URBANISATION AND URBAN PLANNING

A roadside art fair in Bangalore. India is close to 50 per cent urban but considers itself a nation of villages, say the writers. They add that this seriously affects the country's growth prospects, leading to inefficiencies and loss of productivity

India is a land of cities, not villages

Jan 14, 2019, 5:00 am

Singapore Works: Designing both a city and a country

Jan 10, 2019, 5:00 am

Leave the chickens alone, please

Dec 20, 2018, 5:00 am

Dance a passport out of poverty for Yunnan children

Dec 7, 2018, 8:00 am
New Clark City is designed to become the Philippines' first smart and green metropolis with driverless cars, sprawling parks, a state-of-the-art railway and disaster-proof infrastructure. New Songdo City in South Korea was conceived nearly 20 years a

Smart-city solutions for Asia need not be grandiose projects

Dec 6, 2018, 5:00 am
The ground-level open courtyard at Kampung Admiralty, which was named Building of the Year at this year's World Architecture Festival. This win is a strong signal of promising trends in the future evolution of Singapore's urban landscape, say the wri

When high-rise living gets a lift

Dec 6, 2018, 5:00 am

Sinking Jakarta could face major flooding by 2025, experts say

Dec 5, 2018, 2:24 pm

From Afghanistan to the Outback: refugees ditch Australia's overcrowded cities

Nov 18, 2018, 1:03 pm

Nimby critics of Amazon HQ2 are short-sighted

Nov 15, 2018, 5:00 am
The Gantry Plaza State Park, in the Long Island City neighbourhood of Queens. Amazon is reportedly close to announcing a decision to divide its next headquarters between Long Island City and Northern Virginia.

A warning from Seattle to Amazon's HQ2

Nov 8, 2018, 5:00 am