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4 days ago · While global warming is responsible for an overall rise in temperatures, it is the urban heat island (UHI) effect which is the main culprit for soaring temperatures in urban areas. ... it is the temperature one experiences while being under a shaded area in open space. However, the moment one steps out into the sun as experienced often by labourers, hawkers and others working outdoors, one would experience something higher than the ambient air temperature. Under direct sunlight, we ...
From fixing the digital divide, to restoring a healthy balance between tourism and housing needs and improving access to green spaces. As countries see some of the effects of COVID-19 beginning to recede, people are beginning to take stock of what has changed in their communities, for better or for worse.
Aug 18, 2020 · Public space has always been a top priority in every city’s urban planning agenda and given today’s world context, these urban spaces have emerged as fundamental elements of cities and...
Mar 29, 2017 · This paper examines how urban space has become very contentious in the cities of Mumbai and Chennai and highlights how inequalities are produced, reproduced and contested through urban space. The primary focus is upon the manner in which space in Kurla, Mumbai, and Kannagi Nagar, Chennai, is created and contested.
Jun 6, 2022 · The projects represent connected open space network, linear corridors, inclusive streetscape design, and urban waterfronts, all of which contribute to making the city more accessible, fun and enjoyable.
Jul 9, 2023 · India’s growing urban population is fuelling the need for open spaces in cities and communities are reclaiming urban spaces lying vacant, unused or underused through “placemaking”. Take the...
Nov 18, 2019 · This paper explores the conceptualization of Urban Green Space (UGS) within India’s urban planning process. In doing so, the context of the Smart Cities Mission (SCM), which is a flagship programme for urban transformation in the country, is chosen.
Apr 1, 2021 · Urban green space is represented by all vegetation cover in and around cities, including urban forest, grassland, parks, green roofs, gardens, urban farms, and street trees, and is widely believed to provide critical ecosystem services and play a vital role in mitigating the negative impacts brought about by urbanization (Bodnaruk et al., 2017).
Jun 4, 2024 · Jessop B (2002) Liberalism, neoliberalism and urban governance: a state-theoretical perspective. In: Brenner N, Theodore N (eds) Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in North America and Western Europe. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 105–125.
Urban space has become a crucial agent in the shaping of urban difference and social hierarchies through material and symbolic techniques of division and exclusion, rang-ing from the privatization of public space to spatialized narratives of inequal-ity (Bayat 2004; Mitlin and Satterthwaite 2013; Roy 2011; Guglar 2004).
