Introduction:
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) started releasing a detailed daily PDF containing information on a variety of indicators such as mortality, containment zones, bed capacity, vaccinations, etc. from June 2020. Such data is useful not only for formulating...
This article in Livemint cites findings from the SATARC Survey, IDFC Institute's flagship survey on crime incidence, satisfaction with the police, and perceptions of safety. Excerpt below.
"A recent large-scale urban survey by IDFC Institute shows that the most commonly experienc...
This Mint article uses our work to illustrate how night lights data can shed light on various aspects of the economy. Excerpts:
"The analysis by IDFC Institute (available as an interactive tool here) also reveals that cities clearly evolve along transportation corridors, which mos...
IDFC Institute's Safety Trends and Reporting of Crime (SATARC) Survey results are quoted in this Livemint piece to get a better sense of the underreporting of crime in Delhi, which tells the story behind the official crime figures put forward by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
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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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In this ET article, Charu Khanna emphasizes the importance of change management in getting public support when working for the common good.
"Organizational Behavior 101 begins with the argument that successful change needs a change champion. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was this...
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In this Mint article, Tadit Kundu says "cities with high population density (like Mumbai) and relatively lower population density (like Patna) should eventually witness equalisation in wages.......however, district-wise data shows otherwise.....big cities, like Mumbai and Delhi, still off...
In this Times of India blog article, Visiting Fellow Shamika Ravi talks about why Delhi's odd even policy will not be sustainable.
She points out that advertising and campaigns about the policy have focused on car pooling and not on using public transport. Car pooling, however, will only wo...
Jonathan Mingle, in this Quartz article, writes that the actions taken by Beijing and Delhi are "the latest stopgap measures used to address a global air pollution emergency that cuts short the lives of over 7 million lives every year. But solving this mounting crisis poses a puzzle f...
The Guardian recently featured research by Urban Age to explore governance structures of cities around the world. Excerpts below:
"Gerald Frug, professor of local government law at Harvard University, stated that 'cities ought to be able to make policies that improve the lives of ...
