In Delhi—a city of 17 million people—7.2 million residents already qualified for food aid before the pandemic. After, the numbers skyrocketed.
Gautam Bhan
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). 
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 ...