Urban Land in India: The Case of Mumbai – March 2012
The Department of Economics, Mumbai University in collaboration with the Indian Institute for Human Settlements organised a two-day conference on urban land in India. The conference used Mumbai Metropolitan Region’s land market as a lens through which larger theoretical and policy issues relevant for urban land markets in India can be understood. The conference brought together 50-60 students, academic experts, and practitioners to formulate a pragmatic, well-grounded research agenda on urban land with special focus on the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.
India Urban Conference (IUC) – November 2011
The Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), in partnership with the South Asian Studies Council at Yale University and Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy (JCCD) organised the India Urban Conference: Evidence and Experience (IUC) as a counterpart to the series of international conferences on Urban India beginning in April 2011.
The IUC was a series of events designed to raise the salience of urban challenges and opportunities in the ongoing debate of India’s development. IUC incorporated the practitioner perspective in Mysore (17-20 November, 2011) and presented focused discussions for policy impact in Delhi (22 November, 2011).
Inclusive Cities Workshop – June 2011
To deliberate on the multiple facets of this exclusion, a workshop on ‘Inclusive Cities in India’ was jointly organised by SEWA, IIHS, World Bank and DFID, UK. The main objectives of this workshop were to understand what exclusion means in an urban context; begin to develop a “vision” of inclusive Indian cities; examine the “inclusion and exclusion” impacts of existing urban development policies and programmes; and understand potential policy directions to inform urban inclusion in government policies and programs in the XII Plan.
