As India urbanizes, cities need to prepare to carry their new loads. New beginnings have to be made in injecting finance and expertise into municipal administrations. Mayors and councillors should be better empowered, more accountable and higher up the rungs of the political ladder.
Crucial to improving the status of cities is openly discussing their problems and sharing ideas for making urban spaces inclusive and productive. Kirtee Shah, a veteran architect based in Ahmedabad, has been making a valiant attempt to do just that with a series of webinars. Civil Society spoke to him about what he hopes. . .
