Thimphu: The City of Peace and Organic Development

Bhutan’s Dream City of Thimphu

“…As the gradual entry of consumerism and accumulation ideology in Thimphu’s socio-economic practices has increased competition over control of urban resources, particularly land and real estate, this has slowly intensified the disparities in urban socio-spatial structures. Sections of the city, like Motithang, continue to retain a tag of ‘locality of the elite and affluent suburb’, while Changzamtog predominantly houses lower-income groups (Misra et al, 2013; Norbu, 2008). One can visualise a new trend of spatially-related social identities in this urban setting, a common feature of many large cities of the world, as shown for Delhi by Dupont (2004) and Haque et al (2018).…”