Mukta Naik
Mukta Naik is an architect and urban planner, working with Delhi-based micro Home Solutions. She is currently a Fellow with the Future Institute and is researching issues related to housing of low-income migrants in Indian cities.
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How professional urbanists and activists work together to make urban spaces safe for women
Mukta Naik describes how urbanists, activists and authorities have made the most of each others' expertise after recent crimes in Delhi and Gurgaon.
How do we reconcile the planner's perceptions with the slum dwellers' reality? India's Rajiv Awas Yojana
The Government of India has launched a grand housing scheme for a 'slum-free India'. But can grand schemes work when planners and policymakers neither understand the reality of the urban poor nor connect to their aspirations?