White Roofs, Cool Homes: Ahmedabad’s Slums Ready To Fight The Heat Using THIS Method
A global scientific trial in Ahmedabad is testing "cool roofs" by painting 400 slum homes with reflective white paint to ...
Kandivali slum razed twice, residents in limbo
This is not the first time they have found themselves in this predicament. In 2012, the slum was razed, ironically for ...
Mumbai News: Marol Gaothan Residents Protest BMC, SRA Notices Classifying Heritage Homes As 'Slums'
Mumbai: After residents of Kurla Christian Village and Bamanwada, Andheri East, protested against notices that erroneously ...
Mumbai News: Kurla Christian Village Protests 'Slum' Label, Calls For SRA Survey Cancellation
Vivian D'Souza, an advocate, who opposed the survey said the gaothans, or villages, have a distinct character and cannot be ...
Indian slums get 'cool roofs' to combat extreme heat
The effort is part of a global scientific trial to study how indoor heat impacts health and economic outcomes in developing ...
Adani Enterprises shares in focus after group wins Rs 36,000 crore Motital Nagar redevelopment project in Mumbai
Adani Enterprises will be in focus after its real estate arm, Adani Properties Pvt Ltd, secured the contract for the ...
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World according to real estate
Real estate’s transformation from necessity to speculative asset accelerated after World War II. Within decades, everything ...
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Livelihoods, dreams reduced to ashes
With her rickshaw-puller husband gone, survival became Renu Begum’s only goal. Poverty forced her to leave Kishoreganj and ...
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Indian slums get 'cool roofs' to combat extreme heat
In the Vanzara Vas slum in the Narol area of the city, which has more than 2,000 dwellings, most of them airless, one-room homes, residents that are part of the project, such as Nehal Vijaybhai ...