Facts: Cities across the world contribute about 80% of global GDP. In India: Around 50% of a city’s population occupies 10% of the land 26-37 million families in urban India reside in informal housing. Impacts of unbalanced urbanization in India: Environmental Vulnerability: Unbalanced development has made cities more vulnerable to environmental shocks that get more frequent …
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Facts: As per the World Air Quality Report of 2020, published by IQAir, 22 out of the 30 most polluted cities in the world are in India. Delhi’s pollution, in November, is generally above 300 on AQI scale. It is the worst amongst the G20 members capital’s where AQI is below 50 mostly, as per World Air …
Context: Azim Premji University has released a report titled “Healthcare equity in urban India”. Findings: Urban Population: A third of India’s population lives in urban areas. There was a rapid growth in this segment from about 18% (1960) to 28.53% (2001) and 34% (in 2019). Rise in Urban poverty: Close to 30% of people living in urban areas …
What is ecological urbanism? Ecological urbanism is an approach to urban planning which puts nature at the centre of the design process in order to create better places and provide solutions to the multiple social, economic and environmental challenges facing the 21st Century city. How is urban ecology linked to a city’s sustainability? Many of …
Utility: Analysis of Urban schemes which can be used in answers related to Urbanisation or on direct questions on these schemes. Context: Completion of six years of implementation of three major flagship missions of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs: Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban), Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) and …
Why in news? All major cities acted as COVID epicentres. PM Modi’s call for better urban planning to make our cities mor liveable and sustainable with better amenities. What is needed in liveable cities? Better and affordable housing Better work environment. Sort and efficient travel facilities. What happened during COVID? In the first hundred days …
Fact: Nearly a third of the 100 cities in the world susceptible to ‘water risk’are in India, according to the WWF Water Risk Filter. What is Water Risk Filter? This is an online tool, co-developed by the Worldwide Fund for Nature that helps evaluate the severity of risk places faced by graphically illustrating various factors …
2 ways to define urban areas 1) Statutory town These towns are defined by state governments and place India’s urbanisation rate at 26.7%. A statutory town includes all places with a municipality, corporation, cantonment board or notified town area committee. 2) Census-based criteria Census adopts three criteria to define what is urban The three criteria …
Context Rapid growth of Urban Slums in India and lack of adequate policies to tackle it. How should India address this issue? We need to collect right data as there are no concrete figures on these temporary and semi-permanent settlements. Slums have a fluid definition and it leads to exclusion of people. The 2011 Census …
The index conceived in June 2017 aims to help cities assess their liveability vis-a-vis global and national benchmarks and encourage cities to move towards an ‘outcome-based’ approach to urban planning and management. It covers 111 cities that are smart city contenders, capital cities and cities with population of 1 million plus. It captures quality …