It was a noisy morning in Bengaluru, when numerous senior citizens stormed into the office of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the administrative office responsible for civic and infrastructural assets of the Greater … READ FULL STORY
Maharashtra’s minister of state for urban development, Ranjit Patil, on March 28, 2018, informed the legislative council that a proposal for uniform development control rules (DCR) for eight municipal corporations under the Mumbai Metropolitan … READ FULL STORY
The housing and urban affairs ministry will review the smart city tag for New Town Kolkata, union minister Hardeep Singh Puri has said, amid reports that the city’s authorities have not implemented any project … READ FULL STORY
According to the National Housing Bank’s RESIDEX, property prices in Kochi grew by 12.8 per cent in the October-December quarter of 2017. This comes at a time, when the top 10 property markets are … READ FULL STORY
Pune, with a score of 5.1, has been ranked first, when it comes to local governance, followed by Kolkata, Thiruvananthapuram, Bhubaneswar and Surat, according to the Annual Survey of India’s City-System (ASICS) undertaken for … READ FULL STORY
According to noted architect Balkrishna Doshi, a ‘smart city’ is one that is ‘integral, efficient, uses less energy, gives more choices, is more and more independent and self-sustainable’. “When a building celebrates life, then … READ FULL STORY
2018-02-02 | 7:28 PM Budget 2018: A lot more could have been done, say home buyers With the Union Budget for 2018-19 out of the way, Housing.com News spoke to several property seekers … READ FULL STORY
A Scottish university, on January 17, 2018, announced an agreement with the New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA), to collaborate on a new satellite city in West Bengal. The agreement will see academics from … READ FULL STORY
Twenty cities across three Indian states of Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan, are likely to have fast-track development under a new Indo-Canadian initiative to train smart city planners on capacity-building and governance, according to experts … READ FULL STORY
Various works, to the tune of Rs 700 crores, were approved on October 31, 2017, by the board of directors constituted for the Thane Smart City Project. The works were approved in a meeting … READ FULL STORY
The centre has asked states and union territories, to ensure commencement of work on 261 projects in 60 cities, announced between January and September 2016 under the Smart City Mission, by November, 2017. The … READ FULL STORY
For decades, independent India peacefully lived with the concept of perpetual leases, inherited from the colonial era. Today, India is a country under construction. However, the governments’ design for housing, has perhaps failed to … READ FULL STORY
Researchers from the University of Lincoln in the United Kingdom, have conducted a detailed analysis of the environmental implications of planned developments, which would see medium-rise housing (between three and five storeys) being replaced … READ FULL STORY
