Dr. Gautam Bhan is the senior lead of academics and research at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bengaluru. He works on urban poverty, inequality, housing, and social protection, with a focus on cities of the global south. He has most recently authored In the Public’s Interest: Evictions, Citizenship, and Inequality in Contemporary Delhi (Orient Blackswan/University of Georgia Press, 2016) and is a co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South (Routledge, 2019).
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The Vulnerable Foundations of India’s Urbanism
In Delhi—a city of 17 million people—7.2 million residents already qualified for food aid before the pandemic. After, the numbers skyrocketed.
Stalling: How to Save the Global City
The image above is both a place and a placeholder. Flattened into the increasingly global language of digitally rendered landscapes—what South …












