When Shade Becomes Optional: How Urban Law Fails the City’s Hottest Bodies
Abstract The blog examines how Indian urban law addresses (or fails to address) extreme heat in cities. It argues that shade infrastructure, canopy cover, cooling shelters, and other heat-mitigation measures continue to be treated as amenities rather than essential urban infrastructure. Through an analysis of planning laws, building regulations, Heat Action Plans, and recent constitutional developments, the piece explores the legal implications of this classification and its disproportionate...
