The Times of India reviewed our study on urban mobility where we calculate average commute times and identify exact traffic chokepoints in Mumbai using Uber movement data.
Excerpts:
"A commute that should last 30 minutes in free-flowing traffic takes over an ho...
The average 30-minute drive in Mumbai more than doubles to 66 minutes due to the city’s notoriously congested roads, according to IDFC Institute’s analysis of more than 53 million Uber Movement data points.
This means that Mumbaikers waste 55% of their commuting time stuck in traffic, e...
Former Resident Senior Fellow, Alexander Tabarrok, discusses Mumbai's housing crisis with CEO and Senior Fellow, Reuben Abraham, and Junior Fellow, Kshitij Batra. ...
Richard Florida writes about the new Brookings study, Redefining Global Cities. He speaks of a new typology of global cities drivinig the world economy.
"Globalization might make us feel small in a growing world, but the lessons of urbanization should remind us how much more powerful w...
In this Idea's for India column, Visiting Fellow Mudit Kapoor, Senior Associate Vaidehi Tandel and Consulting Senior Associate Komal Hiranandani, argue that alternative definitions of 'urban' are better suited than the administrative definition used by the government to determine poli...
In this joint Hindustan Times and Dawn feature, maps show the incredible growth of Delhi in the decade after Partition as half a million refugees poured into the city, and hundreds of thousands fled across the border.
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This post in Livemint, argues that the challenges posed by urban sprawl can be better addressed by an institutional framework that establishes multi-scale governance and a policy approach that prioritizes the provision of urban amenities in peri-urban areas. Excerpt below
"...As I...
Watch 5,700 Years of the Rise and Fall of Cities in this Metrocosm Animation in Guardian Cities
"The Sumerian city of Eridu marks the dawn of urbanisation in 3700BC, which trickles around Mesopotamia, Iran, India and China before eventually coming west to the Mediterranean. Mapping the data...
This Cityscope blogpost discusses the story of the coming urban explosion which is about the rise of medium-sized cities.
"...The past decade has seen the number of Asian intermediary cities explode from 342 to 629 — a far faster rate of expansion than seen for the region’s l...
In a recent article in the Indian Express, Bibek Debroy discussed some of the problems with the way urban and rural is defined in India and the implications these definitions have for public goods and service delivery. Debroy pointed to the fact that rural is a residual category,...
