Research Publications
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filed under:
Legal Advocacy
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Cyber Myths and the Rest who also live in Silicon valley
- Article by Clifton Rozario examining the excessive focus on the IT industry in Bangalore
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Fire Fighting to Build a Fire?
- Indiscriminate tree cutting in Bangalore by the BMP for road widening points to serious environmental hazards. Will the recently appointed Tree Officer be able to contain this activity within neccesary limits? A discussion.
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Of Master Plans and Illegalities in an era of Transition
- This paper was written during the time of the rewriting of the Master Plan for Bangalore
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The Other Information City
- A Photo essay by Lawrence Liang written for the World Information City event
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India Shining (for whom)
- A Presentation that was made to counter the BJP India Shining Campaign in 2004
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Mumbai to Shanghai without Slums
- This folder contains various documents generated during the slum demolition drive in Mumbai between December 2004 to May 2005
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IMPLICATIONS OF THE 73rd AND 74th AMENDMENTS FOR PLANNING
- This paper seeks to look at the emergence of the new forms of para statal planning in Bangalore, and examines the implications that it may have on decentralization.
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URBAN SPRAWL AND DECENTRALISATION
- An article examining planning and the urban sprawl of bangalore
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SINGAPORE HAS NO SHADOWS!
- A critical examination of the Comprehensive Development Plan 2005 for Bangalore
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Slums Under Fire - a fact finding report on the slum fires in Bangalore
- In the first two weeks of February, we have borne witness to numerous reports in the press regarding fires in various slums of Bangalore. The scary frequency of these slum fires motivated various human rights groups to conduct a fact finding mission into the circumstances surrounding the fires, damage caused, their impacts and the response of the State machinery. From 20th to 22nd February this team visited the burnt slums of Jai Bheem Nagar, Vinayaka Badawane and J.D. Mara and also met with / spoke to the various concerned government officials and the elected representatives. This is the report of this fact finding mission

