The Central government’s AI-assisted pilot land survey project, NAKSHA, will be implemented in 12 villages under the Kulgaon-Badlapur Municipal Council (KBMC) in Thane district of Maharashtra, an ...

Mumbai: Central Railway (CR) will demolish 200 slum structures in Mumbai's Vidyavihar as part of the construction project of the 5th and 6th railway line between Kurla and Parel. The project is going ...

Re-WET has chosen farming on the banks of Korail Lake as a way to improve the water quality and curb waste dumping. The team believes this solution could be applied to other informal settlements acros ...

If there is any policy that is topmost in Governor Biodun Oyebanji’s heart, it is making Ado-Ekiti assume the status of a befitting State Capital. By his own estimation, the town is not just the ...

A Curtin University-led paper, "The Use of Plastic as a Household Fuel among the Urban Poor in the Global South" published in ...

The Dharavi Redevelopment Project has achieved a milestone by completing over 50,000 door-to-door surveys, a record in Mumbai ...

Growing urban populations, more public awareness of pollution and ambitious redevelopment plans propel big drinking water and wastewater treatment investment in two key cities.

The Supreme Court refused to consider a request for special cycle tracks in cities, saying that more important issues should ...

Her one-bedroom house looks cramped, but living in this urban slum, where water is undrinkable, sanitation poor, and streets filled with heaps of garbage, that’s the least of her worries. An open ...

The court directed the state lawyer that the ‘serious issue’ involved in the petition be brought to the notice of Principal Secretary of the Urban Development Department ... while hearing petition by ...

The nonprofit Institute for Justice will appeal the loss of a lawsuit it filed for Black property owners over Ocean Springs’ decision to label their historic downtown neighborhood as “slum or blighted ...

Because of the uproar, the city rescinded the slum or blight designation and drastically shrunk the urban renewal area, removing the Black neighborhood and other acreage included. “The ruling ...