Cities
A city is a large human settlement. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. This concentration also can have significant negative consequences, such as forming urban heat islands, concentrating pollution, and stressing water supplies and other resources. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 6 January 2025 English
Urban Heat Stress Tracker: Smaller cities-Chandigarh, Jaipur, Lucknow and Pune …
Urban Heat Stress Tracker: Smaller cities-Chandigarh, Jaipur, Lucknow and Pune …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 6 December 2024 English
This report was published by the Centre for Science and Environment, a New Delhi based public interest research organisation, on August 6, 2024. It has been written by Avikal Somvanshi …
growing problem of ground-level ozone in Indian cities. While policy and public attention is nearly fully … understanding of what is going on in different cities and regions to inform mitigation. Due to the … sources, such as plants. Ozone not only builds up in cities but also drifts long distances to form a regional …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 7 October 2024 English
The Fairwork ratings provide an independent perspective on labour conditions of platform work for policymakers, platform companies, workers, and consumers. Our goal is to show that better, and fairer, jobs …
India, 440 workers were interviewed across five cities. These interviews do not aim to be a statistically … interviewed 440 workers from the 11 platforms in five cities and collected evidence from the managements of … difficulties recruiting enough workers across the various cities, a reflection of the platform’s uncertain future … studies, with 40 workers per platform, across five cities, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram … across the different locations in the studied cities. Where possible, attempts were made to speak to …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 31 August 2024 English
the last makers of Rajasthan’s iconic percussion instrument – the khartal. Others have migrated to cities to make furniture as they say it pays better …
instrument – the khartal. Others have migrated to cities to make furniture as they say it pays better …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 14 August 2024 English
with urban expansion from 2001-2023. The study focuses on these trends in the four smaller metro cities of Chandigarh, Jaipur, Lucknow and Pune. It is written by Sharanjeet Kaur and Avikal Somvanshi, researchers … over rapidly changing climate trends and an increase in the incidence of heat waves across Indian cities. Heat stress affects economies and infrastructure and consequently the well-being of the people, …
Urban Heat Stress Tracker Smaller cities Chandigarh, Jaipur, Lucknow and PuneUrban Lab - Centre … Somvanshi 2024, Urban Heat Stress Tracker: Smaller cities–Chandigarh, Jaipur, Lucknow and Pune, Centre for … Urban Heat Stress Tracker Smaller cities Chandigarh, Jaipur, Lucknow and PuneUrban Lab … immune to this worsening phenomenon. States and cities are publishing their heat action plans to safeguard … extremes, including heat waves, have intensified in cities. It further notes that urban areas experience …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 August 2024 English
Biomass burning, used mainly for cooking, is a key contributor to Household Air Pollution (HAP). It poses health risks especially for women and children as they are directly exposed to …
.html. 2. Banerjee-Guha, S. (2002). Shifting Cities: Urban Restructuring in Mumbai. Economic and Political …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 29 July 2024 English
This report is written by Suhas Chakma of Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program (IPLP), University of Arizona. Published in July 2024, the report examines the conflict between tiger conservation …
12 December 2023, https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/tribals-relocated-from-mudumalai-tiger- … 26 August 2022, https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumbai-news/tribal-men-burnt-with-hot- bars-fo …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 21 July 2024 English
A diverse group of people across gender spectrum and their allies from neighboring cities and states came together to celebrate Mysuru's second Pride march …
gender spectrum and their allies from neighboring cities and states came together to celebrate Mysuru's …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 28 June 2024 English
The other two states held legislative elections in 2023 and were ruled by the BJP for part of the year. [...] The other two states held legislative elections in 20 …
March 20, 2023, https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/4-months-50-rallies-in-maharashtra-one- … October 22, 2023, https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/hyderabad/bjp-revokes-suspension-telangana-mla … 2024, sec. Mumbai, https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/bjp-mlas-nitesh-rane-t-raja-singh-booke … January 10, 2023, https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/dehradun-news/bjp-alone-can-t-take-credit-for- …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 18 May 2024 English
This research paper looks at the impact of urbanisation on lake systems in Bengaluru, with a focus on the vegetation growing in the lake and expansion of built-up areas in …
are considered “urban” as they live in towns or cities. Latter figures are likely to surge by nearly … expansion, a peculiar pattern of outward growth of cities in many countries of the Global South (Chakraborty … use efficiency across the global sample of 466 cities with million inhabitants. Habitat. Int. 120, 102503 … 2011. Speculating on the next world city. Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of being Global … 2015. Climate resilient cities: vulnerability profiling of twenty Indian cities. Dev. India 351–365. https://doi …
