Question Of Cities

Forum for Nature, People and Sustainability. We ask the difficult questions about cities and seek answers.

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From Chilla Khadar to Madrasi Camp, reports from Delhi’s informal settlements reveal different forms of voter exclusion. The link between informality and voter deletions may be difficult to prove, but the pattern demands attention, writes @dharspeaks
https://t.co/2VeO9VRBcO

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The Brahmaputra Riverfront may look new, but the river’s relationship with the city runs much deeper. Purba Barua asks what this makeover leaves out: people’s access to it, and the ecological costs of reshaping the land-water relationship.
https://t.co/ZK2OOp6YcN

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The Brahmaputra riverfront reflects a larger shift in Guwahati’s idea of development. Roads and beautification projects offer political visibility, while basic infrastructure for water and waste management remains less visible, writes Purba Barua,
https://t.co/ZK2OOp7w2l

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Guwahati’s 1.2-km Brahmaputra riverfront was transformed in just six months, with landscaped gardens, walkways and decorative lighting. But as Purba Barua asks, whose riverfront is it, and who gets to feel at home there?
https://t.co/ZK2OOp6YcN

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Delhi’s Draft Master Plan 2041 received over 25,000 suggestions on informal housing and livelihoods. Where did they go? Into a black box. Public consultation means little if people’s demands go unanswered, write Matthew Idicula and Shoubhik Chatterjee.
https://t.co/kmTk4CIccK

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Delhi’s Master Plan 2047 offers regularisation to unauthorised colonies, but only in-situ rehabilitation to slum and JJ cluster residents. The plan draws a line between whose homes deserve legal recognition and whose don’t. Read here:
https://t.co/kmTk4CHEnc

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Delhi recognises street vendors and waste pickers in its Master Plan 2047. But recognition offers little security when plans for pedestrianisation and multi-utility zones could threaten their livelihoods, write Matthew Idicula and Shoubhik Chatterjee.
https://t.co/kmTk4CIccK

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(6/6) The Editors Guild of India (EGi) has condemned these detentions. #delhipolice #jantarmantarprotests

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(1/6) More than 37 journalists detained in the country over anti-CEC protests, finds a Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) report.
https://t.co/3GJVDZRr2U
@KunalMajumder

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(5/6) “At least five journalists were struck by police, according to their own accounts or their outlets.” delhipolice #jantarmantarprotests #delhipolice

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(9/9)The problem with designated spaces, is that they are often far from the seat of power and isolated enough for protesting voices to reach authorities or the public. Streets have always been the ultimate public spaces for dissenters and protesters.
https://t.co/SdEL0qbO49

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(1/9) When all ways to prevent protests or disrupt them have failed, Delhi Police has done the only thing they could — denotify #JantarMantar as a protest venue.

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(8/9)In this piece, @smrutibombay writes how
resistance and protests are increasingly framed as undesirable, even anti-national; simultaneously repressed, as we see in Delhi today. Yet, they have always defined the character of cities. https://t.co/S9Sq8GJ04Q