CPR India Urban

CPR is an independent, non-partisan research inst. & think tank. Urbanisation focus area at CPR is a research platform exploring India’s urbanisation challenge.

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The FIERY @CPR_India CSH Delhi Urban workshop #200 has started. Join online at
https://t.co/K4uuZudi64

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How do you prevent fires in informal urban settlements? What shapes how people react to a fire? Listen to Satorupa Karmakar of IIT Delhi in today's @CPR_India CSH Delhi Urban workshop at 3.45PM IST

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How do you prevent fires in informal urban settlements? What shapes how people react to a fire? Listen to Satorupa Karmakar of IIT Delhi in today's @CPR_India CSH Delhi Urban workshop at 3.45PM IST

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TOMORROW 3.45PM IST @CPR_India CSH_Delhi Workshop No.200. Register Online at
https://t.co/5ertU46zdg

Or join in person at @CPR_India conference room with the best think tank coffee in town

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TOMORROW 3.45PM IST @CPR_India CSH_Delhi Workshop No.200. Register Online at
https://t.co/5ertU46zdg

Or join in person at @CPR_India conference room with the best think tank coffee in town

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Urban fires remain among the most significant yet underreported disasters in the Global South, with informal settlements facing disproportionate risk. In India, the factors that shape household resilience to fire remain underexamined.

Join us on Tuesday, 27th October at 3:45 PM IST for a Special Milestone 200th Urban workshop on "Determinants of Household Resilience to Fire in Informal Settlements: Evidence from the Bastis of Delhi, India" by Satorupa Karmakar, PhD Candidate, UQIITD Research Academy (University of Queensland–Indian Institute of Technology Delhi), co-organised with the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH Delhi).

Based on 253 households surveys across 30 bastis in Delhi, this workshop will look at different factors that shape household resilience to fire, including prior experience, economic conditions, social support and sense of place.

Register to attend in person: https://t.co/J0qf5FFNYF

Register to attend via zoom: https://t.co/45lU8X7n24

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TODAY at 3.45 PM IST, at the @CPR_India and CSH urban workshop # 199 join @SwathiShivanand to discuss how workers’ changing relationship with the city and gendered precarities shape their capacity and willingness to organise
In person or register online https://t.co/W5HqXTR1QL

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@CPR_India TODAY at 3.45 PM IST, at the @CPR_India and CSH urban workshop # 199 join @SwathiShivanand to discuss how workers’ changing relationship with the city and gendered precarities shape their capacity and willingness to organise.
Register online at https://t.co/W5HqXTR1QL in person

[Centre for Policy Research @CPR_India]

Where does labour organising happen? Inside the factory, among workers, or across the city?

Join us on Tuesday, 29th September at 3:45 PM IST for a workshop on "City and labour action: Organising in Bengaluru’s Garment Factories" by Dr Swathi Shivanand, Assistant Professor of Social Sciences, Manipal Institute of Liberal Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, MAHE Bengaluru, co-organised with the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH).

Drawing on the history of organising among garment workers in Bengaluru, the workshop will examine how neighbourhoods, workers’ residences and the wider city shape labour action, with particular attention to the organising strategies of the Garment and Textile Workers’ Union (GATWU).

Register to attend via zoom: https://t.co/lzTLjSUJ0T

Register to attend in person: https://t.co/918AqqrFCD

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Next Tuesday Aug. 25, at 3.45PM IST, at @CPR_India & CSH Delhi Workshop # 198 Prof. Preeti Sampat of @kreauniversity will unpack the genealogical relation of land rent to the history of property, caste & capital. Join in person at @CPR_India or register at https://t.co/8ViVKe2YZS

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Happening on 19th August.

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NOW, at 3.45PM IST
JOIN AT https://t.co/R7hdVyTRHB

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TOMORROW 28 JULY 3.45PM IST. @CPR_India will be happy to host you in person. If you can't make it, join online.

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TOMORROW 28 JULY 3.45PM IST. @CPR_India will be happy to host you in person. If you can't make it, join online.

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How did the colonial ideology of improvement shape the urban geography and economy of modern Delhi?

CPR, along with Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH Delhi), is organising a talk by Vandini Mehta, PhD. (Architect and Urban Researcher; Co-founder of Studio VanRO and SVR Foundation, New Delhi; Visiting faculty and Professor, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi)

This talk will unpack the urban history of Karol bagh through the lens of the Delhi Improvement Trust (DIT).

Register to attend in person: https://t.co/jySnyBZbCY

Register to attend Via Zoom: https://t.co/ehZ7G3HlMj

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Did you know that Karol Bagh was a planned extension, like Dwarka is today? How was the Delhi Improvement Trust of that time different from today's DDA? To know more, join Dr Vandini Mehta at the @CPR_India & and @cshdelhi.bsky.social urban workshop no. 197 on JULY 28 at 3.45PM

[Centre for Policy Research @CPR_India]

How did the colonial ideology of improvement shape the urban geography and economy of modern Delhi?

CPR, along with Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH Delhi), is organising a talk by Vandini Mehta, PhD. (Architect and Urban Researcher; Co-founder of Studio VanRO and SVR Foundation, New Delhi; Visiting faculty and Professor, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi)

This talk will unpack the urban history of Karol bagh through the lens of the Delhi Improvement Trust (DIT).

Register to attend in person: https://t.co/jySnyBZbCY

Register to attend Via Zoom: https://t.co/ehZ7G3HlMj

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Happening Today.

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TODAY AT 3PM IST. What kind of graduates will this rapidly changing world need? What kind of education is likely to produce such people?

Join in person at @CPR_India or online at https://t.co/poXFV3bxv8

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Happening today.

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TODAY at 3.45PM. @CPR_India and @cshdelhi.bsky.social workshop #196 on India's newest capital city by @CarolUpadhya of @NIAS_India , a social anthropologist who is intimately familiar with this terrain. If you show up in person, you can enjoy the finest think tank coffee in town

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Happening Today!

Mark your calendars.

Register to attend online: https://
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Register to attend in-person: https://t.co/9AJsDnIY4S

You can download the e-book here: https://
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TODAY at 4PM IST at @CPR_India .

If you can't join in person, register online at https://t.co/QwDQllfMa6

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This Thursday 4 June 4PM IST
Do City, Hinterland & Watershed interact in #Chennai? Is a more-than-human planning possible? Is the ecology of the watershed compatible with urban hinterlands? Engage with @PArabindoo in person at @CPR_India or online at https://t.co/XjRJ9X1Qv6

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TODAY at 3.45PM IST. If you join in person at @CPR_India you can enjoy the best think tank coffee in town! If you can't, then please register online at https://t.co/0t4gAGDG79

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On TUESDAY 26 MAY 3.45PM IST at @CPR_India & @cshdelhi.bsky.social workshop # 195 Shubham Mishra uses archives to show how the natural environment shaped & shapes Delhi's many cities. See more at https://t.co/iwR63RIhkd Join in-person at CPR or online at https://t.co/rve8I1PA3z

[CPR India Urban @CPRUrban]

On TUESDAY 26 MAY 3.45PM IST at @CPR_India & @cshdelhi.bsky.social workshop # 195 Shubham Mishra uses archives to show how the natural environment shaped & shapes Delhi's many cities. See more at https://t.co/iwR63RIhkd Join in-person at CPR or online at https://t.co/rve8I1PA3z

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For more than a thousand years, Delhi has lived many lives. Kingdoms and settlements have flourished here, glittering with power and promise, only to fall to dust, and to rise again.

What can Delhi's environmental past tell us at a time marked by floods, scarcity, and recurring droughts?

Join us on Tuesday, 26 May 2026 at 3:45 PM IST for a workshop on "Hill, Forest, and a River: The Story of a City" by Shubham Mishra (Doctoral Candidate, Faculty ITC, University of Twente, the Netherlands), co-organised with the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH Delhi)

This event will be held in a hybrid mode at the CPR Conference Room and online via Zoom.

Register to attend in person: https://t.co/SXk9cNZPZX

Register to attend via Zoom: https://t.co/UZg9kFCwDh

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TODAY at 2PM at #WUF13 in #Baku, Multipurpose Hall No. 6, join experts from @CPR_India, @CEPTuniversity, @UNHABITAT, @AHFMag, @OECD, @sciencespo and The Entrepreneurship and Partnerships Lab on Blended Finance and #affordablehousing

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In #Baku for #WUF13? Then, don't miss this great session by @CPR_India @ADB_HQ, @UNHABITAT & @UNESCAP Friday 22 May 10AM on rural urban linkages and the urban transformation