By Amit Kapoor and Inputs by Jessica Duggal We often spot one corner or part of the city that...
Blue Lifelines of Cities – Rivers and Urban Growth in India The paradox of environmental preservation and urban development...
Budgets Urban Plan As India picks up the pace of urbanisation, with over 35% of its population living in...
Smart Infrastructure: Tackling Climate and Disaster Risks in Cities By Amit Kapoor and Bibek Debroy A sombre reminder of...
By Bibek Debroy, Amit Kapoor & Aditya Sinha In the midst of June, Delhi is sweltering under an unprecedented...
By Amit Kapoor & Bibek Debroy May 2024 has been particularly severe for India, as the country endured one...
By Amit Kapoor & Bibek Debroy Many times, we wonder, ‘Are our cities truly prepared?’ This question weighs heavily...
The Silicon Valley narrative holds a contemporary allure that inspires and drives millions of entrepreneurs — a saga of...
This compendium by the Smart Cities Mission and the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) is an attempt...
By Bibek Debroy, Amit Kapoor & Aditya Sinha In the heart of Bengaluru, once celebrated as the City of...
Bridging Progress and Preservation: The Imperative of Sustainable Waste Management The archaic dichotomy between economic development and environmental protection...
By Devansh Sharma and Amit Kapoor Urban areas have been epicenters of economic activity since the dawn of humanity....
In the heart of Jharkhand, nestled amidst the lush greenery and enriched with the bounty of nature, lies Jamshedpur,...
Urbane Ventures: Looking into Commercial Properties Amidst Urbanisation In the early years, when one looks at the beginnings of...
by Amit Kapoor and Bibek Debroy The way cities exist today makes it nearly impossible to envision any other...
by Amit Kapoor & Bibek Debroy The recent weeks have resurrected sombre memories of the pandemic era when streets...
By Amit Kapoor and Dr. Bibek Debroy In the intricate web of urban dynamics, one undeniable truth prevails: the...
By Dr. Bibek Debroy, Amit Kapoor and Aditya Sinha Urban density, the concentration of people within a specific urban...
Roofs of plastic;Walls of tin;If cities were in black and white, how would we colour the slums? Locating slums...
Ties are viewed primarily through the lens of economic progress, but they are the living embodiment of our cultural...
By Amit Kapoor and Bibek Debroy Urbanisation is not only a desired goal but an inevitable outcome. However, this...
Bibek Debroy, Amit Kapoor & Aditya Sinha The discipline of routine policy outcome assessment is not a matter of...
As the world gets more and more urbanised, a significant challenge is presented in the form of municipal waste....
The Cultural Markers of Urbanisation Experts claim that culture is as old as humanity but constantly evolving. What is...
Bibek Debroy, Amit Kapoor and Aditya Sinha In Charles Dickens’ classic novel “Bleak House,” published in 1853, he masterfully...
Cities around the world are more linked and densely populated than ever. While there are growing social and economic...
Bibek Debroy, Amit Kapoor & Aditya Sinha Drawing inspiration from Charles Dickens’ “Hard Times,” which vividly portrays the struggles faced by...
Notes on Urban Prosperity Any study on urbanisation and prosperity takes a strategic direction to approach its increasing role...
Urbanisation and Urban Dynamics Cities have come to acquire a very central position in our understanding of the nature...
Bibek Debroy, Amit Kapoor & Aditya Sinha In his seminal book “Street Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in...
The Smart City Mission, as envisaged by the Hon’ble Prime Minister, is embedded in the idea of promoting cities...
Looking at urbanisation as merely a process of the population shift from rural to urban areas makes us lose...
Amit Kapoor & Bibek Debroy As the world is becoming more urban than ever, it is crucial to place...
There are multiple lenses through which one can try to understand urbanisation in order to leverage its advantages for...
India@100: What’s ahead for urbanisation? With India surpassing the United Kingdom to become the fifth-largest economy, the world is...
The waves of urbanisation have been uneven around the world and are intrinsically tied to the level of development...
Bibek Debroy, Amit Kapoor & Aditya Sinha Literature on service delivery suggests that a state is incapable of delivering...
Amit Kapoor and Bibek Debroy The process of urbanisation stipulates a need to expand as the number of people...
Bibek Debroy, Aditya Sinha & Amit Kapoor Throughout the 20th century, modern states have pursued what political scientist, James Scott,...
The variations in determining what can be classified as cities are as dynamic as cities themselves It is fairly...
Cities have always captured the poetic imagination in how they shape culture and give impetus to the realisation of...
The World Bank estimates that about 4.2 billion people, or 55% of the world’s population, live in the cities....
Amit Kapoor and Bibek Debroy With the World Bank projecting that every seven of 10 people will be living...
