The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze the impact of the built environment on crimes related to women in the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi through a pilot study with minimum responses. The objective of the study was to examine the built environment attributes affecting the crimes related to women in NCT of Delhi and to compare the very high crime rate areas vs very low crime rate areas as per the Delhi Police crime statistics to know the basic root cause of the incidence of crimes. The methodology adopted for the study is a structured questionnaire survey and statistical data analysis. The SPSS 23 statistical package is used for this study. A total of four wards (neighbour-hoods) were selected for the present study comprising two wards from very high crime and two wards from very low crime rate districts of Delhi and a total of 80 responses were collected for this pilot study. The findings of the study also validate the perception of the residents which confirm that the lack of desirable built environment facilities lead to high crime rate in the selected wards i.e. IP Extension and MayurVihar-II, whereas the availability of adequate desirable built environment facilities precedent of low rate of crime committed against women in the selected wards i.e. Pitam Pura and Shalimar Bagh. The future scope of the study is to undertake a comprehensive study of all the attributes of built environment impacting the crime rates against women in NCT of Delhi on the basis of structured questionnaire survey (the same questionnaire has been used for the pilot survey for 80 numbers of respondents) with a sample size of 450-500 to reduce the chances of error and to generalize the findings of the study.

Since the conception of the Agenda 2030, indicator based systems formulated as sustainability assessment tools on different scopes and geographical scales of urban development strive for ubiquitous application of the 17 SDGs globally. The execution of these goals in India as well are focused through formal assessment tools with standardized indicators of sustainability at various levels. However, semantic literature perusal and analysis of these tools show us a substantial lag towards their enactment as subordinates to one another and in promoting the effective translation of SDG targets as local level indicators among the pillars of sustainability. The study thus intends to abate the gap in existing literature focusing on sustainability issues of India and direct a discussion towards sculpturing the SDG indicators as core dimensions of city development plans than just as performance assessors of the cities.

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Home to one-fifth of the world's population, South Asian countries act as loci for interlinked sustainability issues owing to rapid urbanization. Given the context of formidable problems that threaten to overwhelm the region's cities and towns, the localization of SDG 11 has become desirable for sustainability. This paper reviews the literature encapsulating the progress of developing economies such as China, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia towards SDG 11 and intends to extract substantiated strategies adopted for comprehensive localization of the goal through certain examples. The results conglomerate key enablers such as inclusive institutional and financial environment, stakeholder engagement for the reorganization of people-centered resource flows, efficient data ecosystems to promote social innovation, and adaptive policy reform measures for generating cross-cutting innovative solutions. These enablers serve as the initial step for informing the essential parameters required to prepare the contextual framework of SDG 11 for Indian cities and induce a paradigm shift with informed policy decisionmaking at the city level.

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