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BOOK REVIEW: Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City
This review was originally written for a class I am taking with Prof. John Pucher here at Rutgers University. I am putting up this review here even though the book reviewed talks mainly about the...
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On expertise and public participation
It appears that the folks at the Lucknow Municipal Corporation have a curious notion of the meaning and purpose of public participation. When their funding proposals under the centrally sponsored...
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Models of parking provision in urban India
Mumbai’s parking policy gives builders FSI incentives to build public parking (source: indianurbaninfrastructure.com) It is incontestable that there is a shortage of parking in Indian cities. One only...
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How much more should we give up for parking?
I have written previously about parking spots replacing parks and playgrounds in cities like Bangalore and Chennai. Now we learn that even houses will be demolished and river beds covered up to make...
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Taming street-people: India’s grand civilizational project
A status message by a friend on Facebook has had me thinking for many weeks now. He wrote: Ranchi is an amazing city. In my first 30 minutes there, two schoolchildren, one bike rider and a goat tried...
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The choices we face
Even as we unite in our grief over the death of the anonymous victim of the now-famous Delhi rape case who died yesterday, I don’t think it is too early to be cognizant of the choices in front of us. …...
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