What Urban Planning needs to learn from Civil Aviation
Land is scarce but sky has no limits! You might think that the two fields have nothing in common. One deals with the spaces and activities on ground whereas the latter deals with the never-ending air...
View ArticlePlanners as Knowledge Workers- Key to nation’s growth!
Planners are regarded as knowledge workers! Planners can be knowledge generators by interpreting information and getting knowledge out of it, knowledge consumers as they can use existing knowledge to...
View ArticlePlanners – Professionals with many hats, Profession with endless struggle
Jack of all trades, master of none….., it sounds so familiar, it’s something we learnt to describe ourselves. Some of us were happy with this figure of speech, and others lacked a more appropriate way...
View ArticleUrban Planning – Moving Forward or Moving Backward or Standing Still?
Smart cities, technical revolution, flying cars, global warming, carbon emissions, environmental conservation, green summits, IOT, AL, ML, carbon neutral cities and on and on. These are the buzzwords....
View ArticleDare to look beyond the traditional setup – Learn, Unlearn, Diversify, Adapt
There are multiple ways of approaching a problem and finding solution, and at times the best solution is finding a middle way out. Trying to understand the requirement of market and trying to cop up...
View ArticleCity Leaders are selling us to Tech Giants. And it’s Disturbing!
Cities! Most of us probably never get out of them. We start our day and end in the very city we live in. Some try to escape them but just for a small time which is usually for “Leisure” but once this...
View ArticleImpact of Social Media on Democracy: Navigating Political Discourse,...
Introduction The influence of social media on democracy is a complex and far-reaching phenomenon that has reshaped the political landscape in unprecedented ways. These platforms have revolutionised how...
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