Who are our cities being built for?
City Limits: The Crisis of Urbanization, explores urban inequality & how we can build fairer, liveable cities.
What is a future city?
Read it & join the discussion: "Buy a copy" (penguin.co.in/book/city-limi…)
#CityLimits #cities #urban – at Hyderabad, India
Today in #Hyderabad
Speaking in #BharatSummit
Session on #futurecities
Here is the crux of my intervention made.
Also present @Sridharbabu Minister Telangana, Vijay Mahajan, Divya ex MP Lok Sabha, Prof Sajjad Historian, Sheikh Saluddin Gig Workers leader.
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Growth cannot remain trapped in a handful of overcrowded megacities. We need serious investment in small and medium towns.
And we must stop privatising our lakes, parks, streets, and public transport—these are public commons, not commercial real estate.
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Im in #Hyderabad speaking in the #futurecity discussion.
#bharatsummit
Thought of sharing this article that I wrote a few weeks ago which is very much contexualised.
Neoliberal globalisation has hit a dead end, shifting from campus debates to a planetary crisis.
Cities have become sites of deep inequality and capital accumulation.
Alternative built from ground up, reclaiming urban spaces for democracy, dignified work.
m.thewire.in/article/economy…
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Reached #Delhi a shortwhile ago.
Travelled from #Shimla.
Greeted not just by polluted air but perpetual polluted minds as well.
Midnight and the crackers are still bursting in the neighbourhood.
Neither regulation nor community control is working.
#crackers #AQI #airpollution
tikender panwar retweeted
Srinagar, in 2019, approved a master plan for 2035. What needs to be built, where and how were laid out clearly in no uncertain terms in this masterplan. Then comes a law without any consultation - Section 22 that can bulldoze it at anyone's whims. A tall building can stand in the middle of an agri-land by a stroke of pen decided by a committee to override the master plan. This is done in a city that sends 70% of untreated sewage into Dal Lake and Jhelum everyday and does not have an elected Mayor since 2023. Hill towns of India are a sinking cesspool for such political cunnings that hold no accountability to people or people see thru them without connecting the dots.
"A master plan is a promise of the city to itself and allowing a committee to waive it provisions rewrites its promise" as @tikender argues passionately here.
Unchecked construction & reckless rule changes r trading Srinagar's ecological future for concrete.
When master plans bypassed and cities run without democratic councils, public goods become private loot.
I write this oped in @the_hindu
thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/b…
@OmarAbdullah
tikender panwar retweeted
Unchecked construction & reckless rule changes r trading Srinagar's ecological future for concrete.
When master plans bypassed and cities run without democratic councils, public goods become private loot.
I write this oped in @the_hindu
thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/b…
@OmarAbdullah
Unchecked construction & reckless rule changes r trading Srinagar's ecological future for concrete.
When master plans bypassed and cities run without democratic councils, public goods become private loot.
I write this oped in @the_hindu
thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/b…
@OmarAbdullah
tikender panwar retweeted
How are our habitations developing ensuring elderly friendly ecosystem?
If not then what are the intersectionalities that need to be discussed and focused.
We will be discussing all of that.
Do join.
Fri, 6 Nov-10.30 AM
Link : us02web.zoom.us/j/8763344364…
youtube.com/live/gGQlwUl2sMg
How are our habitations developing ensuring elderly friendly ecosystem?
If not then what are the intersectionalities that need to be discussed and focused.
We will be discussing all of that.
Do join.
Fri, 6 Nov-10.30 AM
Link : us02web.zoom.us/j/8763344364…
youtube.com/live/gGQlwUl2sMg
tikender panwar retweeted
3 warnings in 10 months.
BandAid fixes won't help; grouting needs to be demystified.
Unscientific tunneling beneath Shimla is putting thousands at risk.
Your opinion, drop them in the comments.
Read:
tribuneindia.com/news/himach…
3 warnings in 10 months.
BandAid fixes won't help; grouting needs to be demystified.
Unscientific tunneling beneath Shimla is putting thousands at risk.
Your opinion, drop them in the comments.
Read:
tribuneindia.com/news/himach…
MC van comes, she 90 seconds to decide what to save: the scale, the stock, or her dignity."
At the #XIM #university #Bhubaneswar, I delivered a key note address on climate justice and India's street vendors. 👇 (1/5)
youtu.be/16Xow79o5nc?si=DOvN…
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Financial inclusion without spatial security is fragile.
While schemes like PM SVANidhi have reached over 75L vendors with formal credit, a loan means very little when a bulldozer can erase your entire workplace tomorrow morning because of a lack of urban vending plans. (4/5)
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