Cities
Our Cities can fight Covid-19 Proactively |
Mriganka Saxena and Puneet Khanna
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| Various Containment Plans to address the global health emergency in Indian cities need to be much more nuanced taking in account the character of the settlements and the degree of the spread of the pandemic in the areas. .
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In early April, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare [MoHFW] released the Containment Plan for Large Outbreaks, Novel Coronoavirus Disease [Covid-19]. This Plan proposed geographic quarantine, calling for ‘near absolute interruption of movement of people to and from a defined geographic area where there is a single large outbreak or multiple foci of local transmission’. However, the proposed geographic quarantine applied to large areas spread over multiple blocks of one or more districts that are contiguous. This approach is not applicable to cities. Exceptionally large areas of an agglomeration should not be quarantined. Blanket restrictions and surveillance measures should not be applied across localities that are not affected to enable efficient allocation of resources available with Municipalities and allow these unaffected parts of the city to resume economic activity.
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environment, ecology and biodiversity |
RESCUING THE URBAN POLLINATORS
MADHURA KHADE
WETLANDS AT WORK
UNDERSTANDING WETLANDS
With inputs from Dr. C. R. Babu
CONSTRUCTED WETLAND AT RAJOKRI, NEW DELHI
[Delhi Jal Board]
Ankit Srivastava
CONSTRUCTED WETLAND AT NEELA HAUZ, NEW DELHI
Landscape and Environment Planning Department,
Delhi Development Authority
CONSTRUCTED WETLAND AT HAUZ KHAS LAKE, NEW DELHI
Tarun Nanda, Evolve Engineering
RESTORATION AND REJUVENATION OF RIVER YAMUNA FLOODPLAINS, NEW DELHI
Landscape and Environment Planning Department,
Delhi Development Authority
REIMAGINING THE CITY
YAMUNA RIVER PROJECT:NEW DELHI URBAN ECOLOGY
[Authors Inaki Alday and Pankaj Vir Gupta]
Review by Geeta Wahi Dua
REJUVENATION AND RESTORATION OF URBAN PONDS, GURUGRAM
Future Institute
SPURRING ECONOMIC REVIVAL THROUGH ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION,
NANHU, CHINA
Uma Sekar
heritage, urban design, landscape architecture |
FROM MY HOUSE TO YOUR HOUSE
In conversation with Miki Desai
CITY MAPS: MAPPING NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT
Review by Rabindra J. Vasavada
A SENSE OF SPACE
Anuraag Chowfla
IN CONVERSATION WITH RANJIT SABIKHI
DEMOCRACY, PARTICIPATION AND CONSULTATION
In conversation with Bimal Patel
city and culture |
OUR CITIES CAN FIGHT COVID-19 PROACTIVELY
Mriganka Saxena and Puneet Khanna
LOCALIZING FUTURES
Geeta Wahi Dua
BOURGEOIS ENVIRONMENTALISM AND THE VULNERABILITY OF THE POOR
UNCIVIL CITY: ECOLOGY, EQUITY AND THE COMMONS IN DELHI [Author: Amita Baviskar]
Review by Nikhil Dhar
STREETSCAPES IN PUNE
CREATING A HEALTHY AND WALKABLE NEIGHBORHOOD: AUNDH NEIGHBORHOOD UPGRADATION | PUNE
Prasanna Desai Architects
ABOUT RETAIL, TREES AND YOUNG VIBES:
JANGLI MAHARAJ ROAD | PUNE
Oasis Designs Inc.
EMERGENCE OF THE EPHEMERAL
Bijoy Ramachandran
seeing the unseen |
ART FOR ALL
St+Art India Foundation
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