The lane outside my house has been dug up for over a month and a half now. The process of laying down new sewer lines is painfully slow and the toxic cocktail of dust, debris and Delhi’s omnipresent pollution is becoming a health hazard for the residents. In the middle of this urban repair, PM

India’s cities are growing and creating wide spectrum of opportunities. This means that there are a lot of people flocking to these cities in search of jobs, higher studies or just for a more cosmopolitan lifestyle. In other words, today’s real estate market is flooded with prospective renters. The sky-high property prices in the larger

Mumbai’s residential real estate market continues to remain lack-lustre, and unsold stock is piling up. Currently, the inventory overhang in the MMR region stands at a staggering 30 months. In response to the unrelenting sluggishness in the market, Mumbai’s residential developers have been offering various schemes to entice fence-sitters; at a recently-held property exhibition in

To say the least, Mumbai’s draft DP 2034 had some major drawbacks, particularly concerning the mapping of existing land use and proposals related to densification, infrastructure, and open spaces. The approach of this DP was to guide development with differential FSI as an instrument with densification of transit oriented corridors. This concept is acceptable; however,