City Sense: Planning in India has Ignored Urban Poor, Nature, and Heritage, Says K T Ravindran

In the second episode of City Sense, the former deputy mayor of Shimla, Tikender Singh Panwar, talks to K. T. Ravindran, the former Head of Urban Design at the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi, about all this and more.
Interview with K. T. Ravindran
Interviewed by Tikender Singh Panwar Produced by Newsclick Team,

As India stakes its claim to being the fifth-largest economy in the world, there are still many fronts within the country where much remains to be done. Urban planning is one of these fronts. Some of the world's most polluted cities are in India, and the condition of the urban poor in the country is alarming. Our rivers are turning into drains. What is the cause of it all?

In the second episode of City Sense, the former deputy mayor of Shimla, Tikender Singh Panwar, talks to K. T. Ravindran, the former Head of Urban Design at the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi, about all this and more.