Read post by PI Ayona Datta on how the current COVID19 crisis will affect India’s small cities.
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Research Assistant, Varun Patil continues his commentary with a part 2 on searching for the ‘Smart city’ in Jalandhar. In this post, he explores the ongoing work of the smart city interventions which aim to reduce congestion and improve traffic.
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Project PI Ayona Datta introduces Shimla, through the paradoxes of speed, time and slowness in the future smart city. While Shimla dreams of a smart urban future, the everyday life in its informal settlements along the shifting sliding hill slopes reminds us that this dream needs to adjust to the slow contoured life of the hills.
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Research Assistant, Shilpa Dahake, introduces Nashik and the ongoing Smart City Project in detail. Specifically, she elaborates on the effects brought about by the Smart Road Project, as well as the sentiments shared by the locals of the area through her interactions with them during her fieldwork.
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In this piece, Research Assistant, Varun Patil, delves into the beauty of the 63-Acre Burlton Park and introduces the proposed plans for the erection of a Smart Sports Hub. This post celebrates the compendious array of the activities and time spent at Burlton Park by the locals of Jalandhar and touches on the sentiments of supporters and critics on building the said Sports Hub.
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Professor Sanjay Srivastava, project India Principal Investigator and Professor of Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University, introduces his previous work related to our project research themes as part of his British Academy Visiting Fellowship 2018 project entitled ‘Satellite Mapping, Big Data and the Politics of Space at the Margins of the Indian City’.
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