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Beyond housing: Child and community centered habitat transformation

The volume is one of the first international publications to link the improvement of the built environment on the ‘world of the child’. It underlines the need for the integration

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Recovering from earthquakes: Response, reconstruction and impact mitigation in India

Earthquakes come without warning, and often cause massive devastation, resulting not only in the loss of property but also of lives. Many of the survivors suffer from intense and lasting

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Swept off the map: Surviving eviction and resettlement in Delhi

In January 2004, the Tourism Ministry of the Government of India announced its plan of developing a 100-acre strip of land on the banks of the Yamuna into a riverside

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Urban India 2011: Evidence

India’s urban transition, a once in history phenomenon, has the potential to shift the country’s social, environmental, political, and economic trajectory. It could catalyse, the end of calorie poverty if

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Climate change 2014: Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability

This latest Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will again form the standard reference for all those concerned with climate change and its consequences, including

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Urban India 2015: Evidence

The second edition of IIHS’ urban atlas series is entitled Urban India 2015: Evidence. The themed urban atlas covers a set of sectors: socio-spatial demographics, transport, energy, affordable housing, water

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Urban India 2016: Evidence

Over the last decade, political, economic and policy discourses around sustainable and inclusive development in India have slowly veered towards the opportunities offered by India’s urban transition and its potential

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In the public’s interest: Evictions, citizenship and inequality in contemporary Delhi

Like many cities in the Global South, New Delhi has not been built by architects, engineers or planners, but by residents themselves. One form of such auto-construction is the basti—an

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The urban food system of Bangalore, India

Bangalore (officially Bangaluru) is one of India’s fastest-growing cities. It is now the fifth-largest urban agglomeration in India, and the capital and primate city of the state of Karnataka in

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Land records modernisation: Haryana

During 2014–2015, a team of researchers at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements conducted a series of primary and secondary studies on land record modernisation initiatives across five states of

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Land records modernisation: Himachal Pradesh

During 2014–2015, a team of researchers at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements conducted a series of primary and secondary studies on land record modernisation initiatives across five states of

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Land records modernisation: Gujarat

During 2014–2015, a team of researchers at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements conducted a series of primary and secondary studies on land record modernisation initiatives across five states of

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