Is Heat Just About Temperature?
As cities confront worsening heat waves, heat risk assessments and planning responses rely heavily on temperature-based indicators, transforming the crisis into a meteorological statistic while overlooking the social realities that shape unequal heat exposure and survival.
Today the cyclist is infra-dig unless one is dressed in lycra and riding a high-end cycle that costs more than a car and the reason for cycling is recreation or sport. The cycle as a mode of commute, then, is for the poor, for those who have no other option and such cyclists are not considered as having a right to the road. Yet this humble vehicle – a simple construct of two wheels, a chain, some cranks, pedals, and metal rods - was once considered to be the pinnacle of transportation.
A documentation of urban flood management and disaster preparedness for lessons for urban governance
Compendium of perspectives of the floods in Chennai in December 2015
A GIS analysis of the floods in Chennai in December 2015.
CAG's response to the Justice Rajeswaran Committee Report whose objective was to give an opinion on building violations and guidelines for the regularisation that was proposed by the Tamil Nadu government.
CAG's response to the Justice Rajeswaran Committee Report whose objective was to give an opinion on building violations and guidelines for the regularisation that was proposed by the Tamil Nadu government.
CAG's response to the Justice Rajeswaran Committee Report whose objective was to give an opinion on building violations and guidelines for the regularisation that was proposed by the Tamil Nadu government.
