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Forum for Nature, People and Sustainability. We ask the difficult questions about cities and seek answers.
Joined November 2021
#Mumbai’s public #hospitals are overrun. They carry the burden of patients from across the state. Yet, private hospitals continue to expand - but at what cost to equity? Report @jashvitha and Nikeita Saraf. https://t.co/pdUbh3ypkh
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With its tertiary and secondary hospitals hardly functioning, the pressure falls on the large public hospitals, most of which are located in south and central Mumbai. These also see a large influx of...
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Is state intervention the key? #Noida—with visible state presence & planned drainage—handles floods better. #Gurgaon, India’s private city dream, crumbles: floods, traffic, water crises, heat stress. The cracks are impossible to ignore. Read @dharspeaks:
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Promoted as a haven of urbanisation and India’s showcase of private entities building a city, Gurgaon turned out to be a case study of the limitations and shortcomings of this model. Barely two-three...
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The lesson from #Gurgaon’s faltering private city-making model is clear: Private developers alone can’t build sustainable cities. Public planning & governance remain irreplaceable. @dharspeaks’ unpacks here: #gurgaonrains
https://t.co/60pxmDm8WB
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Promoted as a haven of urbanisation and India’s showcase of private entities building a city, Gurgaon turned out to be a case study of the limitations and shortcomings of this model. Barely two-three...
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#Gurgaon’s private city-making model has hit its limits. Floods, waste, water, traffic gridlock, heat stress, the city is cracking. Because no private player can replace the state in building sustainable, inclusive cities, writes @dharspeaks
#gurgaonrains
https://t.co/60pxmDm8WB
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Promoted as a haven of urbanisation and India’s showcase of private entities building a city, Gurgaon turned out to be a case study of the limitations and shortcomings of this model. Barely two-three...
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High-rises, golf courses, Fortune 500 offices. That was the Gurgaon pitch. Flooded roads, no public transport, broken waste systems. That’s the Gurgaon reality. @dharspeaks unpacks: https://t.co/60pxmDmGM9
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Promoted as a haven of urbanisation and India’s showcase of private entities building a city, Gurgaon turned out to be a case study of the limitations and shortcomings of this model. Barely two-three...
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#Gurgaon was sold as India’s private city dream. Today, it floods after a few hours of rain, chokes on traffic, struggles for water, and gasps in heat. The cracks are impossible to ignore. Read @dharspeaks’ story here: https://t.co/60pxmDmGM9
#gurgaonrains #gurgaontraffic
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Promoted as a haven of urbanisation and India’s showcase of private entities building a city, Gurgaon turned out to be a case study of the limitations and shortcomings of this model. Barely two-three...
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India is entering its urban century. Our future depends on how we choose to imagine the city: as a rigid plan, or as a living system. Read Prem Chandavarkar’s essay in QoC. #privatisation
https://t.co/NZ9bTeEfGv
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How we choose to imagine the city fundamentally affects whether democratic urban governance serves public interest or gets compromised by increasing privatisation. We tend to imagine it as a concep...
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“Planning is a technical project, shielded from public view.” Who does this serve - public interest, or private profit? Prem Chandavarkar in QoC. #privatisation #publiccommons
https://t.co/NZ9bTeDHQX
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How we choose to imagine the city fundamentally affects whether democratic urban governance serves public interest or gets compromised by increasing privatisation. We tend to imagine it as a concep...
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Masterplans simplify cities into technical models, hiding fractures and deepening #privatisation. What if we imagined #cities as living systems instead? Read Prem Chandavarkar’s essay in QoC. https://t.co/NZ9bTeDHQX
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How we choose to imagine the city fundamentally affects whether democratic urban governance serves public interest or gets compromised by increasing privatisation. We tend to imagine it as a concep...
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Gated enclaves, PPP mega-projects, corporatised parks, financialised land - Indian #urbanisation is being privatised. What does this mean for #democracy? Read Prem Chandavarkar in QoC. https://t.co/NZ9bTeDHQX
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How we choose to imagine the city fundamentally affects whether democratic urban governance serves public interest or gets compromised by increasing privatisation. We tend to imagine it as a concep...
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Does urban governance serve the public - or bend to #privatisation? Prem Chandavarkar argues we must imagine the city not as a masterplan, but as a living system. https://t.co/NZ9bTeEfGv
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How we choose to imagine the city fundamentally affects whether democratic urban governance serves public interest or gets compromised by increasing privatisation. We tend to imagine it as a concep...
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It’s a myth that #Mumbai is out of space, writes Alan Abraham. The real problem lies in policy choices that hand public land to private developers, shrinking the city's commons. Read here: https://t.co/qvUJvcqcO0
@BombayGreenway
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There are striking examples of vanishing commons. Open spaces such as maidans, parks, and promenades are claimed by governments for so-called public projects. Mumbai’s open space network has been...
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How does privatisation shape our cities—and our lives? From housing & healthcare to transport, what happens when basic rights are handed to private players or PPPs? Part 3 of our land-use series dives in. Read here 👉 https://t.co/U0mp6JAx73
#GurgaonRains #Gurgaon #Privatisation
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The recent rains in #Gurgaon, India’s Millenium City uncovered how fragile the city’s infrastructure is. Gurgaon, built by private developers, is India’s most expensive cities. Who’s to blame? We uncover in our latest edition. Drops tonight. #gurgaonrains #gurgaonfloods
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Rains in #Gurgaon uncovered how the city's infrastructure is crumbling. Led by private developers, this is a perennial problem for Ggn. Who's to blame? We unpack in our next edition tonight! Stay tuned. #gurgaonfloods #Gurgaontraffic #gurgaonrains
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“The out-of-pocket expenses for healthcare in India is unprecedented and leads to penury, debt, and suicides. People sell homes or land because of a major illness.” Read why India’s #healthcare is failing, in our interview with @SanjayNagral
#PublicHealth
https://t.co/hGGh97cGOF
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With the under-funded and overwhelmed public healthcare system alongside the private which over-treats in pursuit of profits, India has a peculiar combination, says renowned medical practitioner and...
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“Healthcare cannot be done through charity and philanthropy; it has to be mainstream intervention of the state,” says @SanjayNagral. Read our interview with him. #publichealth #mumbai #Health
https://t.co/hGGh97cGOF
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With the under-funded and overwhelmed public healthcare system alongside the private which over-treats in pursuit of profits, India has a peculiar combination, says renowned medical practitioner and...
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COVID-19 showed what a strong public system can achieve. Can the “Mumbai Model” be the norm, not the exception?@SanjayNagral reflects in this interview. #publichealth #Mumbai
https://t.co/hGGh97c8Z7
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With the under-funded and overwhelmed public healthcare system alongside the private which over-treats in pursuit of profits, India has a peculiar combination, says renowned medical practitioner and...
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Insurance schemes like #AyushmanBharat may help the poor. But they also reveal something deeper; the state’s tacit admission that it cannot provide robust #publichealthcare. Read our interview with @SanjayNagral
https://t.co/hGGh97cGOF
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With the under-funded and overwhelmed public healthcare system alongside the private which over-treats in pursuit of profits, India has a peculiar combination, says renowned medical practitioner and...
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India’s #healthcare is marked by paradox: An under-funded public system on one side, and a private sector that over-treats in pursuit of profits on the other. In this interview, @SanjayNagral explains what this means for patients. https://t.co/hGGh97cGOF
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With the under-funded and overwhelmed public healthcare system alongside the private which over-treats in pursuit of profits, India has a peculiar combination, says renowned medical practitioner and...
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