What makes a city liveable? Who should benefit the most from the growth of a city—financial investors or its residents? On this episode, Sheela Patel, director of SPARC, and Ireena Vittal, former partner at McKinsey, answer these questions and more.

Highlights:

• Who are our cities built for? Whose voices do we prioritise in order to plan our cities better?
• Climate change is not a separate space, but a lens that we must adopt while planning resilient cities. 
• We need to ensure continuous dialogue between those governing the cities and everyone living in the cities.
• Citizens must be active participants in the planning and operation of cities.

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2. ‘Project spending’ can only take our cities so far
3. IDR Explains | Local government in India
4. How can we empower city governments?
5. Fighting COVID-19 in cities
6. Six things we learned from Dr Armida Fernandez
7. The gaps and opportunities in low-income housing
8. How can Indian cities shield vulnerable migrants from climate change? With better affordable housing
9. What India can learn about effective rental housing for migrant workers
10. Photo essay: How sanitation workers live and work in urban India
11. It’s time to reimagine water systems in cities
12. Mumbai’s climate adaptation plan: Designing the city for water
13. Make India climate smart: We have big infrastructure plans but forget to review them through a climate change lens
14. Finding the missing pieces of urban planning puzzle in India

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