Keep It Civil 116 - Density Matters!

Rachna Leveque, Urban Planner and doctoral student at UCL, joins us to talk about how density relates to governance and resilience in cities, with a special look at Mumbai. What exactly do planners mean when they talk about density, and why is it important? How are resilience and density linked? What can we learn from Mumbai's example? Follow Rachna ( and the UCL Centre for Urban Sustainability and Resilience ( on Twitter and find out more about USAR and their work ( Catch up on past episodes of Keep it Civil (soundcloud.com/cege_ucl/sets/keep-it-civil) Music: "Helix Nebula" by Anamanaguchi via CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 ( "Wallflower" by Plurabelle via CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (

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Keep It Civil 116 - Density Matters! is an episode from Keep it Civil - UCL Engineering Podcast by UCL CEGE Engineering.

This episode is 00:33:30 long.

This episode was published on Dec 2, 2015.

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