By Amit Dave, Gloria Dickie and Shilpa Jamkhandikar AHMEDABAD (Reuters) - Hundreds of roofs in the informal settlements of ...

But the flip side is also true: if handled poorly, urbanization could not only impede development but also give rise to slums—and already, the UN reports, one out of every three urban dwellers ...

Since then, for over seven decades now, the slum on the terrace of Karnani Estate has been home to families whose ancestors ...

A global scientific trial in Ahmedabad is testing "cool roofs" by painting 400 slum homes with reflective white paint to ...

Today, 1 billion people live in urban slums, and 1.5 billion people live in countries affected by repeated cycles of violence. In the past decade, the number of people affected by natural disasters ...

This course aims at supporting policy makers and urban practitioners to better respond to the challenge of slums. The course focuses on the conceptual and operational aspects of designing, ...

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The Maharashtra government has implemented measures to regulate the Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) market for Dharavi's ...