A study analyzing the state of open data in Urban India through a people and data lens.
Tag: Urban Governance
Methods to measure spatial access to healthcare facilities in cities: A case study of the urban poor in Chennai
This paper uses geospatial models to measure access to healthcare facilities by the urban poor in Chennai.
Embed open data principles in Master Plans to make planning more inclusive and participatory
An open data culture needs to be built within urban planning exercises.
Data can play an important role in helping India recover from COVID-19
A structural shift in thinking about data within Indian urban governance is needed. This piece highlights how data can play an important role in India’s response and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Indian Cities in the Post Pandemic World
Interview 16 global experts to outline the lessons policymakers can take from COVID-19 to inform a new urban reform agenda.
Urban Growth in India: Horizontal, Chaotic, and Informal
This paper tackles the problem of India’s haphazard urban expansion and provides tactics and ideas that policymakers can implement to transform disorderly growth into better-planned cities.
Indian cities may not be sprawling, but their density is a major concern especially in a pandemic
10 cities account for over 53% of India’s COVID-19 cases. The population density of crowded cities like Mumbai is often blamed. However, density is not at fault, rather poor management of it is.