be a radical revision to our standard assumptions not just about how democracy works but about what democracy even is.
A Way to Build New Cities
The "new normal" is constantly changing, marked by continuous escalation and extreme events. Confronted with this reality, our challenge is to address this "new abnormal".
Finding a Way Out: Monsoon Flooding in Cities
The "new normal" is constantly changing, marked by continuous escalation and extreme events. Confronted with this reality, our challenge is to address this "new abnormal".
What's Happening to Indian Cities?
As a city planner, I often get asked about the happenings in our cities. Here's a simplified explanation of my responses.
What Determines Officers’ Postings?
What do the political executives look for when they post civil servants, the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in particular.