This piece draws from informal interviews with a ‘gajra’ vendor in a residential colony in Mumbai. Jharna* is 46 years old, and has been vending flowers in the same spot since the year 2000.
Posts Tagged ‘urban planning’
Women at Work: An insight into the workspace of a ‘gajra’ vendor in Mumbai
Radhika M. Chakraborty on June 26th, 2015
Lets Plan for Smart Indian Villages
S Chandrasekhar on June 23rd, 2015
Would it be more pertinent to work towards making every habitation smart rather than focusing only on 100 smart cities? Instead of harping on smart cities how about smart villages? Let us start with the 4862 villages with over 10,000 residents. Let us make these smart villages thereby covering 8.6 percent of India’s rural population. […]
Why India needs to invest in planning
Poornima Dore on April 27th, 2015
The recent outcry over the draft Mumbai Development Plan (DP) 2014-34 has left many wondering what really goes on in the run up to the creation of such plans. With the nature of urbanisation and the Indian scale of problems being fairly complex, urban planning and management is an important area requiring better focus. It […]