NEIGHBOURHOODS

PROBLEM STATEMENT
Urban development efforts often operate at macro scales—city or ward level—where interventions struggle to meaningfully reach individual households. As a result, residents remain disconnected from planning processes, infrastructure improvements fail to reflect lived realities, and impact is diluted. There is a critical gap between policy design and on-ground experience, particularly in how mobility, services, and public spaces are accessed within everyday neighbourhood life.

OUR APPROACH
PURVCA addresses this gap by adopting a neighbourhood-based approach as its core strategy. We define neighbourhoods as the immediate environments where people live—the scale at which daily life unfolds and where meaningful engagement with residents is possible. By going a step beyond administrative units such as wards, we focus directly on households and communities as primary stakeholders and beneficiaries.

These neighbourhoods will not function in isolation. Instead, they will be treated as interconnected systems, linked through mobility corridors, major bus routes, and broader city networks. This ensures that while interventions are locally grounded, they remain aligned with city-wide planning and infrastructure systems.

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