Tag: sustainable urbanisation
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Retrofitting Buildings in India: Balancing the Goals of Sustainability and Social Equity
Retrofitting is the process of making additions to or alterations of existing structures. In the context of buildings, retrofitting would involve making modifications to the existing building stock in an attempt to make it more energy-efficient, reduce its seismic vulnerability or adopt it as a component of hazard mitigation in general. It is important to note…
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Sustainable Measures for Revamping Urbanisation and Environmental Policies
We organized a one-day public policy Symposium on Urbanisation and Environmental Policies for students and young professionals in New Delhi. It was aimed at reflecting on environmental policies and analyzing their impact on the contemporary urban growth landscape of our country. The discussions and presentations were focused on the need to improve the present legal…
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The Feat of Ecologically Sensitive Urbanisation: What India can learn from its Asian peers
By Riya Mathur, SRCC, New Delhi. Given that the purpose of urbanization for any developing country is to produce highly efficient urban areas for better consumption and efficient management of resources and ensuring public welfare, India needs a concrete structure to embark on this journey. In a time when rural to urban migration is high…