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No country for playful children: Why Indian cities need to get serious about play time
Radhika Oberoi • 7 years agoUntil spaces are designated for children — including those who live on the streets or in urban slums — to play, menacing places like railway tracks or riverbeds will continue to serve as playgrounds.
How to build a queer city: Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru could take a cue from mid-19th century Berlin
Radhika Oberoi • 7 years agoIn India, where Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code criminalises gay sex, a thwarted community has managed to survive, protest with a song and dance, throw parties, and crawl under the sheets whenever it pleases
Open spaces in Indian cities must be viewed as essential community resources, not a luxury
Radhika Oberoi • 7 years agoOpen or public spaces — a city’s streets, parks, waterfronts, squares, maidans, chowks — are necessary breathers which provide vibrant locations for public encounter, and facilitate a civic culture
Could emulating China's 'sponge cities' help prevent the worst of flooding in urban India?
Radhika Oberoi • 8 years agoCities in India, with their impermeable surfaces, blocked drains, and rampant construction on lake beds and other water bodies, have metamorphosed into water-resistant barriers, prone to flooding.
Elphinstone Bridge stampede is a reminder of role good urban design can play in averting tragedies
Radhika Oberoi • 8 years agoFootbridges in India, often hastily-constructed passages of narrow proportions and tacky design, evoke nether awe or oration | #ByDesign | #FWeekend
On Rabindra Jayanti, a plea for recovering our civilisational inheritance
Aloke Thakore • 8 years agoRabindranath Tagore has his uses, other than making us stand as one of his songs is sung.
MIT releases software to help cities get better not just bigger
Charman • 14 years agoMost of the world now lives in cities, but that doesn't mean that cities are great places to live. MIT has released a new open-source urban planning toolbox that it hopes will mean cities are just larger but also more liveable.
MIT releases software to help cities get better not just bigger
Charman • 14 years agoMost of the world now lives in cities, but that doesn't mean that cities are great places to live. MIT has released a new open-source urban planning toolbox that it hopes will mean cities are just larger but also more liveable.