Tag: #urbanisation
Articles tagged with #urbanisation
Bungamati builds back
A decade after the 2015 earthquake, ancient town balances reconstruction with restoration
Kathmandu’s liquid landscape
Research maps network of ancient water canals that still function despite urban pressure
Back to the land in the cities
Urban agriculture can be Nepal's solution to falling food production, can create jobs, recharge groundwater and preserve open spaces
Pouring concrete on rice fields
On Nepal’s annual Rice Day, a reminder about urban growth devouring paddy fields
The rise of high-rises
Nine years after the 2015 earthquake, Kathmandu has to ask: how safe are the new tall structures
Rooftop agriculture on the roof of the world
Green onions grown recycling plastic waste at Manandhar’s rooftop. Photo: BIJAYA MANANDHARWhen the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted food supply,…
Cost of living in a big city
All photos: GOPEN RAIOver the last decades, Nepal’s socio-political transformation has led the country from an agriculturally-dependent rural…
North Indian heat wave hits Nepal
Source: TROPICAL TIDBITS.COMSource: SCOTT DUNCANThis spring, northern India saw the hottest March since records started being kept 120 years…
Home is where the heart is
What drives Nepal's singular obsession with owning a house?
Right trees for right seasons in Kathmandu
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIEvery spring Kathmandu turns into a city of flowers blooming with jacaranda and bougainvillea. People wait year-round to…
A load of rubbish
Kathmandu Valley's only landfill site Sisdole has reached its maximum capacity. All photos: AMIT MACHAMASINepal’s capital stank for more than a…
Kathmandu's ‘flash floods’ are 4 decades in the making
Aerial photograph of Kathmandu Valley, looking west over the floodplain in 1967. Photo: EARL WEBB/DOUG HALL PEACE CORPS COLLECTIONS Kathmandu…
Nepal braces for monsoon-pandemic double hit
A landslide in Jajarkot last year. Photo: RSSBy any measure, the past year has been disastrous for Nepal. The Covid-19 lockdowns devastated the…
Night of the firefly
Many of us have fond childhood memories of the जुनकिरी (firefly), chasing the fascinating lightning bugs through fields and forests. Across the…
“Sight for sore eyes in Kathmandu”
Many people do not know where Maitighar intersection got its name: there used to be the office of the Nepali movie माइतीघर in the 1960s with a…
Solution to Kathmandu’s water crisis
Photo: SONIA AWALEHaphazard urbanisation, a continually growing population and long delays in the finalisation of the Melamchi Project have…
The dangers of the dengue virus
Haphazard urbanisation in Nepal has created ideal conditions for the mosquito that carries the disease
Nepal villages cope with climate-induced floods
Farmers in the Tarai displaced by floods return to their homes, better protected for the next disaster
Nepal must keep water on its land
Our ancestors knew how to store monsoon runoff for year-round use, we must learn from them
Where is the monsoon this year?
Pic: MONIKA DEUPALAIn January 2018, Cape Town faced the possibility of executing a ‘Day Zero’ water plan: the city’s residents would have to…
Houseful
Pic: GORAKH BISTAKathmandu is bursting at the seams, there is almost no room left to move. A lesson from the 2015 earthquake was that survivors…
The vanishing land
Ratna Rani Newar does not know how much longer she can keep her vegetable farm in Thimi. Photos: TAYLOR MASONRatna Rani Newar grew up helping…
The stupa of a million dewdrops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW60CnUgR-IThree elderly people look up with wonder and reverence, palms pressed together at the Boudhanath…
Not so long ago
Photographs by: DANIEL W EDWARDS KATHMANDU-BHAKTAPUR TROLLEY BUS STOP 1975There are many photographs from the early 1900s that give us an idea…